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JOURNAL 

O  R 

HISTORICAL     ACCOUNT 

OF       THE 

LIFE,   TRAVELS,   SUFFERINGS,   CHRISTIAN  EXPERIENCES, 

AND 

LABOUR    OF    LOVE, 
IN     THE     WORK     OF     THE     MINISTRY, 

or       THAT 

ANCIENT,    EMINENT,    AND    FAITHFUL    SERVANT   OF 
JESUS     CHRIST, 

GEORGE      FOX. 


THE     FOURTH     EDITION,     CORRECTED. 

IN   TWO    VOLUMES. 


VOL.    II. 


And  they  that  turn  many  to  Righteoufnefs  fhall  fhine  as  the  Stars  for  ever  and  ever. 

Dan.  xii.  i. 


N  E  W  -  Y  O  R  K: 

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1800, 


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JOURNAL 


HISTORICAL      ACCOUNT 


or      THE 


LIFE,   TRAVELS,    SUFFERINGS, 


GEORGE       FOX, 


THIS  year  feveral  friends  were  moved  to  go  beyond 
fea,  to  publifti  truth  in  foreign  countries.  John 
Stubbs,  Henry  Fell,  and  Richard  Coihop  were  moved  to 
go  towards  China  and  Prefter  John's  country  ;  but  no 
mafters  of  fliips  would  carry  them.  With  much  ado  they 
got  a  warrant  from  the  king;  but  the  Eail-India  company 
found  ways  to  avoid  it,  and  the  mafters  of  their  (hips  would 
not  carry  them.  Then  they  went  into  Holland,  hopmg  to 
have  got  paflfage  there ;  but  no  paffage  could  they  get  there 
neither.  Then  John  Stubbs  and  Henry  Fell  took  fhipping 
for  Alexandria  in  Egypt,  intending  to  go  by  the  caravans 
from  thence.  Meanwhile  Daniel  Baker  being  to  go  to 
Smyrna,  drew  Richard  Coftrop,  contrary  to  his  own  iree- 
dom,  along  with  them  ;  and  in  the  pafl'agc,  Richard  falling 
fick,  D.  Baker  left  him  fick  in  the  fliip;  where  he  died:  but 
that  hard-hearted  man  afterwards  loft  his  own  condition. 

John  Stubbs  and  Henry  Fell  got  to  Alexandria;  bi.^t 
they  had  not  been  long  there  before  the  Englifh  conlui 
baniftied  them  from  thence;  yet  before  they  came  away, 
they  difperfcd  many  books  and  papers  for  the  opening  the 
principles  and  way  of  truth  to  the  Turks  and  Grecians. 

Vol,   XL  a  2 


4  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1661 

They  gave  the  book  called,  '  The  Pope's  ftrength  broken/ 
to  an  old  friar,  for  hirri  to  give  or  fend  to  the  pope ;  which 
book,  when  the  friar  had  perufed,  he  clapped  his  hand  up^ 
on  his   breaft,  and  confeffed,   '  What  was  written  therein 

*  was  truth  ;  but,'  faid  he,  '  if  I  ftiould  confefs  it  openly, 
'  they  would  burn  me.'  John  Stubbs  and  Henry  Fell,  not 
being  fuffered  to  go  farther,  returned  to  England,  and  came 
to  London  again.  John  had  "a  vifion  that  the  Englifh  and 
Dutch,  who  had  joined  together  not  to  carry  them,  '  would 
'  fall  out  one  with  the  other.'     And  fo  it  came  to  pafs. 

Having  ftaid  in  London  fome  time,  I  felt  drawmgs  to 
vifit  friends  in  Elfex.  I  went  to  Colclieller,  where  I  had 
very  large  meetings,  and  from  thence  to  Coggefhall ;  not 
far  from  which  there  was  a  prieft  convinced,  and  I  had  a 
meeting  at  his  houfe.  So  travelling  a  little  in  thofe  parts, 
vifiting  friends  in  their  meetings,  I  returned  pretty  quickly 
to  London,  where  I  found  great  fervice  for  the  Lord ;  for 
a  large  door  was  opened,  many  flocked  in  to  our  meetings, 
and  the  Lord's  truth  fpread  mightily  this  year.  Yet  friends 
had  great  travail  and  fore  labour,  the  rude  people  having 
been  lo  heightened  by  the  Monarchy-men's  rifing  a  little 
before.  But  the  Lord's  power  v/as  over  all,  and  in  it  friends 
had  dominion  ;  though  we  had  not  cnly  thofe  fufferings 
without,  but  fuiferings  within  alfo,  by  John  Perrot  and  his 
company  ;  who  giving  heed  to  a  fpirit  of  delufion,  fought 
to  introduce  among  friends  that  evil  and  uncomely  practice 
of  '  keeping  on  the  hat  in  the  time  of  publick  prayers.' 
Friends  had  Ipoken  to  him  and  divers  of  his  followers  about 
it,  and  I  had  written  to  them  concerning  it;  but  he  and 
fome  others  rather  ftrengthened  themfelves  againft  us. 
Wherefore  feeling  the  judgment  of  truth  rife  againft  it,  I 
gave  forth  the  following  lines,  as  a  warning  to  all  concerned 
therein. 

WHOSOEVER  is  tainted  with  this  fpirit  of  John 
Perrot,  it  will  perifli.      Mark  theirs  and  his  end, 

*  that  are  turned  into  thofe  outward  things  and  janglings 
'  about  them,  and  i^hat  which  is  not  favoury  ;   all   which  is 

*  for  perpetual  judgment,  and  is  to  be  fwept  and  cleanfed 
'  out  of  the  camp  of  God's  elecl;.  This  is  to  that  fpirit  that 
'  is  gone  into  jangling  about  that  which  is  below  (the  rotten 
'  principle  of  the  old  Ranters)  gone  horn  the  invilible  pow- 
'  er  of  God,  in  which  is  the  everlailiug  fellowfliip ;  fo  ma- 
<  nv  arc  become  like  the  com  on  the  hpufc-top,   and  likq 


i66i]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  $ 

*  the  untimely  figs,  who  now  clamour  and  fpealc  againft 
<  them  that  are  in  the  power  of  God.  Oh  !  confitler !  the 
'  light  and  power  of  God  goes  over  you  all,  and  leaves  you 
«  in  the  fretting  nature,  out  of  the  unity  which  is  in  the 
'  everlafling  light,  life,  and  power  of  God.      Confider  this 

*  before  the  day  be  gone  from  )'ou,  and  take  heed  that  your 

*  memorial  be  not  rooted  out  from  among  the  righteous. 

'  G.  F.' 

Among  the  exercifes  and  troubles  that  friends  had  from 
without,  one  was  concerning  friends  marriages,  which  fome- 
times  were  called  in  queftion.  In  this  year  there  happened 
to  be  a  caufe  tried  at  the  affize  at  Nottingham  concerning  a 
friend's  marriage.  The  cafe  was  thus  :  Some  years  before 
two  friends  were  joined  together  in  marriage  amongft  friends, 
and  lived  together  as  man  and  wife  about  two  years.  Then 
the  man  died,  leaving  his  wife  with  child,  and  leaving  an 
eflate  in  lands  of  copyhold.  When  the  woman  was  deli- 
vered, the  jury  prefented  the  child  heir  to  its  father's  lands, 
and  accordingly  the  child  was  admitted  ;  afterwards  another 
friend  married  the  widow.  And  after  that,  a  perfon  near  of 
kin  to  her  former  hufband,  brought  his  aftion  againfl  the 
friend  who  had  laft  married  her,  endeavouring  to  difpoiFefs 
them,  and  deprive  the  child  of  the  inheritance,  and  to  pof- 
fefs  himfeif  thereof,  as  next  heir  to  the  woman's  firfl  huf- 
band. To  effecl  this,  he  endeavoured  to  prove  the  child 
illegitimate,  alleging,  '  The  marriage  was  not  according  to 
^  law.'  In  opening  the  caufe,  the  plaintiff's  counfei  ufed 
unfeemly  words  concerning  friends,  laying,  '  they  went  to- 
'  gether  hke  brute  beafts,'  with  other  ill  expreffions.  After 
the  counfei  on  both  fides  had  pleaded,  the  judge,  (viz.  judge 
Archer)  took  the  matter  in  hand,  and  opened  it  to  them, 
telling   them,    '  There   was    a    marriage   in  paradife   when 

•  Adam  took  Eve,  and  Eve  took  Adam,  and  that  it  was  the 
'  confent  of  the  parties  that  made  a  marriage.      And  for  the 

•  Quakers  (he  faid)  he  did  not  know  their  opinions ;  but  he 
'■  did  not  believe  they  went  together  as  brute  beafts,  as  had 

•  been  faid  of  them,  but  as  Chriftians ;  and  therefore  he  did 
'■  believe  the^marriage  was  lawful,  and  the  child  lawful  heir.' 
The  better  to  latisfy  the  jury,  he  brought  them  a  cnle  to 
(his  purpofe,     '  A  man  that  was  weak  of  body,  and  kept 

■  his  bed,  had  a  defire  in  that  condition  to  marry,  and  did- 

■  declare  before  witheffes,  that  he  did  take  fuch  a  woman  to 

•  be  his  wife,  aud  the  woman  declared  that  flie  took  that 


T 


6  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  r,66z 

*  man  to  be  her  hufband.  This  marriage  was  afterwards 
'  called  in  queftion,  (and  as  the  judge  faid)  all  the  bifhops 
I  did  conclude  it  to  be  a  lawful  marriage.'  Hereupon  the 
jury  gave  in  their  verdia  for  the  friend's  child  againft  the 
man  that  would  have  deprived  it  of  its  inheritance. 

About  this  time  the  oaths  of  aliegiancfe  and  fupremacy 
were  tendered  to  friends  as  a  fnare,  becaufe  it  was  known 
we  could  not  ftvear,  and  thereupon  many  were  imprifoned, 
and  divers  premunired.  Upon  that  occafion  friends  pub- 
liflied  in  pnnt,  '  The  grounds  and  reafons  why  they  refufed 

*  to  i^A^ear;'  befides  which,  I  was  moved  to  give  forth  thefe 
few  lines  following,  to  be  given  to  the  magiftrates  : 

'HE  world  faith,  "  Kifs  the  book;"  but  the  book  faith, 
"  Ki!s  the  Son,  left  he  be  angry;"  and  the  Son 
'  faith,  "  Swear  not  at  all ;"  but  keep  to  Yea  and  Nay  in 
'  all  your  communication ;  for  whatibever  is  more  than  this 
'  coraeth  of  evil.  Again,  the  world  faith,  "  Lay  your  hand 
"  on  the  book;"  but  the  book  faith,  "  Handle  the  word;" 

*  and  the  word  faith,  "  Handle  not  the  traditions,"  nor  the 

*  inventions,  nor  the  rudiments  of  the  world.     And  God 

*  faith,   ''  This  is  my  beloved  Son,  hear  him ;"  who  is  the 

*  life,  the  truth,  the  light,  and  the  way  to  God. 

'  G.  f: 

Abundance  of  friends  being  in  prifon,  Richard  Hubber- 
thorn  and  I  drew  up  a  paper  concerning  them ;  and  got  it 
delivered  to  the  king,  that  he  might  underftand  how  we 
were  dealt  with  by  his  oflicers.     It  was  direfted  thus  : 

\^    To  the  KING. 

FRIEND,  who  art  the  chief  ruler  of  thefe  dominions, 
here  is  a  lift  of  fome  of  the  fufFeiings  of  the  people  of 
'  God,  in  fcorn  called  Quakers,  that  have  fufFercd  under  the 
'  changeable  powers  before  thee,  by  whom  there  have  been 
'  impriloned,  and  under  whom  tjiere  have  fuffered  for  good 
'  confcience-fake,  and  for  bearing  teftimony  to  the  truth, 
'  as  it  is  in  Jefus,  "  three  thoufand  one  hundred  feventy- 
"  three  perfons ;"   and  there  lie  yet  in  prifon  in  the  name 

*  of  the  commonwealth,   "  feventy-three  perfons,"  that  we 

*  know  of.  And  there  have  died  in  prifon,  in  the  time  of 
<  the  commonwealth,  aftd  of  Oliver  and  Richard,  the  pro- 
'  tedors,  through  cruel  and  hard  impnlonments,  upon  naftj 


i662]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  7 

*  draw  and  in  dungeons,  "  thirty-two  perfons."  There 
'  have  been  alfo  impiifoned  in  thy  name,  fincc  thy  arrival, 
'  by  Inch  as  tliought  to  ingratiate  themfelves  thereby  with 
'  thee,  "  three  thcufand  lixty  and  eight  perfons."  Befides 
'  this,  our  meetings  are  daily  broken  up  by  men  with  clubs 
'  and  arms  (though  we  meet  peaceably,  according  to  the 
'  praftice  of  God's  people  in  the  primitive  times)  our  friends 

*  are  throvirn  into  waters,  and  trod  upon  till  the  very  blood 
«  gufheth   out  of  them ;    the  number  of  which  abufes  can. 

*  hardly  be  uttered.      Now  this  we  would  have  of  thee,  to 

*  fet  them  at  liberty  that  lie  in  prifon  in  the  names  of  the 
'  commonwealth  and  of  the  two  protectors,  and  them  that 
'  lie  in  thy  own  name,  for  fpeaking  the  truth,  and  for  a  good/ 
'  confcience-fake,  who  have  not  lifted  up  an  hand  againft 
'  thee  nor  any  man ;  and  that  the  meetings  of  our  friends, 
'  who  meet  peaceably  together  in  the  fear  of  God  to  wor- 

*  fhip  him,  ^piay  not  be  broken  up  by  rude  people,   with 

*  their  clubs,  fwords,  and  (laves.  One  of  the  grcateil  things 
'  that  we  have  fufFered  for  formerly,  was  becaufe  we  could 

*  not  fwear  to  the  prote6lors  and  all  the  changeable  govern- 
'  ments ;    and  now  we  are  imprifoned  becauie  we  cannot 

*  take  the  c^th  of  allegiance.  Now,  if  Yea  be  Yea,  and 
'  Nay  Nay,  to  thee,  and  to  all  men  upon  the  earth,  let  us 
'  fuffer  as  much  for  breaking  of  that  as  others  do  for  break- 
'  ing  an  oath.  We  have  fuffered  thefe  many  years  both  in 
'  lives  and  eflates  under  thefe  changeable  governments,  be- 
'  caufe  we  cannot  fwear,  but  obey  Chrill's  dotlrine,  who 
'  commands  "  we  Ihould  not  fwear  at  all,"  Tvlatth.  v.  James 
•'  v.  and  this  we  feal  with  our  lives  and  eftates,   with  our 

Yea  and  Nay,  according  to  the  doctrine  of  Chrift.     He 


Lear- 


'  ken  to  thefe  things,  and  fo  confider  them  in  the  wifdoin 
'  of  thy  God,  that  by  it  fuch  adions  may  be  flopped ;  thou 
'  that  haft  the  government,  and  may '"ft  do  it.  We  dclu'e 
'  all  that  are  in  prifon  may  be  fet  at  liberty,  and  that  for 
'  the  time  to  come  they  may  not  be  imprilbned  for  con- 
'  fcience  and  for  the  truth's  fake.  If  thou  queftion  the  in- 
'  nocency  of  their  fuff"erings,  let  them  and  their  accufers  be 
'  brought  before  thee,  and  we  fhnll  produce  a  more  particu- 
'  lar  and  full  account  of  their  fufF'-nng'i,  if  required. 

'  G.  F.  &  R.  H.' 

I  mentioned  before,  that  in  the  year  1650  I  was  kept  pri- 
Ibnsr  iix  montiiS  in  tlie  houfc  of  correriiuii  al   D<frbv,  and 


8  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [16O2 

that  the  keeper  of  the  prifon,  being  a  cruel  man,  and  had 
dealt  very  wickedly  by  me,  was  fmitten  himfelf,  the  plagues 
and  tenors  of  the  Lord  falling  upon  him  becaufe  thereof:- 
this  man,  being  afterwards  convinced  of  truth,  wrote  me 
the  following  letter. 


HAVING  fuch  a  convenient  melTenger,  I   c 
no  leis  than  give  thee  an  account  of  my  pre! 


Dear  friend, 

could  do 
^fent  con- 
dition :  remembering,  that  to  the  firfl  awakening  of  me  to 
'  a  (Qn[e  of  life,  and  of  the  inward  principle,  God  was  pleaf- 
'  ed  to  make  ufe  of  thee  as  an  inftrument.  So  that  fome- 
'  times  I  am  taken  with  admiration  that  it  fhould  come  by 
'  fuch  a  means  as  it  did  ;  that  is  to  fay,  that  Providence 
'  fhould  order  thee  to  be  my  prifoner,  to  give  me  my  firfl 
'  real  fight  of  the  truth.  It  makes  me  many  times  to  think 
'  of  the  gaoler's  converfion  by  the  apoftles.  Oh !  happy 
'  George  Fox!  that  firfl  breathed  that  breath  of  life  within 

*  the  walls  of  my  habitation  !  Notwithflanding  my  outward 
'  loffes  are  fince  that  time  fuch  that  I  am  become  nothing  in 

*  the  world,  yet  I  hope  I  Ihall  find  that  all  thefe  light'  af- 

*  flidions,  which  are  but  for  a  moment,  will  wjDrk  for  me  a 
'  far  more  exceeding  and  eternal  weight  of  glory.  They 
'  have  taken  all  from  me ;  and  now,  inflead  of  keeping  a 
'  prifon,  I  am  rather  waiting  when  I  fhall  become  a  prifon- 
'  er  myfeif.  Pray  for  me,  that  my  faith  fail  not,  and  that  I 
'  may  hold  out  to  the  death,  that  I  may  receive  a  crown  of 
'  life.      I  earneflly  defire  to  hear  from  thee,  and  of  thy  con- 

*  dition,  which  would  very  much  rejoice  me.  Not  having 
'  elfe  at  prefent,  but  my  kind  love  unto  thee  and  all  Chrif- 

*  tian  friends  with  thee,  in  hafle,  I  reft  thine  in  Chrift  Jefus, 

*  Thomas  Sharman.' 
'  Derby,  the  2  2d  of  the 
*  4th  month,   1662.' 

There  were  two  of  our  friends  in  prifon  in  the  inquifi- 
tion  at  Malta,  both  women ;  Catherine  Evans  and  Sarah 
Chevers.  I  was  told  that  one  called  the  Lord  D'Aubeny 
could  procure  their  liberty  ;  wherefore  I  went  to  him  :  and 
having  informed  him  concerning  their  imprifonment,  defir- 
ed  him  to  write  to  the  magiftrates  there  for  their  releafe.  He 
readily  f)romifcd  me  he  would  ;  and  laid,  '  If  I  would  come 
'  again  within  a  month  he  would  acquaint  me  of  their  dif- 
'  charge.'     I  went  again  about  that  time,  and  he  faid,  '  He 


11562]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  9 

'  thought  his  letters  hadmifcarried,  becaufe  he  had  received 
•  *  no  anfwer.'  But  he  prpmifed  he  would  write  again,  and 
►  did  fo  ;  whereupon  they  were  fet  at  liberty. 

With  this  great  man  I  had  a  great  deal  of  reafoning 
about  religion,  and  he  confefled  that  '  Chrifl  hath  eniight- 
'  ened  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world  with  his  ipiri- 

*  tual  light ;  that  he  had  tailed  death  for  every  man :  that 
'  the  Grace  of  God,  which  brings  falvation,  hath  appeared 

*  to  ail  men  ;  and  that  it  would  teach  them,  and  bring  their 
'  falvation,  if  they  did  obey  it.'  I  aiked  him,  What  would 
they  (the  Papifls)  do  with  all  their  relicks  and  images,  if 
they  Ihould  own  and  believe  in  this  light,  and  receive  the 
grace  to  teach  them  and  bring  their  falvation  ?  He  faid, 
'  Thofe  things  were  but  policies  to  keep  people  in  fubjec- 
'  tion,'  Very  free  he  was  in  difcourfe.  I  never  heard  a 
Papift  confefs  fo  much  as  he  did.  Tho'  feveral  about  the 
court  began  to  grow  kind  to  friends,  yet  the  perfecution  was 
very  hot,  and  feveral  friends  died  in  prifon.  Whereupon  I 
gave  forth  a  little  paper  concerning  the  grounds  and  rife  of 
peffecution ;  which  was  thus  : 

*  ALL  the  fuflPerings  of  the  people  of  God  in  all  ages 

*  XJl  were  becaufe  they  could  not  join  to  the  national  re- 

*  ligions  and  worfhips  which  men  have  made  and  fet  up, 
'  and  becaufe  they  would  not  forfake  God's  religion  and  his 
'  worfhip  which  he  had  fet  up.  You  may  fee  through  all 
'  chronicles  and  hiftories,  that  the  priells  joined  with  the 
'  powers  of  the  nations  ;  the  magillrates,  footh-fayers,  and 
'  fortune-tellers,  all  joined  againft  the  people  of  God,  and 
'  did  imagine  vain  things  ag.  'nil  them  in  their  councils. 
'  When  the  Jews  did  wickedly,  they  turned  againil  Mofes  ; 
'  when  the  Jewifh  kings  tranlgrcired  the  law  of  God,  they 
•'  perfccuted  the  prophets  ;  as  may  be  feen  in  the, prophets 
'  writings.  When  Chrift,  the  fubftance,  came,  the  Jews 
'  perfccuted  Chrill,  his  apoflles,  and  difciples.  And  v/hen 
'  the  Jews  had  not  power  enough  of  themfelves  to  perfecute 
'  anfvverable  to  their  wijls,  then  they  got  the  heathen  Gen- 
'  tiles  to  help  them  againfl  Chrift,  and  againfl  his  apoflles 
'  and  difciples,  v.'ho  were  in  the  Spirit  and  power  of  Chrift. 

'  G.  f: 

After  I  had  made  fome  ftay  in  London,  and  had  cleared 
mylelfof  what  lay  upon  me  there,  I  went  into  the  country, 
having  with  me  Alexander  Parker  and  John  Stubbs,     We 

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.10  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1662 

travelled  through  the  country,  vifiting  friends  meetings,  tilF 
we  came  to  Bnltol.  There  we  underftood,  that  the  officers 
were  likely  to  come  and  break  up  the  meeting ;  yet  on  firft-  • 
day  we  went  to  the  meeting  at  Broad-mead,  and  Alexander 
Parker  (landing  up.  firll,  while  he  was  fpeaking,  the  officers 
came  and  took  him  away.  After  he  was  gone,  I  flood  up 
and  declared  the  everl ailing  truth  of  the  Lord  God  in  his 
eternal  power,  which  came  over  all,  and  the  meeting  was 
quiet  the  reft  of  the  time^  and  broke  up  peaceably.  I  tarried 
till  fii  ft-day  following,  vifiting  friends,  and  being  vifited  by 
friends.  On  firll-day  morning  feveral  friends  came  to  Ed- 
\\*ard  Pyot's  (where  I  lay  the  night  before)  and  ufed  endea- 
vours to  perfuade  me  not  to  go  to  the  meeting  that  day ; 
for  the  magi  Urates  had  threatened  to  take  me,  and  had  raif- 
ed  the  trained-bands.  I  wiilied  them  to  gO  to  the  meeting, 
not  telling  them  what  I  intended  to  do ;  but  I  told  Edward 
Pyot  I  intended  to  go,  and  he  fent  his  Ion  to  ffiew  me  the 
way  from  his  houfe  by  the  fields.  As  I  went  I  met  divers 
friends,  who  did  what  they  could  to  ftop  me :  '  What,' 
laid   one,   '  wilt  thou  go   into    the   mouth   of   the   beaft  ?' 

*  Wilt  thou  go  into  the  mouth  of  the  dragon?'  faid  another. 
I  put  them  by  and  went  on.  When  I  came  to  the  meet- 
ing, Margaret  Thomas  was  fpeaking.  When  Ihe  had  done, 
I  flood  up.  I  faw  a  concern  and  fear  upon  friends  for  me ; 
but  the  power  of  the  Lord,  in  which  I  declared,  foon  ftruck 
the  fear  out  ©f  them.  Life  fprang,  and  an  heavenly  glori- 
ous meeting  we  had.  After  1  had.  cleared  myfeif  of  what 
was  upon  me  from  the  Lord  to  the  meeting,  I  was  moved 
to  pray,  and  after  prayer  to  ftand  up  again,  and  tell  friends, 
'  Now  they  might  fee  there  ^as  a  God  in  Ifrael  that  could 
'  deliver/  A  very  large  meeting  this  was,  and  very  hot ; 
but  truth  was  over  all,  and  the  life  was  exalted  which  car- 
ried through  all,  and  the  meeting  broke  up  in  peace.  The 
officers  and  fqldiers  had  been  breaking  up  another  meeting, 
which  had  taken  up  their  time ;  lb  that  our  meeting  was 
ended  before  they  came.  But  I  underllood  afterwards  they 
were  in  a  grec^t  rage,  bccaufe  they  had  miffed  me ;  for  they 
\vere  heard  to  fay  one  to  another  before,  '  I'll  warrant  we 

*  fhall  have  him  /  but  the  Lord  prevented  them.  I  went 
to  Joan  Hily's,  where  many  friends  came  to  fee  me;  re- 
joicing and  bleffing  God  for  our  deliverance.  In  the  even- 
ing L  had  a  fine  frefli  meeting  at  a  friend's  houfe  over  the 
water,  where  we  were  much  refrefhed  in  the  Lord.  After 
this  I  llaid  mo  ft  part  of  that  week  in  Briftol,  and  at  Ed- 


i662]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  ii 

ward  Pyot's.  Edward  was  brought  fo  low  and  weak  with 
an  ague,  that  when  I  firft  came  he  was  looked  upon  as  a 
dying  man  ;  but  it  pleafed  the  Lord  to  raife  him  up  again, 
fo  that,  before  I  went  away,  his  ague  left  him,  and  he  was 
finely  well. 

Having  been  two  firft-days  at  the  meeting  at  Broad- 
mead,  and  feeling  my  fpirit  clear  of  Briflol,  I  went  next 
firfl-day  to  a  meeting  in  the  country  not  far  diflant.  And 
after  the  meeting,  fome  friends  from  Briftol  told  me,  the 
foldiers  that  day  had  befet  the  meeting-houfe  round  at  Brif- 
tol, and  then  went  up,  faying,  '  They  would  be  fure  to 
'  have  me  now ;'  but  when  they  found  me  not  there,  they 
were  in  a  great  rage,  and  kept  friends  in  the  meeting-houfe 
moft  part  of  the  day  before  they  would  let  them  go  home ; 
and  queried  of  them,   '  Which  way  I  was  gone,   and  hoxv 

*  they  might  fend  after  me  ?     For  the  mayor,'   they  faid, 

*  would  fain  have  fpoken  with  me.'  I  had  a  vifion  of  a 
great  maftifF  dog,  that  would  have  bit  me ;  but  I  put  one 
hand  above  his  jaws,  and  the  other  hand  below,  and  tore 
his  jaws  in  pieces.  So  the  Lord  by  his  power  tore  their 
power  to  pieces,  and  made  way  for  me  to  efcape  them. 
Then  I  pafled  through  the  country,  vifiting  friends  in  Wilt- 
(hire  and  Berkfhire,  till  1  came  to  London,  having  great 
meetings  amongft  friends  as  I  went.  The  Lord's  power 
was  over  all,  and  a  bleffed  time  it  was  for  the  fpreading  of 
his  glorious  truth.  It  was  indeed  the  immediate  power  oi" 
the  Lord  that  prefcrved  me  out  of  their  hands  at  BriftoJ, 
and  over  the  heads  of  all  our  perfecutors ;  and  the  Lord 
alone  is  worthy  of  all  the  glory,  who  did  uphold  and  pre- 
ferve  for  his  name  and  truth's  fake. 

At  London  I  ftaid  not  long,  being  drawn  in  fpirit  to 
vifit  friends  northward  as  far  as  Leicefterfiiire.  John  Stubbs. 
was  with  me.  We  travelled  down,  having  meetmgs  amongft 
friends  as  we  went ;  and  at  Skegby  we  had  a  great  meet- 
ing. Thv^nce  we  came  to  Barnet-hills,  where  lived  captain 
Brown,  a  Baptift,  whofe  wife  was  convinced  of  truth.  This 
captain  Brown,  after  the  a6i;  for  '  breaking  up  meetmgs' 
came  forth,  being  afraid  his  wife  fhould  go  to  meetings,  ?.nd 
be  call  into  prifon,  left  his  houfe  at  Barrow,  and  took  a  place 
on  thefe  hills,  faying,  '  His  wife  Oiould  not  go  to  pnfon.' 
And  this  being  a  free  place,  many  prieRs  and  others  fled 
thither  as  well  as  he.  But  he,'  who  would  neither  (land  to 
truth  himfelf  nor  fulFer  his  wife,  was  in  this  place,  where 
he  thought  himfelf  fafe,  found  out  by  the  Lord,  whofe  hind 

li    2 


12  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [i66x 

fell  heavy  upon  him  for  his  unfaithfulnefs  •  fo  that  he  was 
forely  plagued,  and  grievoufly  judged  in  himfelf  for  flying 
and  drawing  his  wife  into  that  private  place.  We  went  to 
fee  his  wife,  and  being  in  the  houfe,  I  alkcd  him,  how  he 
did  ?     '  How  do  I  !'  faid  he,   '  The  plaguCvS  and  vengeance 

*  of  God  are  upon  me,  a  runagate,  a  Cain  as  I  am.      God 

*  may  look  for  a  witnefs  for  me,  and  fuch  as  me ;  for  if  all 

*  were  not  faithfuller  than  I,  God  would  have  no  witnefs 
'  left  in  the  earth.'  In  this  condition  he  lived  on  bread  and 
water,  and  thought  it  was  too  good  lor  him.  At  length  he 
got  home  again  with  his  wife  to  his  own  houfe  at  Barrow, 
where  afterwards  he  was  convinced  of  God's  eternal  truth, 
and  died  in  it.  A  little  before  his  death  he  faid,  '  Though 
'  he  had  not  borne  a  teflimony  for  truth  in  his  life,  he 
^  would  bear  a  teftimony  in  his  death,  and  would  be  buried 

*  in  his  orchard  ;'  and  was  fo.  He  was  an  example  to  all 
the  flying  Baptifls  in  the  time  of  perfecution,  who  could 
not  bear  perfecution  themfelves,  yet  perfecuted  us  when 
they  had  power. 

From  Barnet-hiils  we  came  to  Swanington,  in  Leicefl:er- 
fhire,  where  William  Smith  and  fome  other  friends  vifited 
me ;  but  went  away  towards  night,  leaving  me  at  a  friend's 
houfe  in  Swanington.  At  night,  as  I  was  fitting  in  the 
hall,  fpeaking  to  a  widow-woman  and  her  daughter,  lord 
Beaumont  came  with  a  company  of  foldiers,  who,  flapping 
their  fwords  on  the  door,  rufhed  into  the  houfe  with  fwords 
and  piflols  in  their  hands,  crying,   '  Put  out  the  candles, 

*  and  make  fad  the  doors.'  Then  they  feized  upon  the 
friends  in  the  houfe,  and  afked,  '  If  there  were  no  more 
'  about  the  houfe  ?'  The  friends  told  them,  there  was  one 
man  more  in  the  hall.  There  being  fome  friends  out  of 
Derbyfhire,  one  of  them  was  named  Thomas  Fauks ;  lord 
Beaumont,  after  he  had  afked  all  their  names,  bid  his  man 
fet  down  that  man's  name  Thomas  Fox.  The  friend  faid, 
Nay,  his  name  was  not  Fox,  but  Fauks.  In  the  mean 
time  fome  of  the  foldiers  came,  and  fetched  me  out  of  the 
hall  to  him.  He  afked  my  name.  I  told  him  my  name 
was  George  Fox,  and  that  I  was  well  knov/n  by  that  name. 
'  Aye,'  faid  he,  '  you  are  known  all  the  world  over.'  I 
faid,  I  was  known  for  no  hurt,  but  for  good.  Then  he  put 
his  hands  into  my  pockets  to  fearch  them,  and  plucked  out 
rny  qomb-cafe,  and  afterwards  commanded  one  of  his  offi- 
pcrs  to  fearch  farther  for  letters.  I  told  him,  I  was  no  let- 
ter-carjicr,  and  afl^ed  him,   Why  he  came  arnonf^ll  a  peac^r 


1662]  GEORGE    FOX'a    JOURNAL.  13 

able  people  with  fwords  and  piftols,  without  a  conflable, 
contrary  to  the  king's  proclamation  and  to  the  late  a6l  ? 
For  he  could  not  fay,  there  was  a  meeting,  I  being  only 
talking  with  a  poor  widow-woman  and  her  daughter.  By 
reafoning  thus  with  him,  he  came  lomewhat  down ;  yet 
lending  for  the  conflabies.  he  gave  them  charge  of  us  that 
ni^ht,  and  to  brin^  us  before  him  next  mornino^.  Accord- 
ingly  the  eonftables  fet  a  watch  of  the  town's  people  upon 
us  that  night,  and  had  us  next  morning  to  his  houfe  about 
a  mile  from  Swanington.  When  we  came  before  him,  he 
told  us,  '  We  met  contrary  to  the  Acl.'  I  dehred  him  to 
fhew  us  the  a6l.  '  W^hy,'  fays  he,  '  you  have  it  in  your 
*  pocket.'  I  told  him,  he  did  not  find  us  in  a  meeting. 
Then  he  afked,  '  Whether  we  would  take  the  oaths  of  alle- 
'  glance  and  fupremacy  ?'  I  told  him,  I  never  took  any 
oath  in  my  life,  nor  engagement,  nor  the  covenant.  Yet 
flill  he  would  force  the  oath  upon  us.  I  defired  him  to 
fhew  us  the  oath,  that  we  might  fee  whether  we  were  the 
perfons  it  was  to  be  tendered  to,  and  whether  it  was  not  for 
the  difcovery  of  popilh  recufants.  At  length  he  brought  a 
little  book,  but  we  called  for  the  ftatute-book.  He  would 
not  Ihew  us  that,  but  caufed  a  mittimus  to  be  made,  which 
mentioned,  '  That  we  were  to  have  had  a  meeting.'  With 
this  mittimus  he  delivered  us  to  the  eonftables  to  convey  us 
to  Leiceiler  gaol.  But  when  the  eonftables  had  brouorht 
us  back  to  Swanington,  being  harveft-time,  it  was  hard  to 
get  any  body  to  go  with  us.  The  people  were  loth  to  take 
their  neighbours  to  prifon,  efpecially  in  fuch  a  bufy  time. 
They  would  have  given  us  our  mittimus  to  have  carried 
ourfelves  to  the  gaol ;  for  it  had  been  ufual  for  eonftables 
to  give  friends  their  own  mittimufes,  and  they  have  gone 
themfelves  with  them  to  the  gaoler.  But  we  told  them, 
though  our  friends  had  fometimes  done  fo.  we  v.-ould  not 
take  this  mittimus ;  but  fome  of  them  fhouid  go  with  us  to 
the  gaol.  At  laft  they  hired  a  poor  labouring  man,  who 
was  loth  to  go,  though  hired.  So  we  rode  to  Leicefter, 
being  five  in  number;  fome  carried  their  bibles  open  in 
their  hands,  declaring  truth  to  the  people  as  we  rode  in  the 
fields  and  through  the  towns,  and  telling  them,  '  We  were 
'  prifoners  of  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  going  to  fuffer  bonds 
'  for  his  name  and  truth  fake.'  One  woman  friend  carried 
her  wheel  on  her  lap  to  fpin  on  in  prifon,  and  the  people 
were  mightily  aff^efted.  At  Leicefter  we  went  to  an  inn. 
The  maimer  of  the  houfe  feemed  to  be  troubled  that  \v§ 


>4  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ['662 

fhonld  go  to  prifon  ;  and  being  himfelf  in  commiflion,  he 
ient  for  lawyers  ia  the  town  to  advife  with,  and  would  have 
taken  up  the  mittimus,  and  kept  us  in  his  own  houfe,  and 
not  have  let  us  gone  into  the  gaol.  But  I  told  friends,  it 
would  be  great  charge  to  lie  at  an  inn,  many  friends  and 
people  v/ould  come  to  vifit  us,  and  it  might  be  hard  for 
him  to  bear  meetings  in  his  houfe:  befides,  we  had  many 
friends  in  the  prifon  already,  and  we  had  rather  be  with 
them.  So  we  let  the  man  know  we  were  fenfible  of  his 
kindnefs,  and  to  prifon  we  went;  the  poor  man  that  brought 
lis  thither  delivering  both  the  mittimus  and  us  to  the  gaoler. 
This  gaoler  had  been  a  very  wicked,  cruel  man.  Six  or 
feven  friends  being  in  prifon  before  we  came,  he  had  taken 
fome  occafion  to  quarrel  with  them,  and  had  thrufl  them 
into  the  dungeon  amongfl  felons,  where  was  hardly  room 
for  them  to  lie  down.  We  ftaid  all  that  day  in  the  prifon- 
yard,  and  defired  the  gaoler  to  let  us  have  fome«ftraw.  He 
furlily  anfwered,  '  You  do  not  look  like  men  that  would 
'  lie  on  ftraw.'  After  awhile  William  Smith  came  to  me, 
and  being  acquainted  in  the  houfe,  I  afked  him.  What 
rooms  were  in  the  houle,  and  what  rooms  friends  had  been 
iifuaily  put  in  before  they  were  put  into  the  dungeon  ?  I 
afked  him  alfo,  Whether  the  gaoler  or  his  wife  was  mafter  ? 
He  faid,  The  wife  was  mafler;  and  though  fhe  was  lame, 
and  fate  moflly  in  her  chair,  not  being  able  to  go  but  on 
crutches,  yet  llie  would  beat  her  hufband  when  he  came 
within  her  reach,  if  he  did  not  as  flie  would  have  him.  I 
confidered  that  many  friends  might  probably  come  to  vifit 
us,  and  if  we  had  a  room  to  ourfelves,  it  would  be  better 
for  them  to  fpeak  to  me,  and  for  me  to  fpeak  to  them  in, 
as  there  fliould  be  occafion.  Wherefore  I  defired  William 
Smith  to  fpeak  with  the  woman,  and  acquaint  her,  if  fhe 
■would  let  us  have  a  room,  fufFer  our  friends  to  come  out 
of  the  dungeon,  and  leave  it  to  us  to  give  her  what  we 
would,  it  might  be  better  for  her.  He  went,  and  after  fome 
reafoning  with  her  ihe  confented;  and  we  were  had  into 
a  room.  Then  we  were  told,  The  gaoler  would  not  .fufFer 
us  to  have  any  drink  out  of  the  town  into  the  prifon,  but 
what  beer  we  drank  v/e  muft  take  of  him,  I  told  them,  I 
would  remedy  that  if  they  would  ;  for  we  would  get  a  pail 
of  water,  and  a  little  wormwood  once  a  day,  and  that  might 
ferve  us  ;  fo  wc  iliould  have  none  of  his  beer,  and  the  water 
he  co'ild  not  deny  us. 

Iklore  we  came,  when  thofc  few  friends  that  v\^erc  pri- 


i662]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL,  15 

foners  met  together  on  firft-days,  if  any  of  them  was  moved 
to  pray  to  the  Lord,  the  gaoler  would  come  up  with  his 
quarter-ftafF  in  his  hand,  and  his  mailitF-dog  at  his  heels, 
and  pluck  them  down  by  the  hair  of  the  head,  and  ftrike 
them  with  his  ftafF;  but  when  he  (truck  friends,  the  maltiff- 
dog,  inflead  of  falhng  upon  them,  would  take  the  flaff  out 
of  his  hand.  When  firft-day  came,  I  fpoke  to  one  of  my 
fellow-prifoners  to  carry  a  ftool  and  fet  it  in  the  yard,  and 
give  notice  to  the  debtors  and  felons  that  there  would  be  a 
meeting  in  the  yard,  and  they  that  would  hear  the  word  of 
the  Lord  declared  might  come  thither.  So  the  prifoners 
gathered  in  the  yard,  and  we  went  down  and  had  a  very- 
precious  meeting,  the  gaoler  not  meddling.  Thus  every 
firft-day  we  had  a  meeting  as  long  as  we  ftaid  in  prifon, 
and  feveral  came  out  of  the  town  and  country.  Many  were 
convinced,  and  fome  received  the  Lord's  truth  there,  who 
ftood  faithfui  witnelTes  for  it  ever  fince. 

When  the  feffions  came,  we  were  brought  before  the  juf- 
tices,  with  more  friends,  to  the  num.ber  of  about  twenty. 
Being  brought  into  the  court,  the  gaoler  put  us  in  the  place 
■where  the  thieves  were,  and  fome  of  the  juftices  began  to 
tender  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy  to  us.  I  told 
them,  I  never  took  any  oath  in  my  life ;  and  they  knew  we 
could  not  fwear,  becaufe  Chrift  and  his  apoftle  forbad  it : 
therefore  they  put  it  but  as  a  fnare  to  us.  We  told  them, 
if  they  could  prove,  that  after  Chrift  and  the  apoftle  had 
forbid  fwearing,  they  did  ever  command  Chriftians  to  fwear, 
we  would  take  thefe  oaths ;  otherwife  we  were  refolved  to 
obey  Chrift's  command  and  the  apoftle's  exhortation.  They 
faid,  '  We  muft  take  the  oath,  that  we  might  manifeft  our 
'  allegiance  to  the  king.'  I  told  them,  I  had  been  formerly 
fent  prifoner  by  col.  Hacker  from  that  town  to  London, 
ui«ler  pretence  that  I  held  meetings  to  plot  to  bring  in 
king  Charles.  I  alfo  defired  them  to  read  our  mittimus, 
which  fet  forth  the  caufe  of  our  commitment  to  be,  that 
•  we  were  to  have  a  meeting ;'  and  I  faid,  lord  Beaumont 
could  not  by  that  ad  fend  us  to  gaol,  unlefs  we  had  been 
taken  at  a  meeting,  and  found  to  be  fuch  perlbns  as  the  a6l 
fpeaks  of;  therefore  we  defired  they  would  read  the  mitti- 
mus, and  fee  how  wrongfully  wc  were  imprifoned.  They 
would  not  take  notice  of  the  mittimus;  but  called  a  jury, 
and  indifted  us  '  for  refufing  to  take  the  oaths  of  allegiance 
'  and  fupremacy."  When  the  jury  was  fworn  and  inftruct- 
ed.  as  tbey  were  ^oing  cut.  one  who  had  been  an  alderman. 


16  GEORGE    fOX's    JOURNAL.  £166^ 

of  the  city  bid  them,  '  Have  a  good  confcience ;'  and  one 
ot"  the  jury,  being  a  peevifh  man,  told  the  juftices,  there  was 
one  affronted  the  jury  ;  whereupon  they  called  him  up,  and 
tendered  him  the  oath  alfo,  which  he  took. 

While  we  were  Handing  where  the  thieves  ufed  to  (land, 
a  cut-purfe  had  his  hand  in  feveral  friends  pockets.  Friends 
declared  it  to  the  juftices,  and  (hewed  them  the  man.  They 
called  him  up  before  them,  and  upon  examination  he  could 
not  deny  it ;  yet  they  fet  him  at  liberty. 

It  ivas  not  long  before  the  jury  returned,  and  brought  us 
in  guilty ;  and  after  fome  words,  the  juftices  whifpered  to- 
gether, and  bid  the  gaoler  take  us  td  prifon  again ;  but  the 
Lord's  power  was  over  them,  and  his  everlafting  truth, 
which  we  declared  boldly  amongft  them.  There  being  a 
great  concourfe  of  people,  moft  of  them  followed  us  ;  fo 
that  the  crier  and  bailiffs  were  fain  to  call  the  people  back 
again  to  the  court.  We  declared  the  truth  as  we  went  along 
the  ftreets,  till  we  came  to  the  gaol,  the  ftreets  being  full  of 
people.  When  we  were  in  our  chamber  again,  after  fome 
time  the  gaoler  came  to  us,  and  defired  all  to  go  forth  that 
were  notprifoners.  When  they  were  gone,  he  faid,  '  Gen- 
'  tlemen,  it  is  the  court's  plcafure  that  ye  fliould  be  fet  at 
'  liberty,  except  thofe  that  are  in  for  tithes :  and  you  know 
'  there  are  fees  due  to  me  ;  but  I  ftiall  leave  it  to  you  to 
'  give  me  what  you  will/ 

Thus  we  were  all  fet  at  liberty  on  a  fudden,  and  paffed 
every  one  into  our  fervices.  Leonard  Fell  went  with  mc 
again  to  Swanington.  I  had  a  letter  from  lord  Haftings, 
who  hearing  of  my  imprifonment  had  wrote  from  London  to 
the  juftices  of  the  feflions  to  fet  me  at  liberty.  I  had  not 
delivered  this  letter  to  the  juftices  ;  but  whether  they  had 
any  knowledge  of  his  mind  from  any  other  hand,  which 
made  them  difcharge  us  fo  fuddenly,  I  know  not.  But  this 
letter  I  carried  to  lord  Beaumont,  who  fent  us  to  prifon ; 
and  when  he  had  broke  it  open  and  read  it,  he  feemed  much 
troubled ;  but  at  laft  came  a  little  lower ;  yet  threatened  us, 
if  we  had  any  more  meetings  at  Swanington,  he  would  break 
them  up  and  fend  us  to  prifon  again.  But  notwithftanding 
his  threats  we  went  to  Swanington,  and  had  a  meeting  with 
friends  there,  and  he  neither  came  nor  fent  to  break  it  up. 

From  Swanington  we  came  to  Twy-crofs,  where  that 
great  man  formerly  mentioned,  whom  the  Lord  raifed  up 
from  his  licknefs  in  the  year  1649  (^vhofe  fcrving-man  came 
at  me  with  a  drawn  iWord  to  have  done  me  a  mifchief)  and 


ii562]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  17 

his  wife  c.ime  to  fee  me.  From  thence  we  travelled  through 
Warwickfhire,  where  we  had  brave  meetings ;  and  into 
Northamptonfhire  and  Bedfordlhire,  vifiting  friends  till  we 
came  to  London. 

I  ftaid  not  long  in  London,  but  went  into  Eflfex,  and  fo 
to  Norfolk,  having  great  meetings.  At  Norwich,  when  I 
came  to  captain  Lawrence's,  there  was  a  great  threatening  of 
difturbance ;  but  the  meeting  was  quiet.  Faffing  from 
thence  to  Sutton,  and  into  Cambridgelhire,  I  heard  of  Ed- 
ward Burrough's  deceafe.  And  being  fenfible  how  great  a 
grief  and  exercife  it  would  be  to  hiends  to  part  with  him,  I 
wrote  the  following  lines  for  the  flaying  and  fettling  of  their 
minds. 

'  Friends, 

BE  flill  and  quiet  in  your  own  conditions,  arid  fettled  in 
the  f<5ed  of  God,  that  doth  not  change ;  that  in  that 
ye  may  feel  dear  E.  B.  among  you  in  the  feed,  in  which 
and  by  which  he  begat  you  to  God,  with  whom  he  is  ;  and 
that  in  the  feed  ye  may  all  fee  and  feel  him,  in  which  is 
the  unity  with  him  in  the  life ;  and  fo  enjoy  him  in  the 
life  that  doth  not  change,  which  is  invifible.' 

'  G.  f: 

From  thence  I  paffed  to  Little-port  and  the  I  fie  of  Ely  ; 
where  one  that  had  been  the  mayor,  with  his  wife,  and  the 
wife  of  the  then  prefent  mayor  of  Cambridge,  came  to  the 
meeting.  Travelling  into  Lincolnfhire  and  Huntingdon- 
iliire,  I  came  to  Thomas  Parnel's,  where  the  mayor  of  Hun- 
tingdon came  to  fee  me,  and  was  very  loving.  From  thence 
I  came  into  the  Fen-country,  where  we  had  large  and  quiet 
meetings.  While  I  was  in  that  country,  there  came  fo  great 
a  flood,  that  it  was  dangerous  to  go  out ;  yet  we  did  get  out, 
and  went  to  Lynn,  where  we  had  a  bleffed  meeting.  Next 
morning  1  went  to  vifit  fome  prifoners  there  ;  then  back  to 
the  inn,  and  took  horfe.  As  I  was  riding  out  of  the  yard, 
the  officers  came  to  fearch  the  inn  for  me.  I  knew  nothing 
ot  it  then,  only  I  felt  a  great  burden  come  upon  me  as  I 
rode  out  of  the  town,  till  I  was  got  without  the  gates.  When 
fome  friends  that  came  after  overtook  me,  they  told  me  their 
officers  had  been  fearching  for  me  in  the  inn,  as  foon  as  I 
was  gone  out  of  the  yard.  So  by  the  good  hand  of  the 
Lord  1  efcaped  their  cruel  hands.  Alter  this  we  pafTtd 
through    the   countries,  vifiting  fritnds    in  their  meetin^js* 

Vol.   II.  c 


k8  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1662 

The  Lord's  power  carried  us  over  the  perfecuting  fpirits, 
and  through  many  dangers ;  and  his  truth  fpread  and  grew, 
and  friends  were  ellabhihed  therein  :  praifes  and  glory  to  his 
name  for  ever ! 

Having  pafled  through  Norfolk,  Suffolk,  Effex,  and 
Hertfordlhire,  we  came  to  London  again ;  where  I  ftaid 
awhile,  vifiting  friends  in  their  meetings,  which  were  very 
large,  and  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all.  After  fome  time 
I  left  the  city,  and  travelled  into  Kent,  having  Thomas 
Briggs  with  me.  We  went  to  Aftjford,  where  we  had  a  qui- 
et and  a  very  blefled  meeting.  On  firft-day  we  had  a  very 
good  and  peaceable  meeting  at  Cranbrook.  Then  we  went 
to  Tenterden,  and  had  a  meeting  there,  to  which  friends 
came  from  feveral  parts;  and  many  other  people  came  in 
and  were  reached  by  the  truth.  When  the  meeting  was 
done,  I  walked  with  Thomas  Briggs  into  a  clofe,  while  our 
horfes  were  getting  ready  ;  and  turning  my  head,  I  efpied  a 
captain  coming,  and  a  great  company  of  foldiers  with  light- 
ed matches  and  mufkets.  Some  of  the  foldiers  came  to  Tho- 
mas and  me,  and  faid,  '  We  mud  go  to  their  captain.' 
When  they  had  brought  us  before  him,  he  afked,  '  Where 
'  was  George  Fox  ?  Which  was  he  ?  I  faid,  '  I  am  the  man.' 
'  Then  he  came  to  me,  and  was  fomewhat  ftruck,  and  faid, 
'  I  will  fecure  you  among  the  foldiers.'  So  he  called  for 
the  foldiers  to  take  me.  Then  he  took  Thomas  Briggs  and 
the  man  of  the  houfe,  with  many  more  ;  but  the  power  of 
the  Lord  was  mightily  over  them  all.  Then  he  came  to  me 
again,  and  faid,  '  I  muft  go  along  with  him  to  the  town  ;' 
and  he  carried  himfelf  pretty  civilly,  bidding  the  foldiers 
bring  the  reft  after.  As  we  walked,  I  afked  him,  '  Why 
'  they  did  thus  ?  for  I  had  not  feen  fo  much  ado  a  great 
'  while  ;'  and  I  bid  him  be  civil  to  his  peaceable  neighbours. 
When  we  were  come  to  the  town,  they  had  us  to  an  inn 
that  was  the  gaoler's  houfe.  After  awhile  the  mayor  of 
the  town,  this  captain,  and  the  lieutenant,  who  were  jufti- 
ces,  came  together  and  examined  me,  '  Why  I  came  thither 
*  to  make  a  difturbance  ?'  I  told  them,  I  did  not  come  to 
make  a  difturbance,  neither  had  I  made  any  difturbance 
lince  I  came.  They  faid,  *  There  was  a  law  againft  the 
'  Quakers  meetings^  made  only  againft  them.'  I  told  them, 
I  knev»r  no  fuch  law.  Then  they  brought  the  a6t  made 
againft  Quakers  and  others.  I  told  them,  that  was  againft 
fuch  as  were  a  '  terror  to  the  king's  fubjefts,  who  were  ene- 
'  mies,  and  held,  principles  dangerous  to  the  government/ 


i662]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  19 

and  therefore  it  was  not  againfl  us,  for  we  held  the  truth  j 
our  principles  were  not  dangerous,  and  our  meetings  were 
peaceable,  as  they  knew,  who  knew  their  neighbours  were  a 
peaceable  people.     They  told  me,   '  I  was  an  enemy  to  the 

*  king.'  I  anfwcred,  We  loved  all  people,  were  enemies 
to  none,  and  that  1  had  been  cafl  into  Derby  dungeon  about 
the  time  of  Worcefter  fight,  becaufe  I  would  not  take  up 
arms  againfl  him ;  and  that  I  Was  afterwards  brought  by 
colonel  Hacker  to  London,  as  a  plotter  to  bring  in  king 
Charles,  and  was  kept  prifoner  at  London  till  I  was  fet  at 
liberty  by  Oliver,      They  ailced   me,   '  Whether  I  was  im- 

*  prifoned  in  the  time  of  the  infurreftion  ?'  I  faid.  Yes  ; 
I  had  been  imprifoned  then  and  fince,  and  had  been  fet  at 
liberty  by  the  king's  own  Command.  I  opened  the  aft  to 
them,  fhewed  them  the  king's  late  declaration,  gave  them 
the  examples  of  other  juflice?,  and  told  them  alio  what  the 
houfe  of  lords  had  faid  of  it.  I  fpoke  alfo  to  them  con- 
cerning their  own  conditions,  exhorting  them  to  live  in  the 
fear  of  God,  to  be  tender  towards-  their  neighbours  that  fear- 
ed God,  and  to  mind  God'§  wifdom.by  which  all  things 
were  made  and  created,  that  jthey  might  come  to  receive  it, 
be  ordered  by  it,  and  by  it  'order  all  things  to  Grid's  glory. 
They  demanded  bond  of  us  for  pur  appearance  at  the  fef- 
fions;  but  we,  pleading  our  innocency,  refufed  to  give  bond. 
Then  they  would  have  us  promile  to  come  no  more  there ; 
but  we  kept  clear  of  that  alfo.  When  they  law  they  could 
not  bring  us  to  their  terrns,  they  told  us,  '  We  lliould  fee 
'  rhey  were  civil  to  us,  for  it  was  the  mayor's  plcafur^  we 

*  fhould  all  be  fet  at  liberty.'  I  told  them,  their  civility 
was  noble ;  and  fo  we  parted. 

Leaving  Tenterden,  v/e  went  to  Ncwick  in  SufTcx,  where 
we  vifited  fome  friends.  From  thence  we  pafied  through 
the  country,  vifiting  friends,  and  having  great  meetings ;  ail 
quiet  and  free  from  difturbance  (except  by  forae  jangling 
Baptiftsj  till  we  came  into  Hampfliire.  Where,  after  a  good 
meeting  at  Southampton,  we  went  to  Pulner,  in  the  parilh 
of  Rii}gwood,  where  was  tp  be  a  monthly  meeting  next 
day,  to  which  many  friends  reforted  from  Southampton, 
Pool,  and  other  places;  and  the  weather  being  very  hot, 
fome  came  pretty  early  in  the  morning.  I  took  a  friend, 
and  walked  out  with  him  into  the  orchard,  enquiring  of 
him  how  the  affairs  of  truth  flood  araongft  them?  (Eor 
many  of  them  had  been  convinced  by  me  before  I  was  pri- 
ioner  in  Cornvvall.j  While  we  were  dircpurling,  a  young 
c  2 


2©  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1662 

man  came  and  told  us  the  trained  bands  were  raifing,  and 
he  heard  they  would  break  up  the  meeting.  It  was  not 
yet  meeting-time  by  about  three  hours,  and  there  being 
other  friends  walking  in  the  orchard,  the  friend  I  was  dif- 
courfmg  with  before  defned  nie  to  walk  into  a  corn-field 
adjoining  to  it,  which  we  did.  After  awhile,  the  young 
man  that  fpoke  of  the  trained  bands  left  us,  and  when  he 
was  gone  a  pretty  way  he  flood  and  waved  his  hat.  Where- 
upon I  fpoke  to  the  other  young  man  that  was  with  me  to 
go  fee  what  he  meant.  Pie  went,  but  came  not  to  me 
again,  for  the  foldiers  were  come  into  the  orchard.  As  I 
kept  walking  I  could  fee  the  foldiers,  and  fome  of  them,  as 
I  heard  afterwards,  did  fee  me,  but  had  no  mind  to  meddle. 
So  the  foldiers  coming  fo  long  before  meeting-time,  did  not 
tarry;  but  took  what  friends  they  found  at  the  houfe,  and 
fome  they  met  in  the  lane,  and  had  them  away.  After  they 
were  gone,  it  drew  towards  the  eleventh  hour,  friends  began 
to  come  in  apace,  and  a  large  and  glorious  meeting  we  had ; 
for  the  everlafting  feed  of  God  was  fet  over  all,  and  the  peo- 
ple were  fettled  in  the  new  covenant  of  life,  upon  the  foun- 
dation Chrifl;  jefus.  Towards  the  latter  end  of  the  meeting 
there  came  a  man  in  gay  apparel,  and  looked  in  while  I  u-as 
declaring,  and  went  away  again  prefently.  This  man  came 
with  an  evil  intent ;  for  he  went '  forthwith  to  Ringwood, 
and  told  the  magiftrates,  '  That  they  had  taken  two  or  three 

•  men  at  Pulner,  and  had  left  George  Fox  there  preaching 

*  t^wo  or  three  hundred.'  Upon  this  the  magiftrates  fent 
the  officers  and  foldiers  again  ;  but  the  meeting  being  near 
iended  when  the  man  looked  in.  and  he  having  about  a  mile 
and  a  half  to  go  with  liis  information  to  fetch  the  foldiers, 
and  they  as  far  to  come  after  they  had  received  their  orders, 
before  they  came  our  meeting  was  over;  ending  about  the 
third  hour  peaceably  and  orderly.  After  the  meeting,  I 
fpoke  to  the  friends  of  the  houfe  where  this  was  held  (the 
woman  of  the  houfe  then  lying  dead  in  the  houfe)  and  then 
fome  friends  led  me  to  another  friend's  at  a  little  diftance  ; 
where  after  we  had  refrefhed  oiM-fehes,  I  took  horfe,  having 

about   twenty  miles    to  ride   that  afternoon  to  one 

Frye's,  in  Wiltftiire,  where  a  meeting  was  appointed  to  be 
held  the  next  day. 

After  we  were  gone,  the  officers  and  foldiers  came  in  a 
great  heat,  who  finding  they  had  milfed  their  prey  were 
much  enraged ;  and  the  officers  were  offended  with  the  fol- 
^licrs,  bec4ufc  they  had  not  feized  my  horfe  in  the  flable 


1663]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ji 

the  firft  time  they  came.  But  the  Lord,  by  his  good  pro- 
vidence, delivered  me,  and  prevented  their  mifchievous  de- 
fign.  For  the  officers  were  envious  men,  and  had  an  evil 
mind  againft  friends ;  but  the  Lord  brought  his  judgments 
upon  them,  fo  that  it  was  taken  notice  of  by  their  neigh- 
bours. For  '  as  before  they  were  wealthy  men,  after  this 
'  their  eftates  wafted  away;  and  John  Line,  the  conftable, 
^  who  was  not  only  very  forward  in  putting  on  the  foldiers 
^  to  take  friends,  but  alfo  carried  thofe  that  were  taken  to 
^  prifon,  and  took  a  falfe  oath  againft   them  at  the  affize, 

*  upon  which  they  were  fined  and  continued  prifoners,  was 
'  a  fad  fpeftacle  to  behold.    For  his  flefti  rotting  away  while 

*  he  lived,  he  died  in  a  very  miferable  condition,  wiihing  he 
'  had  never  meddled  with  the  Quakers,  and  confefting  he 
'  never  profpered  fmce  he  had  an  hand  in  perfecuting  them; 
'  and  that  he  thought  the  hand  of  the  Lord  was  againft  him 

*  for  it.' 

At  — Frye's  in  Wiltfliire  we  had  a  very  blefted  meet- 
ing, and  quiet,  though  the  officers  purpofed  to  have  broken 
it  up,  and  were  on  their  way  in  order  thereunto.  But  be- 
fore they  were  got  to  the  meeting,  word  was  brought  them, 
■  There  was  a  houfe  newly  broken  up  by  thieves,  and  they 

*  were  required  to  go  back  again  with  fpeed  to  fearch  after 

*  and  purfue  them  ;'  by  which  means  our  meeting  efcaped 
difturbance,  and  we  were  preferved  out  of  their  hands. 

We  pafted  through  Wiltfhire  into  Dorfetftiire,  having 
large  and  good  meetings.  The  Lord's  everlafting  power 
was  with  us,  and  carried  us  over  all ;  in  which  we  founded 
forth  his  faving  truth  and  word  of  life,  which  many  gladly 
received.  Thus  we  vifited  friends  till  we  came  to  Topfliam, 
in  Devonftiire,  travelling  fome  weeks  eight  or  nine  fcore 
miles  a  week,  and  had  meetings  every  day.  At  Topftiam 
we  met  with  Margaret  Fell  and  two  of  her  daughters,  Sa- 
rah and  Mary,  and  with  Leonard  Fell  and  Thomas  Salt- 
houfe.  From  thence  we  palTed  to  Totnefs,  where  we  vifjted 
fome  friends,  and  then  to  Kingfbridge,  and  to  Henry  Pol- 
lexfen's,  who  had  been  an  ancient  juftice  of  peace.  There 
we  had  a  large  meeting.  This  old  juftice  accompanied  us 
to  Plymouth,  and  into  Cornwall,  to  juftice  Porter's,  and 
from  thence  to  Thomas  Mount's,  where  we  had  a  large 
meeting.  After  which  we  went  to  Humphry  Lower's, 
where  alfo  we  had  a  large  meeting ;  and  from  thence  to 
Loveday  Hambley's,  where  we  had  a  general  meeting  for 
^he  whole  country  :  and  all  was  quiet. 


22  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1663 

A  little  before  this,  Jofeph  Hellen,  and  G.  Bewley  had 
been  at  Loo  to  vifit  Blanch  Pops,  a  Ranting  woman,  un- 
der pretence  to  convince  and  convert  her;  but  before  they 
left  her,  fhe  had  fo  darkened  them  with  her  principles,  that 
they  feemed  to  be  like  her  difciples,  efpecially  Jofeph  Hel- 
len. She  afked  them,  '  Who  made  the  devil  ?  Did  not 
'  (jod  ?'  This  idle  queftion  fo  puzzled  them,  they  could 
not  anfwer  her.  They  afterwards  afked  me  the  queftion. 
I  told  them,  No ;  for  all  that  God  made  was  good  and  was 
bled,  fo  was  not  the  devil.  He  was  called  a  ferpcnt  before 
he  wii^  called  a  devil  and  an  adverfary,  and  then  he  had 
the  title  of  de\'il  given  him.  Afterwards  he  was  called  a 
dragon,  bccaufe  he  was  a  deftroyer.  The  devil  abode  not 
in  the  truth  :  by  departing  from  the  truth  he  became  a  de- 
vil. So  the  Jews,  when  they  went  out  of  the  truth,  were 
faid  to  be  ol  the  devil,  and  were  called  ferpents.  There  is 
no  promife  of  God  to  tlie  devil,  that  ever  he  fliall  return 
into  truth  again  ;  but  to  man  and  woman,  who  have  been 
deceived  by  him,  the  promife  of  God  is,  that  '  The  feed  of 
'  the  woman  fhail  bruife  the  ferpent's  head ;'  fhall  break  his 
power  and  (Irength  to  pieces.  When  thefe  things  were 
opened  more  at  large  to  the  fatisfaclion  of  friends,  thofe  two, 
who  had  let  up  the  fpirit  of  that  ranting  woman,  were 
judged  by  the  truth;  and  one  of  them,  viz.  Jofeph  Hellen, 
ran  quite  out,  and  was  denied  by  friends  ;  but  George 
Bewly  was  recovered,  and  afterwards  became  ferviceable. 

We  palfed  from  Loveday  Hambley's  to  Francis  Hodges's, 
near  Falmouth  and  Penryn,  where  we  had  a  large  meeting. 
From  thence  we  went  to  Helftone  that  night,  where  friends 
came  to  vifit  us,  and  next  day  paffed  to  Thomas  Teage's, 
where  we  had  a  large  meeting,  at  which  many  were  con- 
vinced. 1  was  led  to  open  '  the  date  of  the  church  in  the 
'  primitive  times,  the  Rate  of  the  church  in  the  wildernefs, 

*  the  flate  of  the  iali'e  church  that  v/as  got  up  lince ;  and  to 
'  fliew,  that  now  the  everlafting  gofpel  was  preached  over 
'  the    head   of  the  whore,  beaft,  ialfe   prophets,  and  anti- 

*  chriils,  which  had  rofe  up  fince  the  apoftles  days;  and 
'  now  the  ever! ailing  gofpel  was  received  and  receiving, 
'  which  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light,  that  they 
'  might  fee  over  the  devil  who  had  darkened  them.'  The 
people  received  the  gofpel  and  the  word  of  life  gladly,  and 
a  glorious  bleired  meeting  we  had  for  the  exalting  the  Lord's 
everlaPiing  truth  and  his  name.  After  it  was  done  I  walked 
out,  and  coming  in  iigain,    I   heard  a  noifein  the  court. 


1663]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  23 

Approaching  nearer,  I  found  the  man  of  the  houfe  fpealcing 
to  the  tinners  and  others,  teUing  them,  It  was  the  '  over- 
'  lading  truth  that  had  been  declared  there  that  day  ;'  and 
the  people  generally  confeifed  to  it. 

From  thence  we  palled  to  the  Land's-end  to  John  Ellis's, 
where  we  had  a  precious  meeting.  Here  was  a  fifherrnan, 
Nicholas  Jofe,  that  was  convinced.  He  fpoke  in  meetings, 
and  declared  the  truth  amongft  the  people  ;  and  the  Lord's 
power  was  over  all.  I  was  glad  the  Lord  raifed  up  his 
flandard  in  thofe  dark  parts  of  the  nation,  where  fmce  there 
is  a  fine  meeting  of  honeft-hearted  friends  ;  man}'  are.  come 
to  fit  under  Chrifl's  teaching,  and  a  great  people  the  Lord 
will  have  in  that  country. 

From  thence  we  returned  to  Redruth,  and  the  next  dav 
to  Truro,  where  we  had  a  meeting.  Next  morning,  fome 
of  the  chief  of  the  town  defired  to  fpeak  with  me,  amongft 
whom  was  colonel  Roufe.  I  went,  and  had  a  great  deal 
of  difcourfe  with  them  concerning  the  things  of  God.  In 
their  reafoning  they  faid,  '  The  gofpel  was  the  four  books 
'  of  Matthew,  Mark,  Luke,  and  John;'  and  they  called  it 
natural.  I  told  them,  the  gofpel  was  the  power  of  God, 
which  was  preached  before  Matthev/,  Mark,  Luke,  or  John 
were  written ;  and  it  was  preached  to  every  creature  fof 
which  a  great  part  might  never  fee  nor  hear  of  thofe  four 
books)  fo  that  every  creature  was  to  obey  the  power  of  God ; 
for  Chriil,  the  Spiritual  Man,  would  judge  the  world  ac- 
cording to  the  gofpel,  that  is,  according  to  his  invifible 
power.  When  they  heard  this,  they  could  not  gainfay  ; 
for  the  truth  came  over  them.  I  dirctlcd  them  to  their 
teacher,  the  grace  of  Gqd,  and  fhewed  them  the  fufficiency 
of  it,  which  vv^ouid  teach  them  how  to  live,  and  what  to 
deny;  and  being  obeyed  would  bring  them  falvation.  So 
to  that  grace  I  recommended  them,  and  left  them. 

Then  we  returned  through  the  country,  vifiting  friends, 
and  had  meetings  at  Hum.phrey  Lower's  and  Thomas 
Mount's.  Afterwards  at  George  Hawkins's  at  Stolce  we 
had  a  large  meeting,  to  which  friends  came  from  Lancefton 
and  feveral  other  places.  A  living,  precious  meeting  it 
was,  in  which  the  Lord's  prefence  and  power  was  richly 
manifefted  amongft  us,  and  I  left  friends  there  under  the 
Lord  Jefus  ChrilVs  teaching. 

'  In  Cornwall  I  was  informed  there  was  one  colonel  Ro- 

*  binfon,  a  very  wicked  man.   who  after  the  king  came  in 

•  was  made  a  juftice  pf  peace,  and  became  a  cruel  perfvi- 


H  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  [i66j 

'  cutor  of  friends  ;  of  whom  he  fent  many  to  prifon.     Plear- 

*  ing  they  had  Tome  little  liberty,  through  the  favour  of  the 
'  gaoler,    to   go   home  fometimes   to   vifit   their  wives  and 

*  children,  he  made  great  complaint  thereof  to  the  judge  at 
'  the  aflize  againft  the  gaoler :  whereupon  the  gaoler  was 
«  fined  an  hundred  marks,  and  friends  were  kept  very  flrift- 
'  ly  up  for  awhile.  After  he  was  come  home  from  the  af- 
'  fize,  he  fent  to  a  neighbouring  juftice  to  delire  him  to  go 
'  a  fanatick-hunting  with  him.  He  fent  his  man  about 
'  with  his  horfes,  and  walked  himfelf  on  foot  from  his  dwel- 
'  ling-houfe  to  a  tenement  where  his  cows  and  dairy  were 
'  kept,  and  where  his  fervants  were  then  milking.  When 
«  he  came  there,  he  alked  for  his  bull.  The  fervant-maids 
'  faid,  They  had  fhut  him  into  the  field  becaufe  he  was  un- 
'  ruly,  and  hindered  their  milking.     Then  went  he  into  the 

*  field  to  the  bull ;  and  having  formerly  accuftomed  himfelf 
'  to  play  with  him,  he  began  to  fence  at  him  with  his  ftafF. 
'  But  the  bull  fnuffed  at  him,  and  palled  a  little  back;  then 

*  turning  upon  him  again,  ran  fiercely  at  him,  and  ftruck 
'  his  horn  into  his    thigh,  and  heaving  him  upon  his  horn, 

*  threw  him  over  his  back,  and  tore  up  his  thigh  to  his  belly. 
'  When  he  came  to  the  ground  again  he  gored  him  with  his 
'  horns,  run  them  into  the  ground  in  his  rage  and  violence, 
'  and  roared,  and  licked  up  his  mailer's  blood.  The  maid- 
'  fervant,  hearing  her  mafter  cry  out,  ran  into  the  field,  and 
'  took  the  bull  by  the  horns  to  pull  him  ofF  from  her  mailer. 
'  The  bull,  without  hurting  her,  put  her  gently  by  with  his 

*  horns,  but  ftill  fell  to  goring  of  him,  and  licking  up  his 
'  blood.  Then  fhe  ran,  and  got  fome  men  that  were  at 
'  work  not  far  off,  to  come  and  refcue  her  mafter ;  but  they 
'  could  not  at  all  beat  off  the  bull,  till  they  brought  maftiff- 
'  dogs  to  fet  on  him ;  and  then  he  fled  in  great  rage  and  fu- 
'  ry.  Upon  notice  of  it  his  fifter  came,  and  faid  to  him, 
"  Alack  !  brother,  what  a  heavy  judgment  is  this  that  is 
"  befallen  you  \"  He  anfwered,  "  Ah  !  fifter,  it  is  an  hea- 
*'  vy  judgment  indeed."  Pray  let  the  bull  be  killed,  and 
'  the  flelh  given  to  the  poor,  faid  he.  They  carried  him 
'  home  ;  but  he  died  foon  after.  The  bull  was  grown  fo 
'  fierce,  they  were  forced  to  fhoot  him  with  guns ;  for  no 
'  man  durft  come  near  to  kill  him.  Thus  does  the  Lord 
'  fometimes  make  examples  of  his  juft  judgment  upon  the 
'  perfecutors  of  his  people,  that  others  may  fear,  and  learn 
'  to  beware/ 

After  I  had  cleared   myfelf  of  Cornwall,  and   Thomas 


1663]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  25 

Lower  had  brought  us  over  Horfe-bridge  into  Devonfliire 
again,  we  took  our  leave  of  him.  Thomas  Briggs,  Robert 
Widders,  and  I  came  to  Tiverton.  It  being  their  fair- 
time,  and  many  friends  there,  we  had  a  meeting  amongft 
them;  and  the  magiftrates  gathered  in  the  ftreet,  but  the 
Lord's  power  flopped  them.  I  faw  them  over  againft  the 
door  ;  but  they  had  not  power  to  come  in  to  meddle  with 
us,  thovigh  they  had  will  enough  to  have  done  it. 

After  the  meeting  we  paffed  to  Collumpton  and  Wel- 
lington ;  for  we  had  appointed  a  meeting  five  miles  off, 
where  we  had  a  large  one  at  a  butcher's  houfe,  and  a  blef- 
fed  meeting  it  was.  The  people  were  direfled  to  their 
Teacher,  the  Grace  of  God,  which  would  bring  them 
falvation,  and  many  were  fettled  under  its  teaching.  The 
Lord's  prefence  was  amongft  us,  and  we  were  refrefhed  in 
him,  in  whom  we  laboured  and  travailed ;  and  the  meeting 
was  quiet.  There  had  been  very  great  perfecution  in  that 
countiy,  and  in  that  town  a  little  before,  infomuch  that 
fome  friends  queftioned  the  peaceablenefs  of  our  meeting ; 
but  the  Lord's  power  chained  all,  and  his  glory  fhined  over 
all.  Friends  told  us,  how  they  had  broken  up  their  meet- 
ings by  warrants  from  the  juftices,  and  how  by  their  war- 
rants they  were  required  to  carry  friends  before  the  jufti- 
ces. The  friends  bid  them.  Carry  them  then.  The  officers 
told  them,  they  mufl  Go;  but  they  faid,  Nay,  that  was 
not  according  to  their  warrants,  which  required  them  to 
carry  them.  Then  they  were  forced  to  hire  carts,  waggons, 
and  horfes,  and  to  lift  them  into  their  waggons  and  carts  to 
carry  them  before  a  juftice.  When  they  came  to  a  jujflice's 
houfe,  fometimes  he  happened  to  be  from  home,  or  if  he 
was  a  moderate  man  he  would  get  out  of  the  way,  and 
then  they  were  obliged  to  carry  them  before  another;  fo 
that  they  were  many  days  carting  and  carrying  friends  up 
and  down  from  place  to  place.  And  when  afterwards  the 
officers  came  to  lay  their  charges  for  this  upon  the  town, 
the  town's  people  would  not  pay  it.  but  made  them  bear  it 
themfelves,  which  broke  the  neck  of  their  perfecution  there 
for  that  time.  The  like  was  done  in  feveral  otlier  places, 
till  the  officers  had  fhamed  and  tired  themfelves,  and  then 
were  glad  to  give  over. 

At  one  place  they  warned  friends  to  come  to  the  fteeplc- 
houfe.  Friends  met  to  conhder  of  it,  and  finding  freedom 
to  go,  they  met  together  there.  They  fate  dovvn  to  wait 
upon  the  Lord  in  his  power  and  Spirit,  and  minded  the 

Vol.   IL  d 


26  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1663 

Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  their  Teacher  and  Saviour ;  but  did  not 
mind  the  prieft.  When  the  officers  faw  that,  they  came  to 
them  to  put  them  out  of  the  fteeple-houfe  a^ain ;  but  the 
friends  told  them,  it  was  not  time  for  them  to  break  up  their 
meeting  yet.  Awhile  after,  when  the  prieft  had  done,  they 
came  to  the  friends  again,  and  would  have  had  them  go 
home  to  dinner;  but  the  friends  told  them,  they  did  not 
choofe  to  go  to  dinner,  they  were  feeding  upon  the  bread 
of  life.  So  there  they  fate,  waiting  upon  the  Lord,  and 
enjoying  his  power  and  prefence,  till  they  found  freedom 
in  themfelves  to  depart.  Thus  the  prieft's  people  were  of- 
fended, firft  becaufe  they  could  not  get  them  to  the  fteeple- 
houfe,  and  when  there,  they  were  offended,  becaufe  they 
could  not  get  them  out  again. 

P'rom  the  meeting  near  Collumpton  we  went  to  Taun- 
ton, where  we  had  a  large  meeting.  The  next  day  we  came 
to  a  general  meeting  in  Somerfetfliire,  which  was  very  large ; 
and  the  Lord's  everiafting  word  of  life  and  truth  was  largely 
declared.  The  people  were  refreftied  thereby,  and  fettled 
upon  Chrift,  their  Rock  and  Foundation,  and  brought  to 
fit  under  his  teaching  ;  and  the  meeting  was  peaceable. 
About  the  fecond  hour  of  the  night  came  a  company  of 
men,  knocked  at  the  door,  and  bid  open  it,  or  they  would 
break  it  open  ;  for  they  wanted  a  man  that  they  came  to 
fearch  the  houfe  for.  I  heard  the  noife,  and  got  up,  and 
faw  a  man  at  the  door  with  his  fword  by  his  fide.  When 
they  had  let  him  in,  he  came  into  the  chamber  where  I  was, 
and  looked  on  me,  and  faid,  '  You  are  not  the  man  I  look- 
'  ed  for ;'  and  went  his  way. 

We  came  from  thence  to  Street,  and  to  William  Beaton's 
at  Puddimore,  where  we  had  a  very  large  general  meeting  ; 
wherein  the  Lord's  everiafting  truth  was  declared,  the  peo- 
ple refreftied,  and  all  quiet.  From  thence  we  went  to  John 
Dandy's,  where  we  had  another  large  and  very  precious  meet- 
ing; and  then  palled  to  Briftol,  where  we  had  good  fervice 
for  the  Lord,  and  all  quiet.  Here  we  met  with  Margaret 
Fell  and  her  daughters  again.  After  fome  time  we  went  to 
Slattenford  in  VViltftiire,  where  was  a  very  large  meeting  in 
a  great  b?.rn.  Good  fervice  we  had  there;  for  the  truth,  as 
it  is  in  Jefus,  was  publiftred  amongft  them,  and  many  were 
gathered  by  it  into  the  name  of  the  Lord. 

After  tliis  I  paifed  into  Gloucefterftiire  and  Herefordfhire, 
having  large  meetings  in  each.  In  flereford  I  had  a  meet- 
aiter  which,  and   I    v/as  gone,  the  magil- 


i663]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  27 

trates  hearing  of  it,  came  to  fearch  the  inn  for  me,  and  were 
vexed  they  had  miffed  me.  But  the  Lord  fo  ordered  it, 
that  I  efcaped  their  hands,  and  friends  were  eflabhfhed  up- 
on Chrift,  their  Foundation,  the  Rock  of  Ages. 

Then  I  went  into  Radnorfliire,  in  Wales,  where  I  had 
feveral  precious  meetings.  The  Lord's  name  and  flandard 
was  fet  up,  many  were  gathered  to  it,  and  fettled  under  the 
teaching  of  Chrift  Jefus,  their  Saviour,  who  bought  them. 

After  I  was  clear  of  Wales,  I  came  to  a  market-town  be- 
twixt England  and  Wales,  where  was  a  great  fair  that  day  ; 
and  feveral  friends  being  at  the  fair,  we  went  to  an  inn, 
where  they  came  to  us.  After  a  fine  opportunity  with 
friends  we  parted  and  went  our  way.  The  officers  of  the 
town  took  notice  it  feems,  of  our  being  there,  and  of  friends 
gathering  to  us.  They  began  alfo  to  get  together  to  con- 
fult  how  to  enfnare  us,  though  it  was  the  fair-time  ;  but  be- 
fore they  could  do  any  thing  we  were  gone,  and  lo  efcaped 
them. 

From  thence  we  came  into  Shroplliire,  where  we  had  a 
large  and  precious  meeting.  After  many  meetings  in  thofe 
parts,  we  came  into  Warwickfhire,  vifited  friends  there,  and 
lb  into  Derbyfhire  and  Staffordlhire,  vifiting  meetings  as 
we  went.  At  White-haugh  we  had  a  large  bleifed  meet- 
ing, and  quiet ;  after  which  we  took  horfe,  and  lode  about 
twenty  miles  that  night  to  captain  Lingard's.  We  heard 
afterwards,  that  when  we  were  gone,  the  officers  came  to 
have  feized  us,  and  were  much  difturbed  they  milled  us; 
but  the  Lord  difappointed  them,  and  friends  were  joyful  in 
the  Lord  that  we  efcaped  them. 

At  captain  Lingard's  we  had  a  bleffed  meeting,  the  Lord's 
prefence  being  wonderfully  amongft  us.  After  which  we 
paffed  thro' the  Peak-country  in  Derbyfhire,  and  went  to 
Synderhill-green,  where  we  had  a  large  "meeting.  Here 
John  Whitehead  and  feveral  friends  came  to  me.  Then  I 
paffed  through  the  country,  vifiting  friends,  till  I  came  to 
the  farther  end  of  Holdernefs,  and  by  Scarborough,  Whit- 
by, and  Malton,  to  York,  having  many  meetings  in  the 
way,  and  the  Lord's  everlalling  power  was  over  all. 

We  went  from  York  to  B^oroughbridge,  where  I  had  a 
glorious  meeting.  Thence  we  paffed  into  the  Biffioprick  to 
one  Richmond's,  where  was  a  general  meeting ;  and  the 
Lord's  power  ^V3LS  over  all,  though  people  were  exceed- 
ing rude  about  this  time.  After  the  meeting  we  went  to 
Henry  Draper's,  vv^here  wc  (laid  all  night.  Next  morning 
D  2 


28  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1665 

a  friend  came  as  I  was  pafling  away,  and  told  me,  '  If  the 
'  priefts  and  juflices  could  light  on  me,  they  would  deltroy 

*  me.' 

Being  clear  of  the  Biflioprick,  I  went  over  Stainmore  into 
Yorkfhire,  and  to  Sedberg ;  where  having  vifited  friends,  I 
went  into  Weftmoreland,  vifiting  friends  there  alfo.  From 
thence  I  palfed  into  Lancalliire,  and  came  to  Swarthmore, 
where  I  ftaid  but  a  little  while  before  I  went  over  the  Sands 
to  Arnfide ;  where  1  had  a  general  meeting.  After  it  was 
ended  fome  men  came  to  have  broken  it  up,  but  under- 
ftanding  before  they  got  thither  the  meeting  was  over,  they 
turned  back.  I  went  to  Robert  Widders's,  and  from  thence 
to  Underbarrow,  where  I  had  a  glorious  meeting  ;  and  the 
Lord's  power  was  fet  over  all.  From  thence  I  paffed  to 
Grayrigg,  vifited  friends,  and  then  to  Ann  Audland's, 
where  they  would  have  had  me  to  have  ftay'd  their  meeting 
the  next  day;  but  I  felt  a  flop  in  my  Spirit.  It  was  upon 
me  to  go  to  John  Blaykling's,  in  Sedberg,  to  be  at  the 
meeting  there  ;  which  is  large,  and  a  precious  people  there 
is.  We  had  a  very  good  meeting  the  next  day  ;  but  the 
conflables  went  to  Ann  Audland's  meeting  to  look  for  me. 
Thus  by  the  good  hand  and  difpoling  providence  of  the 
Lord  I  efcaped  their  fnare. 

I  Tvcnt  from  John  Blaykling's  with  Leonard  Fell  to 
Strickland-head,  where  on  firft-day  we  had  a  very  precious 
meeting  on  the  common.  That  night  we  ftaid  amongft  oar 
friends  there,  and  the  next  day  paffed  into  Northumberland. 
After  the  juftices  heard  of  this  meeting,  they  made  fearch 
for  me  ;  but  by  the  good  hand  of  the  Lord  I  efcaped  them, 
though  there  were  fome  very  wicked  juflices.  We  went  to 
Hugh  Hutchinfon's,  in  Northumberland,  a  friend  in  the 
miniftry,  from  v/hence  v/e  vifited  friends  thereabouts ;  and 
then  to  Derwcnt-water,  where  we  had  a  very  glorious  meet- 
ing. There  came  an  ancient  woman,  and  told  me,  her 
hufband  remembered  his  love  to  me  ;  Ihe  faid,  I  might  call 
him  to  mind  by  this  token,  that  I  ufed  to  call  him,  '  The 

*  tall  white  old  man.'  She  faid,  he  was  fix  fcore  and  two 
years  old,  and  that  he  would  have  come  to  the  meeting,  but 
that  his  horfes  were  all  employed  upon  forne  urgent  occa- 
fion.    I  heard  he  lived  fome  years  after. 

When  I  had  vifited  friends  in  thofe  parts,  and  they  were 
fettled  upon  Chrift,  their  Foundation,  I  palfed  through 
Northumberland,  and  came  to  old  Thomas  Bewley's,  in 
Cumberland.     Friends  came  about  rac,  and  afked,  '  Would 


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*  I  come  there  to  go  into  prifon  ?'  For  there  was  great  per- 
fecution  in  that  country  at  that  time ;  yet  I  had  a  general 
meeting  at  Thomas  Bewley's,  which  was  large  and  pre- 
cious ;  and  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all. 

One  Mufgrave  was  at  that  time  deputy -governor  of  Car- 
lifle,  and  I  paffing  along  that  country,  came  to  a  man's 
houfe  that  had  been  convinced,  whofe  name  was  Fletcher ; 
and  he  told  me,  '  If  Mufgrave  knew  I  was  there,  he  would 

*  be  fure  to  fend  me  to  prifon,  he  was  fuch  a  fevere  man.' 
But  I  (laid  not,  only  called  on  the  way  to  fee  this  man, 
then  went  to  William  Pearfon's,  near  Wigton,  where  this 
meeting  was,  which  was  very  large  and  precious.  Some 
friends  were  then  prifoncrs  at  Carlifle,  whom  I  vifited  by  a 
letter,  which  Leonard  Fell  carried.  From  William  Pear- 
fon's I  vifited  friends  till  I  came  to  Pardfey-crag,  where  we 
had  a  general  meeting,  which  was  large,  quiet,  and  peacea- 
ble, and  the  glorious,  powerful  prefence  of  the  everlafting 
God  was  with  us. 

So  eager  were  the  magiftrates  about  this  time  to  ftir  up 
perfecution  in  thofe  parts,  that  fome  offered  five  (hillings, 
fome  a  noble  a  day,  to  any  that  could  apprehend  the  fpeakers 
amongfl  Quakers  ;  but  it  being  now  the  time  of  the  quarter- 
feflions  in  that  county,  the  men  who  were  fo  hired  were 
gone  to  the  feffions  to  get  their  wages,  fo  all  our  meetings 
were  at  that  time  quiet. 

From  Pardfey-crag  we  went  into  Weflmoreland,  calling 
in  the  way  upon  Hugh  Tickell,  near  Kefwick,  and  upon 
Thomas  Laythes,  where  friends  came  to  vifit  us ;  and  we 
had  a  fine  opportunity  to  be  refrefhed  together.  We  went 
that  night  to  Francis  Benfon's,  in  Weflmoreland,  near  juf- 
tice  Fleming's.  This  jullice  was  at  that  time  in  a  great 
rage  againft  friends,  and  me  in  particular ;  infomuch  that 
in  the  open  feffions  at  Kendal,  jufl  before,  he  had  bid  '  Five 

*  pounds  to  any  man  that  fhould  take  m.e,'  as  Francis  Bcn- 
fon  told  me.  And  it  feems,  as  I  went  to  this  hiend's 
houfe,  I  met  one  man  coming  from  the  feffions  that  had 
this  five  pounds  offered  him  to  take  me,  and  he  knew  me ; 
for  as  I  paffed  by  him,  he  faid  to  his  companion,  '  That  is 

*  George  Fox :'  yet  he  had  not  power  to  touch  me ;  for  the 
Lord  preferved  me  over  them  ail.  The  jufticss  being  fo 
eager  to  have  me,  and  I  being  fo  often  nigh  them,  and  yet 
they  miffing  me,  it  tormented  them  the  more. 

I  went  from  thence  to  James  Taylor's  at  Cartme!,.  in  Lan- 


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cafhire,  where  I  ftaid  firft-day,  and  had  a  precious  meeting. 
After  which  I  came  over  the  Sands  to  Swarthmore. 

There  they  told  me  cotonel  Kirby  had  fent  his  lieutenant, 
who  had  fcarched  trunks  and  chefls  for  me.  That  night  as 
I  was  in  bed,  I  was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  go  next  day  to 
Kirby-hall,  which  was  colonel  Kirby 's  houfe  about  five 
miles  oflF,  to  fpeak  with  him.  When  I  came  thither,  I 
found  the  Flemings,  and  feveral  others  of  the  gentry  (To 
called)  of  the  country,  who  were  come  to  take  their  leave 
of  colonel  Kirby,  he  being  then  to  go  up  to  London  to  the 
parliament.  I  was  had  into  the  parlour  amongft  them ; 
but  colonel  Kirby  was  not  then  within,  being  gone  out  a 
little  way.  They  faid  little  to  me,  nor  I  much  to  thern. 
But  after  a  little  while  colonel  Kirby  came  in,  and  I  told 
him,  '  I  came  to  vifit  him,  underflanding  he  was  defirous 
'  to  fee  me,  to  knoiv  what  he  had  to  fay  to  me,  and  whe- 
'  ther  he  had  any  thing  againfl  me  ?'  He  faid  before  all  the 
company,  '  As  he  was  a  gentleman,  he  had  nothing  againfl 
'  me.  But,'  faid  he,  '  miftrefs  Fell  mufl  not  keep  great 
'  meetings  at  her  houfe,  for  they  met  contrary  to  the  aft.* 
I  told  him,  '  That  aft  did  not  take  hold  on  us,  but  on  fuch 
'  as  '•  met  to  plot  and  contrive,  and  to  raife  infurie6lions 
"  againft  the  king;"  whereas  we  were  no  fuch  people:  for 
'  he  knew  they  that  met  at  Margaret  Fell's  were  his  neigh- 
'  hours,  and  a  peaceable  people.'  After  many  words  had 
pafled.  he  fliook  mc  by  the  hand,  and  faid  again,  '  He  had 
'  nothing  againfl  me ;'  and  others  of  them  faid,  '  I  was  a 
'  defcrving  man.'  So  we  parted,  and  I  returned  to  Swarth- 
more. 

Shortly  after,  when  colonel  Kirby  was  gone  to  London, 
there  was  a  private  meeting  of  the  juftices  and  deputy-lieu- 
tenants at  Houlkcr-hall,  where  jullice  Preilon  lived ;  where 
they  granted  a  warrant  to  apprehend  me.  I  heard  over 
night  both  of  their  meeting  and  of  the  warrant,  and  could 
have  gone  out  of  their  reach  if  1  would ;  for  I  had  not  ap- 
pointed any  meeting  at  that  time,  and  I  had  cleared  myfelf 
of  the  north,  and  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all.  But  I 
confidered,  there  being  a  noife  of  a  plot  in  the  north,  if  I 
Ihould  go  away  they  might  fall  upon  friends ;  but  if  I  gave 
myfelf  up  to  be  taken,  it  might  prevent  them,  and  friends 
fiiould  efcape  the  better ;  fo  I  gave  myfelf  up  to  be  taken, 
and  prepared  againfl  they  came.  Next  day  an  officer  came 
with  his  fword  and  piflols  to  take  me.  I  told  him,  '  I 
'  kni.'.'.-  hi-s  errand  before,  and  had  given  myfelf  to  be  taken  ; 


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*  for  if  I  would  have  efcaped  their  iinprifonment,  I  could 
'■  have  been  forty  miles  off  before  he  came ;  but  I  was  an 
'■  innocent  man,  and  fo  mattered  not  what  they  could  do  to 
'  me.'  He  afked  me,  '  How  I  heard  of  it,  feeing  the  order 
'  was  made  privately  in  a  parlour  ?'  I  faid,  it  was  no  matter 
for  that,  it  was  fufficient  that  I  heard  it.  I  afked  him  to 
let  me  fee  his  order;  whereupon  he  laid  his  hand  on  his 
•fword,  and  faid,  '  I  m.ufl  go  with  him  before  the  lieutenants, 
'  to  anfwer  fuch  quellions  as  they  fhould  propound  to  me.' 
I  told  him,  it  was  but  civil  and  reafonable  for  him  to  let 
me  fee  his  order;  but  he  would  not.  Then  fiiid  I,  I  am 
ready.  So  I  went  along  with  him,  and  Margaret  Fell  ac- 
companied us  to  Houlker-hall.  When  we  came  thither, 
there  was  one  Rawlinfon,  a  juflice,  and  one  called  Sir 
George  Middleton,  and  many  more  that  I  did  not  know, 
befides  old  juftice  Prefton  who  lived  there.  They  brought 
Thomas  Atkinfon,  a  friend,  of  Cartmel,  as  a  witnefs  againfl 
me,  for  fome  words  which  he  had  told  to  one  Knipe,  who 
had  informed  them ;  which  words  were,  '  That  I  had  writ- 

*  ten  againfl  the  plotters,  and  had  knocked  them  down.' 
Thefe  words  they  could  not  make  much  of;  for  I  told 
them  I  had  heard  of  a  plot  and  had  written  againfl  it.  Old 
Prefton  afked  me,  '  Whether  I  had  an  hand  in  that  fcript  ?' 
I  afked  him  what  he  meant  ?  Pie  faid,  in  the  Battledore  ? 
I  anfwered,  Yes.  Then  he  afked  me,  '  Whether  I  did  un- 
'  derftand  languages  ?'  I  faid,  Sufficient  for  myfelf ;  and 
'  that  I  knew  no  law  that  was  tranfgrefFed  by  it.  I  told 
'  them  alfo,  That  to  underftand  thole  outward  languages, 
'  was  no  matter  of  lalvation  ;  for  the  many  tongues  began 
'  but  at  the  confufion  of  Babel :  and  if  I  did  underftand 
'  any  thing  of  them,  I  judged  and  knocked  them  down 
'  again  for  any  matter  of  falvation  that  was  in  them.' 
Thereupon  he  turned  away,  and  faid,  '  George  Fox  knocks 
'  down  all  the  lancruaijes.  Come,'  faid  he,  '  we  will  exa- 
'  mme  you  of  higher  matters.' 

Then  faid  George  Middleton.   '  You  deny  God,  and  the 

*  church,  and  the  faith.'  I  replied,  '  Nay  :  I  own  God, 
'  and  the  true  church,  and  the  true  faith.  But  what  church 
'  doll  thou  own,  faid  I  ?'  (for  I  underftood  he  was  a  Papift.) 
Then  he  turned  again^  and  faid,  "  You  are  a  rebel  and  a 
•'  traitor."  I  aftced  him,  Whom  he  fpoke  to  ?  or  whom 
did  he  call  a  rebel  ?  He  was  fo  full  of  envy,  that  for 
awhile  he  could  not  fpeak  ;  but  at  laft  he  faid,  '  He  fpoke 
'  it  to  me.'     With  that  \  ftruck  mv  hand  on  the  t;ible,  and 


32  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1665 

told  him,  I  had  fufFered  more  than 'twenty  fuch  as  he,  or 
than  any  that  were  there ;  '  for  I  had  been  call  into  Derby 
'  prifon  for  fix  months  together,  and  had  fufFered  much  be- 
'  caufe  I  would  not  take  up  arms  againft  the  king  before 
'  Worcefter  fight.  I  had  been  fent  up  prifoner  out  of  my 
'  own  country  by  colonel  Hacker  to  O.  Cromwel,  as  a  plot- 
'  ter  to  bring  in  K.  Charles,  in  the  year  1654;  and  I  had 
'  nothing  but  love  and  good-will  to  the  king,  and  defired 
'  the  eternal  good  and  welfare  of  him  and  all  his  fubjefts. 
"  Did  you  ever  hear  the  like  ?"  faid  Middleton.  Nay,  faid 
'  I,  ye  may  hear  it  again,  if  ye  will.  For  ye  talk  of  the 
'  king,  a  company  of  you  ;  but   where  were  ye  in  Oliver's 

*  days  ?  and  what  did   ye  do  then   for  him  ?   I  have  more 

*  love  to  the  king  for  his  eternal  good  and  welfare  than  any 
'  of  you  have.' 

Then  they  afked  me,  '  Whether  I  had  heard  of  the  plot?* 
I  faid,  '  Yes,  I  had  heard  of  it.'  They  alked  me,  '  How  I 
'  had  heard  of  it  ?  and  whom  I  knew  in  it  ?'  I  told  them, 
'  I  had  heard  of  it  through  the  high-ftieriff  of  Yorkfhire, 
'  who  told  Dr.  Hodgfon  "  there  was  a  plot  in  the  north  ;" 
'  that  was  the  way  I  heard  of  it ;  but  I  never  heard  of  any 
'  fuch  thing  in  the  fouth,  nor  till  I  came  into  the  north. 
'  And  as  for  knowing  any  in  the  plot,  I  was  as  a  child  in  that, 
'  for  I  knew  none  of  them.'  Then  they  faid,  "  Why  would 
"  you  write  againft  it,  if  you  had  not  known  fome  that  were 
"  in  it  ?"  I  faid,  "  My  reafon  was,  becaufe  you  are  fo  for- 
"  ward  to  mafh  the  innocent  and  guilty  together;  therefore 
"  I  wrote  againft  it  to  clear  the  truth  from  fuch  things,  and 
"  to  ftop  all  forward  foolifh  fpirits  from  running  into  fuch 
"  things."  I  fent  copies  of  it  into  Weftmoreland,  Cumber- 
'  land,  Bifhoprick,  Yorkftiire,  and  to  you  here.  I  fent  an- 
'  other  copy  of  it  to  the  king  and  his  council,  and  it  is  like  it 
'  may  be  in  print  by  this  time.'  One  of  them  faid,  '  O  ! 
'  this  man  halh  great  power!'  I  faid,  Yes,  I  had  power  to 
write  againft  plotters.  Then  faid  one  of  them,  '  You  are 
'  againft  the  laws  of  the  land.'  I  anfwered  '  Na^;  for  I 
'  and  my  friends  dired  all  people  to  the  Spirit  of  God  in 
'  them,  to  mortify  the  deeds  of  the  flefli.  This  brings  them 
'  into  well-doing,  and  from  that  which  the  magiftrates  fword 

*  is  againft,  which  eafes  the  magiftrates,  who  arc  lor  the  pu- 
'  nifliment  of  evil-doers.  People  being  turned  to  the  Spirit 
'  of  God,   which  brings  them  to  mortify  the  deeds  of  the 

*  flefti,  from  under  the  occafion  of  the  magiftrates  fword. 
'  This  muft  needs  be  one  with  magiftracy,  and  one  with 


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'  tbe  law,  v/hich  was  added  b^caufe  of  tranfgrtfiion,  and  is 

*  for  the  praife  of  them  that  do  well.  In  this  we  eftablifli 
'  the  law,  are  an  eafe  to  the  magiftrates,  and  are  not  againft 

*  but  fland  for  all  good  government.* 

Then  George  Middleton  cried,   '  Bring  the  book,  and  put 

*  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy  to  him.'  He  being 
a  Papift,  I  alked  him,  '  Whether  he  had  taken  the  oath  of 
'  fupremacy,  who  was  a  fwearer  ?   As  for  us,  we  could  not 

*  fwear  at  all,  becaufe  Chrift  and  his  apoftle  had  forbidden 

*  it.'  Some  of  them  would  not  have  had  the  oath  put  to  me, 
but  have  fet  me  at  liberty.  The  reil  would  not  agree  to  it; 
for  this  was  their  lafl  fnare,  and  they  had  no  other  way  to 
get  me  into  prifon,  as  all  other  things  had  been  cleared  to 
them.  This  was  like  the  Papifls  facrament  of  the  altar,  by 
which  they  enfnared  the  martyrs.  So  they  tendered  me  the 
oath,  which  I  could  not  take ;  whereupon  they  were  about 
to  make  my  mittimus  to  fend  me  to  Lancafter  gaol ;  but 
confidering  of  it,  they  only  engaged  me  to  appear  at  the 
feflions,  and  for  that  time  difmilfed  me.  I  went  back  with 
Margaret  Fell  to  Swarthmore,  and  foon  after  colonel  Wefb 
came  to  fee  me,  who  was  at  t|iat  time  a  juftice  of  peace. 
He  told  us,  '  He  acquainted  fofee  of  the  reft  of  the  juftices, 
'  that  he  would  come  and  fee  Margaret  Fell  and  me  ;  but  it 
'  may  be,'  faid  he,  '  fome  of  you  will  take  offence  at  it.'  I 
afked  him,  What  he  thought  they  would  do  with  me  at  the 
feffions  ?  He  faid,  '  They  would  tender  the  bath  to  me 
"  again.'  ,, 

Whilft  I  was  at  Swarthmore,  William  Kirby  came  into 
Swarthmore  meeting,  and  brought  the  conftabies  with  him. 
I  was  fitting  with  friends  in  the  meeting,  and  he  faid  to  me, 
'  How  now,  Mr.  Fox  !  you  have  a  fine  company  here.* 
''  Yes,'  faid  I,  '  we  meet  to  wait  upon  the  Lord.'  So  he 
began  to  take  the  names  of  friends,  and  thofe  that  did  not  • 
readily  tell  him  their  names,  he  committed  to  the  conftabies 
hands,  and  fent  fome  to  prifon.  The  conftabies  were  un- 
willing to  take  them  without  a  warrant,  whereupon  he  threat- 
ened to  fet  them  by  the  heels ;  but  the  conftable  told  him, 
'  He  could  keep  them  in  his  prefence,  but  after  he  was  gone 

*  he  could  not  keep  them  without  a  warrant.' 

The  feffions  coming  on,  I  went  to  Lancafter,  and  ap- 
peared according  to  my  engagement.  There  was  upon  the 
bench  juftice  Fleming,  who  had  bid  live  pounds  in  Weft- 
moreland  to  any  man  that  would  apprehend  me;  for  he 
was  a  juftice  both  in  Wcftrnorehnd  and  Lancaftiire.    There 

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34  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1663 

were  alfo  juflice  Spencer,  colonel  Weft,  and  old  juftice 
Rawlinfon,  the  lawyer,  who  gave  the  charge,  and  was  very 
Iharp  againft  truth  and  IViends ;  but  the  Lord's  power  flop- 
ped thetn.  The  ielfion  was  large,  the  concourfe  of  people 
great,  and  way  being  made  for  me,  1  came  up  to  the 
bar,  and  llood  with  my  hat  on,  they  looking  earneflly  upon, 
me  and  I  upon  them  for  a  pretty  {pace.  Proclamation  be- 
ing made  '  for  all  to  keep  filence  upon  pain  of  imprifon- 
'  ment;'  and  all  being  quiet,  I  faid  twice,  '  Peace  be  among 

*  vou/  The  chairman  afked,  If  I  knew  where  I  was  ?  I 
faid,  '  Yes,  I  do;  but  it  may  be,  faid  I,  my  hat  offends 
'  you.     That's  a  low  thing,  that's  not  the  honour  that  I 

*  give  to  magiftrates,  for  the  true  honour  is  from  above ; 
'  which,  faid  I,  I  have*received,  and   I  hope  it  is  not  the 

*  hat  which  ye  look  upon  to  be  the  honour.'  The  chairman 
faid,  '  They  looked  for  the  hat  too,'  and  allced,  '  Wherein 
'  I  fhewed  my  refpe6l  to  magiftrates,  if  I  did  not  put  ofF 
'  my  hat  ?'  1  replied,  '  In  coming  when  they  called  me.' 
Then  they  bid  one,  '  Take  off"  my  hat.'  After  which  it 
was  feme  time  before  they  fpoke  to  me,  and  I  felt  the  pow- 
er of  the  Lord  to  arife.  After  fome  paufe,  old  juftice 
Rawlinfon  (the  chairman)  aftced  me,  '  If  I  knew  of  the 
'  plot  ?'  I  told  him,  '  I  heard  of  it  in  Yorkfhire  by  a 
'  tricnd,  who  had  it  from  the  high-fheriff.'  They  alked 
me,  '  Whether  I  had  declared  it  to  the  magiftrates  ?'  I  faid, 
'  I  had  fent  papers  abroad  againft  plots  and  plotters,  and 
'  alfo  to  you,  as  foon  as  I  came  into  the  country,  to  take 
'  all  jealoufies  out  of  your  minds  concerning  me  and  my 
'  friends ;  for  it  is  our  principle  to  declare  againft  fuch 
'  things.'  They  afked  me,  '  If  I  knew  not  of  an  acl  againft 
'  mecrings  ?'  I  faid,  '  I  knew  there  was  an  a61;  that  took 
'  hold  of  fuch  as  met  to  the  terrifying  of  the  king's  fubjefts, 
'  were  enemies  to  the  king,  and  held  dangerous  principles  ; 
'  but  I  hoped  tliey  did  not  look  upon  us  to  be  fuch  men, 

*  for  our  meetings  were  not  to  terrify  the  king's  fubjefts, 
'  neitlier  are  we  enemies  to  him  or  any  man.'  Then  they 
tendered  me  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy.  I  told 
them,  '  I  couJd  not  take  any  oath  at  all,  becaufe  Chrift 
'  and  his  apoftle  had  forbid  it ;  and  they  had  fufticient  ex- 
'  perience  of  fwearers,  firft  one  way,  then  another;  but  I 
'  had  never  taken  any  oath  in  my  life.'  Rawlmfon  aflced 
me,  '  Whether  I  held  it  was  unlawful  to  fwear  ?'  This 
queftion  he  put  on  purpofe  to  enfnare  me;  for  by  an  a6l 
that  was  made,  fuch  were  liable  to  banifiiment  or  a  great 


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fine,  that  fhould  fay,  it  was  '  unlawful  to  fwear.'  But  I, 
feeing  the  fnare,  avoided  it,  and  told  him,  '  That  in  the 
"*  time  of  the  law  amongft  the  Jews,  before  Chrifl  came,  the 

*  law   commanded  them  to  fwear;  but   Chrift,  who  doth 

*  fulfil  the  law  in  his  gofpel-time,  commands,  ''  not  to  fwear 
"  at  all ;"  and  the  apoftle  James  forbids   fwearing,  even  to 

*  them  that  were  Jews,  and  v\^ho  had  the  law  of  God.'  After 
much  difcourfe  the)^  called  for  the  gaoler,  and  committed 
me  to  prifon.  I  had  the  paper  about  me  which  I  wrote  as 
a  teftimony  againft  plots,  which  I  defired  they  would  read, 
or  fuffer  to  be  read  in  open  court ;  but  they  would  not. 
So  being  committed  for  refufing  to  iwear,   '  I  bid  them  and 

*  all  the  people  take  notice,  that  I  fuffered  for  the  doclrine 

*  of  Chrift,  and  for  my  obedience  to  his  command.'  After- 
wards I  underftood  the  juftices  did  fay,  that  they  had  pri- 
vate inftru6lions  from  colonel  Kirby  to  profecute  me,  not- 
withftanding  his  fair  carriage  and  feeming  kindnefs  to  me 
before,  when  he  declared  before  many  of  tliem,   '  That  he 

*  had  nothing  againft  me.'  Several  other  friends  were  com- 
mitted to  prifon,  fome  for  meeting  to  worftiip  God,  and 
fome  for  not  fwearing ;  fo  that  the  prifon  was  very  full. 
Many  of  them  being  poor  men,  without  any  thing  to  main- 
tain their 'families  by  but  their  labour,  which  now  they  were 
taken  from,  feveral  of  their  wives  went  to  the  juftices  who 
committed  their  hufbands,  and  told  them,   '  If  they  kept 

*  their  hufl^ands  in  gaol  for  nothing  but  the  truth  of  Chrift 

*  and  for  good  confcience-fake,  they  would  bring  their  chil- 

*  dren  to  them  to  be  maintained.'  A  mighty  power  of  the. 
Lord  rofe  in  friends,  and  gave  them  great  boldnefs,  fo  that 
they  fpoke  much  to  the  juftices.  Friends  alfo  that  were 
priibners  wrote  to  the  juftices,  '  laying  the  weight  of  their 

*  fufferings  upon  them,  and  lliewing  thtm  both  their  injuftice 
'  and  want  of  compaftion  towards  their  poor  neighbouis, 

*  whom  they  knew  to  be  honeft,  confcientious,  peaceable 

*  people,  that  in  tendernefs  of  confcience  could  not  take  any 

*  oath;  yet  they  fent  them  to  prifon  for  refufmg  to  take  the 
'  oath  of  allegiance.      Though  feveral  of  thofe  impnfoned 

*  on  that  account  were  known  to  be  men  who  had  ferved 

*  the  king  in  his  wars,  had  hazarded  their  lives  in  the  field 
'  in  his  caufe,  had  fufFered  great  hardfliips,  with  the  lofs  of 
'  much  blood  for  him,  and  always   ftood  faithful  to  him 

*  from  fiift  to  laft,  yet  never  received  pay  for  their  fervice ; 

*  and  to  be  thus  requited  for  all  their  faithful   fervices  and 

*  fufferings  by  thofe  that  pretended  to  be  the  king's  friends, 


35  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1663 

'  was  hard,  unkind,  and  ungrateful  dealing/  At  length 
thcjuftices,  being  continually  attended  with  complaints  of 
grievances,  releafed  fome  of  the  friends,  but  kept  divers  ftiU 
in  prifon. 

There  were  four  friends  prifoners  for  tithes,  Tent  to  prifon 
at  the  fuit  of  the  countefs  of  Derby,  who  had  lain  near  two 
years  and  an  half.  One  of  thefe  was  Oliver  Atherton, 
who  being  of  a  weakly  conftitution  was  through  long  and 
hard  imprifonment  in  a  cold,  raw,  unwholefome  place, 
brought  fo  low  and  weak  in  his  body,  that  there  appeared 
no  hopes  of  his  life  unlefs  he  might  be  removed.  Where- 
fore a  letter  was  wrote  on  his  behalf  to  the  countefs,  and 
.fent  by  his  fon  Godfrey  Atherton,  wherein  was  laid  before 
her  '  the  reafons  why  he  and  the  reft  could  not  pay  tithes ; 

*  becaufe  if  they  did,  they  fhould  deny  Chrifl  come  in  the 

*  flelh,   who   by   his  coming  had  put  an  end  to  the  tithes, 

*  and  to  the  priefthood  to  which  they  had  been  given,  and 
'  to  the  commandment  by  which  they  had  been  paid  under 

*  the  law.     His  weak  condition  of  body  was  alfo  laid  before 

*  her,  and  the  apparent  likelihood  of  his  death,  if  fhe  con- 

*  tinued  to  hold  him  there,  that  fhe  might  be  moved  to  pity 

*  and  compaffion,  and  alfo  warned  not  to  draw  the  guilt  of 

*  innocent  blood  upon  her.'  When  his  fon  went  to  her 
with  his  father's  letter,  a  fervant  of  hers  abufed  him,  pluck- 
ed ofF  his  cap  and  threw  it  away,  and  put  him  out  of  the 
gate.  Neverthelefs  the  letter  was  delivered  into  her  own 
hand,  but  fhe  fliut  out  all  pity  and  tendernefs,  and  con- 
tinued him  in  prifon  till  death.  When  his  fon  returned  to 
his  father  in  prifon,  and  told  him  as  he  lay  on  his  dying- 
bed,   that   the  counttf;  denied   his    liberty,   he    only   faid, 

*  She  hath  been  the  caufe  of  fhedding  much  blood,  but  this 

*  will  be  the  heaviefl  blood  that  ever  flie  fpilt,'  and  foon 
after  he  died.  Friends  having  his  body  delivered  to  them 
to  bury,  as  they  carried  it  from  the  prifon  to  Ormfkirk,  the 
parifh  wherein  he  had  lived,  they  lluck  up  papers  upon  the 
croffes  at  Garllang,  Prefton,  and  other  towns  through  which 
they  paffed,  with  this  infcription  : 

"  This  is  Oliver  Ailierton,  of  Ormfkirk  parilli,  perfe^ 
*'  nitcd  to  dL\Tth  by  the  countefs  of  Derby  for  good  con- 
*•  fcience-fake  towards  God  and  Chrifl,  becaufe  he  could 
"  not  give  her  tithes,  ^c." 

S-tting  forth  th'j  reafons  of  his  rcfafmg  to  pay  tithes,  the 


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length  of  his  imprifonment,  the  hardfhips  he  underwent, 
her  hard-heartednefs  towards  him,  and  the  manner  of  his 
death.  After  his  death,  Richard  Cubban,  another  of  her 
prifoners  for  tithes,  wrote  a  large  letter  to  her,  on  behalf 
of  himfelf  and  his  fellow-prifoners  at  her  fuit,  laying  their 
innocency  before  her ;  '  and  that  it  was  not  out  of  wilful- 
'  nefs,  ftubbornnefs,  or  covetoufnefs,    that  they  refufed  to 

*  pay  their  tithes,  but  purely  in  good  confcience  tou^ards 

*  God  and  Chrift  ;  letting  her  know,  if  fhe  fhould  be  fuf- 

*  fered  to  keep  them  there  till  they  every  one  died,  as  fhe 
'  had  done  their  fellow-fuflFerer,  Oliver  Atherton,  they  could 

*  not  yield  to  pay  her.      And  therefore  dcfired  her  to  con- 

*  fider  their  cafe  in  a  ChriHian  fpirit,   and  not  bring  their 

*  blood  upon  herfelf  alfo.'  Yet  fhe  would  not  fhew  any 
pity  or  companion  to  them,  who  had  now  fufiPered  hard 
imprifonment  about  two  years  and  an  half  under  her.  In- 
ftead  thereof  fhe  fent  to  Garftang,  and  threatened  to  com- 
plain to  the  king  and  council,  and  bring  them  into  trouble, 
for  fufFering  the  paper  concerning  Oliver  Atherton's  death 
to  be  ftuck  upon  their  crofs.  The  rage  (he  expreffed  made 
the  people  take  the  more  notice  of  it,  and  fome  of  them 
faid,  '  The  Quakers  had  given  her  a  bone  to  pick.'  But 
fhe,  that  regarded  not  the  life  of  an  innocent  fufFerer  for 
Chrift,  lived  not  long  after  herfelf;  for  that  day  three  weeks 
that  Oliver  Atherton's  body  was  carried  through  Ormfkirk 
to  be  buried,  fhe  died ;  and  her  body  was  carried  that  day 
feven  weeks  through  the  fame  town  to  her  burying-place. 
Thus  the  Lord  purfued  the  hard-hearted  perfecutor.  I 
was  kept  till  the  affize,  and  judge  Turner  and  judge  Twif- 
den  coming  that  circuit,  I  was  brought  before  judge  Twif- 
den,  the  14th  of  the  month  called  March,  the  latter  end  of 
the  year  1665.  When  I  was  fet  to  the  bar,  I  faid,  '  Peace 
'  be  amongft  you  all.'  The  judge  looked  upon  me,  and 
faid,  '  What !  do  you  come  into  the  court  with  your  hat 
'  on !  Upon  which  words,  the  gaoler  taking  it  off,  I  faid, 
'  The  hat  is  not  the  honour  that  comes  from  God.'  Then 
faid  the  judge  to  me,    '  Will  you  take  the  oath  of  allegi- 

*  ance,  George  Fox  ?'  I  faid,  '  I  never  took  any  oath  in 
'  my  life,  nor  any  covenant  or  engagement.'  '  Well,'  faid 
he,  '  Will  you  fwear  or  no  ?'    I  anfwered,   '  I  am  a  Chrif- 

*  tian,  and  Chrift  commands  me  "  not  to  fwear ;"  fo  does 
'  the  apoftle  James ;  and  whether  I  ftiould  obey  God  or 
'  man,  do  thou  judge.'  I  alk  you  again,  faid  he,  '  Whether 
'  you  will  fwear  or  no  '^'     I  anfwered  again,   '  I  am  neither 


3$  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  I1663 

*  Turk,  }eiv.  nor  Heathen,  but  a  Chriftian,  and  fhould  fliew 
'  forth  chriflianity.  I  afked  him,  If  he  did  not  know  that 
'  Chriftians  in  the  primitive  times,  under  the  ten  perfecu- 

*  tions,  and  feme  alfo  of  the  martyrs  in  queen  Mary's  days, 
'  refufed  fwearing,  becaufe  Chrifl  and  the  apoftle  had  for- 
'  bidden  it  ?  I  told  him  alfo,  they  had  experience  enough, 
'  hou'  many  had  firfl;  fvvorn  for  the  king  and  then  againft 

*  him.    But  as  for  me  I  had  never  taken  an  oath  in  my  hie. 

*  My  allegiance  did  not  lie  in  fwearing,  but  in  truth  and 
'  faithfulnefs ;  for  I  honour  all  men,  much  more  the  king. 
'  But  Chrifk,  who  is  the  Great  Prophet,  the  King  of  kings, 
.'  the  Saviour  and  Judge  of  the  whole  world,  faith,  I  muft 
*'  not  fwear."  Now,  whether  muft  I  obey  Chrift  or  thee  ? 
'  P'or  it  is  tendernefs  of  confcience,  and  in  obedience  to  the 
'  command  of  Chrift,  that  I  do  not  fwear :  and  we  have  the 
'  word  of  a  king  for  tender  confciences.  Then  I  afked  the 
'judge.  If  he  did  own  the  king?  "  Yes,"  faid  he,  "  I  do 
''  own  the  king."    Why  then,  faid  I,  doft  thou  not  obfervc 

*  his  declaration  from  Breda,  and  his  promifes  made  lince 
'  he  came  into  England,  "  That  no  man  ftiould  be  called 
*'  m  queftion  for  matters  of  religion,  fo  long  as  they  lived 
'•  peaceably  ?"  If  thou  owneft  the  king,  faid  I,  why  doft 
'  thou  call  me  in  queftion,  and  put  me  upon  taking  an 
'  oath,    which  is  a   matter    of  religion  ;    feeing   thou  nor 

*  none  elfe  can  charge  me  with  unpeaceable  living  ?'  Upon 
this  he  was  moved,  and  looking  angrily  at  me,  faid,   '  Sir- 

*  rah,  will  you  fwear  ?'     I  told  him,   '  I  was  none  of  his 

*  Sirrahs,  I  was  a  Chriftian ;  and  for  him,  an  old  man,  and 

*  a  judge,  to  fit  there  and  give  nick-names  to  prifoners,  it 
'  did  not  become  either  his  grey  hairs  or  his  office.'  '  Well,' 
faid  he,  '  I  am  a  Chriftian  too.'  '  Then  do  Chriftian 
'  works,'   faid  I.       '  Sirrah!'   faid   he,    '  Thou  thinkeft    to 

*  frighten  me  with  thy  words.'  Then  catching  himfelf,  and 
looking  adde,  he  faid,  '  Hark !  I  am  ufmg  the  word  (Sirrah) 
'  again ;'  fo  -checked  himfelf.  I  faid,  '  'l  fpoke  to  thee  in 
'love;  for  that  language  did  not  become  thee,  a  judge. 
'  Thou  ought*  ft  to  inftru6l  a  prifoner  in  the  law,  if  he  were 
'  ignorant  and  out  of  the  way.'  '  And  I  fpeak  in  love  to 
'  thcc  too/  faid  he.     '  But,'  faid   I,  '  Love  gives  no  nick- 

*  names.*  Then  he  roufed  himfelf  up,  and  faid,  '  1  will 
'  not  be  afraid  of  thee,   George  Fox.     Thou  fpeakeft  fo 

*  loud,  thy  voice  drowns  mine  and  the  court's ;  I  muft  call 
''  tor  three  or  foiu*  criers  to  drown  thy  voice  :  thou  haft  good 
'  iun-s.'    •  I  am  a  prifoner  hcnc/  (ixid  I,  '  for  the  Lord  Jc- 


1663]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  59 

'  fus  Chrift's  fake ;  for  his  fake  do  I  fuffer,  for  him  do  I 
'  Hand  this  day,  and  if  my  voice  were  five  times  louder  I 

*  fhould  lift  it  up,   and  found  it  out  for  Chrift's  lake,   for 

*  whofe  caufe  I  ftand  this  day  before  your  judgment-feat, 
'  in  obedience  to  him  who  commands  '•  not  to  fvvear/'  be- 
'  fore  whofe  judgment-feat  you  muft  all  be  brought,  and 
'  muft  give  an  account.'  '  Well,'  faid  the  judge,  '  George 
'  Fox,  fay,  Whether  thou  wilt  take  the  oath.  Yea  or  Nay  ?' 
I  replied,  '  I  fay  as  I  faid  before,  Whether  ought  I  to  obey 
'  God  or  man,  judge  thou  ?  If  I  could  take  any  oath  at  all, 

*  I  fhould  take  this ;  for  I  do  not  deny  fome  oaths  only  or 
'  on  fome  occafions,  but  all  oaths,  according  to  Chrift's 
'  do6lrine,  who  hath  commanded  his,  "  Not  to  fwear  at  all/* 
'  Now  if  thou  or  any  of  you,  or  any  of  your  minifters  or 
'  priefts  here,  will  prove  that  ever  Chrift  or  his  apoftle,  after 
'  they  had  forbid  all  fwearing,  commanded  Chriflians  to 
'  fwear,  then  I  will  fwear,'  I  faw  feveral  priefts  there ;  but 
not  one  of  them  offered  to  fpeak.  Then  faid  the  judge,  '  I 
'  am  a  fervant  to  the  king,  and  the  king  fent  me  not  to  dif- 

*  pute  with  you,  but  to  put  the  laws  in  execution  ;  there- 
'  fore  tender  him  the  oath  of  allegiance.'     '  If  thou  love  the 

*  king,'  faid  I,  '  why  doft  thou  break  his  word,  and  not 
'  keep  his  declarations  and  fpeeches,  wherein  he  promifed 
'  liberty  to  tender  confciences  ?  I  am  a  man  of  a  tender 
'  confcience.  and  in  obedience  to  Chrift's  command  I  can- 
'  not  fwear.'  '  Then  you  will  not  fwear,"  (aid  the  judge  ; 
'  Take  him  away,  gaoler,'  I  faid,  '  It  is  for  Chrift's  lake 
'  that  I  cannot  fwear,  and  for  obedience  to  his  command  I 
'  fuffer;  and  fo  the  Lord  forgive  you  all,'  So  the  gaoler 
took  me  away  ;  but  I  felt  the  mighty  power  of  the  Lord  was 
over  them  all. 

The  fixteenth  of  the  fame  month  I  v/as  brought  before 
judge  Twifden  again,  who  was  fomewhat  offended  at  my 
hat ;  but  it  being  the  laft  m.orning  of  the  afiize,  before  he 
was  to  go  out  of  town,  and  not  many  people  there,  he 
made  the  lefs  of  it.  He  aflced  me,  *  Whether  I  would  tra- 
'  vcrfe,  ftand  mute,  or  fubmit.'  But  he  fpoke  fo  flift,  it 
ivas  hard  to  know  what  he  faid.  However  I  told  him,  '  I 
'  defired  I  might  have  liberty  to  traverfe  the  indiclment, 
'  and  try  it,'  Then  faid  he,  '  Take  him  away.  I  v.-iii  have 
'  nothing  to  do  with  him,  take  him  away.'  I  faid,  '  Well, 
•'  live  in  the  fear  of  God,  and  do  juftice,'  '  Why,'  ftiid  he/ 
'have  not  I  done  you  juftice?'  I  replied.  *  That  whicl^ 
'  thou  haft  done  hath  been  againft  the  command  of  Chnft.^ 


40       GEORGE  FOX's  JOURNAL.     {^166^ 

So  I  was  taken  to  the  gaol  again,  and  kept  prifoner  till  the 
next  aflizes. 

Some  time  before  this  affize,  Margaret  Fell  was  fent  pri- 
foner to  Lancaller  gaol  by  Fleming,  Kirby,  and  Prefton, 
juftices ;  and  at  the  affize  the  oath  was  tendered  to  her  alio, 
and  (he  was  again  committed  to  prifon  to  lie  till  the  next 
affize. 

Juftice  Fleming  being  one  of  the  fierceft  and  moft  vio- 
lentjullices  in  perfecuting  friends,  and  fending  his  honefl 
neighbours  to  prifon  for  religion's  fake;  and  many  friends 
being  at  this  time  in  Lancafter  gaol  committed  by  him,  and 
fome  having  died  in  prifon,  we  that  were  then  prifoners 
had  it  upon  us  to  write  to  him,  as  folioweth. 

*  O  juftice  Fleming ! 

<  TV  /fERCY,  compaffion,  love,  and  kindnefs  adorn  and 
'  iVX  grace  men  and  magiftrates.  Oh  !  doft  thou  not 
'  hear  the  cry  of  the  widows,  and  the  cry  of  the  fatheriefs, 
'  who  were  made  fo  through  perfecution  !    Were   they  not 

<  driven  like  fhecp,  from  conilable  to  conftable,  as  though 

*  they  had  been  the  greatefl  tranfgrelfors  or  malefatlors  in  the 

*  land  ?  Which  grieved  and  tendered  the  hearts  of  many  fo- 
'  ber  people,    to    fee    how  their  innocent  neighbours  and 

*  countrymen,  who  were  of  a  peaceable  carriage,  and  honeft: 
'  in  their  lives  and  converfations  among  men,  were  ufed  and 
'  ferved  !  One  more  is  dead,  whom  thou  fenteft  to  prifon, 
'  having  left  five  children  fatheriefs  and  motherlefs.      How 

*  canfl  thou  do  otherwife  than  take  care  of  thofe  fatheriefs 
'  infants,  and  alfo  of  the  other's  wife  and  family  ?  Is  it  not 
'  thy  place?   Confider  Job  (c.  xxix.)      He  was  a  father  to 

*  the  poor,  he  delivered  the  poor  that  cried,  and  the  father- 

*  lefs  that  had  none  to  help.  He  broke  the  jaws  of  the 
'  wicked,  and  plucked  the  fpoil  out  of  his  teeth.  But  oh  ! 
'  meafure  thy  life  and  his,  and  take  heed  of  the  day  of 
'  God's  eternal  judgment,  which  will  come,  and  the  fen- 
'  tence  and  decree  from  Chrift,  when  every  man  muft  give 

<  an   account  and  receive  a  reward  according  to  his  deeds. 

*  Then  it  will  be  faid,  "  Oh  !  where  are  the  months  that 
* '•' are  pafl  !"  Again,  juftice  Fleming,  confider,  when   John 

'  Stubbs  was  brought  before  thee,  having  a  wife  and  four 
'  fmall  children,  and  little  to  live  on  but  what  they  honeftly 
'  got  by  their  own  diligence ;  as  foon  as  he  appeared,  thou 
'  cried  out,  "  Put  the  oath  to  that  man."  And  when  he 
'  confelfed  he  was  but  a  poor  man,  thou  hadil  no  regard, 


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*  but  cafl;  away  pity,  not  hearing  what  he  would  fay.    And 

*  now  he  is  kept  in  prifon,  becaul'e  he  couid  not  fwear,  and 

*  break  the  command  of  Chrifl  and  the  apoflle,  it  is  to  be 
'  hoped  thou  wilt  take  care  of  his  family,  that  his  children 

*  do  not  flarve ;  and  fee  that  they  do  not  want  bread.  Can 
'  this  be  allegiance  to  the  king,  to  do  that  which  Chrift  and 
'  his  apoflle  fay  is  evil,  and  brings  into  condemnation  ? 
'  Would  not  you  have  caft  Chrifl  and  the  apoftle  into  pri- 
'  fon,  who  commanded  "  not  to  fwear,"  if  they  had  been 
'  in  your  days  ?  Confider  alfo  thy  poor  neighbour,  Wil- 
'  liam  Wilfon,  who  was  known  to  all  the  paiifh  and  neigh- 

*  hours  to  be  an  indullrious  man,  careful   to  maintain  his 

*  wife  and  children ;  yet  had  little  but  what  he  got  with  his 

*  hands  in  diligence  and  travels  to  fupply  himfelf.      How 

*  fhould  his  wife  maintain  her  children,  when  thou  haft  call 
'  her  hufband  into  prifon,  and  thereby  made  him  incapable 
'  of  working  for  them  ?  Therefore  it  may  be  expefted  thou 
'  wilt  have  a  care  of  his  wife  and  children,  and  fee  they  do 
'  not  want;  for  how  Ihould  they  live,  having  no  other  way 
'  to  be  fuftained  but  by  the  little  that  he  got?   Surely  the 

*  noife  of  this  is  in  the  very  markets,  the  death  of  thy  two 
'  neighbours,  the  cry  of  the  widows  and  fatherlefs  is  heard. 

*  All  thofe  fatherlefs  and  widows  are  made  fo  for  righteouf- 
'  nefs  fake.  For  might  not  John  Stubbs  and  William  Wil- 
'  fon  have  had  their  liberty  ftill,  if  they  would  have  fworn, 

*  though  they  had  been  fuch  as  go  after  mountebanks  and 
'  ftage-plays,  or  run  a  hunting  ?  Oh  !  confider  !  for  the 
'  Lord's  mind  is  otherwife.  He  is  tender,  and  the  king 
'  hath  declared  his  mind  to  be,  that  there  fhould  be  nocru- 
'  elty  inflicted  upon  his  peaceable  fubjefts,  Befides,  feveral 
'  poor  honeft  people  were  fined,  who  had  need  to  have 
'  fomething  given  them  ;  and  it  had  been  more  honourable 
'  to  have  given  them  fomething,  than  to  fine  them  and  fend 
'  them  to  prifon,  fome  of  whom  live  upon  the  charity  of 
'  others.  What  honour  or  grace  can  it  be  to  thee  to  caft 
'  thy  poor  neighbours  into  prifon,  who  are  peaceable  ;  fee- 
'  ing  thou  knoweft  thefe  people  cannot  do  that  which  thou 
'  requireft  of  them,  if  it  were  to  dwe.  their  lives  or  all  that 
'  they  have  ?  liecaufe  in  tendernefs  they  cannot  take  any 
■  oath,  thou  makeft  that  a  fnare  to  them.  What  thinkeft 
'  thou  do  the  people  fiiy  concerning  this  ?  ''  We  know," 
'  fay  they,  "  the  Quakers  principle  that  keep  to  Yea  and 
'■'  Nay  ;  but  we  fee  others  (wear  and  forfwear."  Many  of 
'  vou  have  fworn  firft  one  way  and  then  another.      So  we 

■  \^M..    II.  / 


4«  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1663 

*  leave  it  to  the  Spirit  of  God  in  thy  confcience,  juftice 
'  Fleming,  who  waft  lb  eager  for  the  taking  of  George  Fox, 
'  and  fo  offended  with  them  that  had  not  taken  him,  and 
'  no;\^  haft  fallen  upon  thy  poor  neighbours.  But  oh  ! 
'  where's  thy  pity  for  their  poor,  fatherlefs  children,  and 
'  rnotherlefs  infants  ?  Oh  !  take  heed  of  Herod's  hard-heart- 
'  ednefs,  and  cafting  av/ay  all  pity  !  Efau  did  fo,  not  Jacob. 
'  Here  is  alio  Thomas  Walters,  of  Bolton,  caft  into  prifon, 

*  and  the  oath  im.pofed  on  him  through  thee,  and  for  deny- 
'  ing  to  fwear  at  all,  in  obedience  to  Chrift's  command,  he 

*  is  continued  in  prifon,  who  hath  five  fmall  children  and 
'  his  wife  near  down-lying.  Surely,  thou  fhouldeft  take 
'  care  for  them  alfo,  and  fee  that  his  wife  and  fmall  children 
'  do    not    want,  who  are  as   fatherlefs  and  fhe   as  a  widow 

*  through  thee.  Doft  thou  not  hear  in  thy  ears  the  cry  of 
'  the  fatherlefs,  the  cry  of  the  widows,  and  the  blood  ot  the 
'  innocent  fpeak,  who  through  thee  have  been  perfecuted  to 
'  prifon,  and  are  now  dead  ?  Oh  !  heavy  fentence  at  the 
'  day  of  judgment!    How  wilt  thou  anfwer,  when  thou  and 

*  thy  works  com.e  to  be  judged,  when  thou  fhalt  be  brought 
'  before  the  judgment-feat  of  the  Almighty,  who  in  thy  prof- 
'  perity  haft  made  widov/s  and  fatherlefs  for  righteoufnefs- 
«  fake,  and  for  tendernefs  of  confcience  towards  God  ?  The 
'  Lord  knows  and  fees  it !  O  man  !  confider  in  thy  life-time 
'  how  thou  haft  ftained  thyfelf  with  the  blood  of  the  inno- 
'  cent !  When  thou  had'ft  power  and  might'ft  have  done 
•'  good  amongft   thy   peaceable  neighbours,  thou    would'ft 

*  not  :  but  ufedft  thy  power  not  to  a  good  intent,  but  con- 
'  trary  to  the  Lord's  mind  and  to  the  king's.  The  king's 
'  favour,  mercy,  and  clemency   to  fober  people  and  tender 

*  confciences  hath  been  manifefted  by  declarations  and  pro- 

*  cJamations,  which  thou  haft  abufed  and  flighted  by  perfe- 
'  cuting  his  peaceable  fubjecls.  At  London  and  in  other 
'  parts  the  Quakers  meetings  are  peaceable  ;  and  if  thou  look 
'  but  as  far  as  Yorkftiire,  where  the  plot  hath  been,  friends 
'  innorency  hath  cleared  itfelf  in  the  hearts  of  fober  juftices ; 
'  and  for  you  here  to  fall  upon  your  peaceable  neighbouri; 
'  and  people,  and  to  be  rigorous  and  violent  againft  them 
'  that  are  tender,  godly,  and  righteous,  it  is  no  honour  to 
'  you.  How  many  drunkards,  fwearers,  and  fighters,  and 
'  inch  as  are  fubjetl;  to  vice,  have  you  caufed  to  be  brought 
'  before  you  to  your  courts  ?  It  were  more  honourable  for 
'  you  to  look  after  fuch  ;  for  the  law  was  not  made  for  the 
'  righieou-s,    bat  for   finrters   and   tranfgre ftbrs.     Therefore 


1663]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  43 

*  confider,  and  be  humbled  for  thefe  things ;  for  the  Loid 

*  may  do  to  thee  as  thou  haft  done  to  others  ;  and  thou  doft 

*  not  know  how  foon  there  may  be  a  cry  in  thy  own  family, 

*  as  the  cry  is  amongft  thy  neighbours,  of  the  fatherlefs  and 
'  widows  that  are  made  fo  through  thee.     But  the  Quakers 

*  can  and  do  fay,  "  The  Lord  forgive  thee,  and  lay  not  thefe 
"  things  to  thy  charge,  if  it  be  his  will." 

Befides  this,  which  went  in  the  name  of  many,  I  fent  him 
alfo  a  line  or  two,  fubfcnbed  by  myfelf  only,  and  diretled 

•  To  Daniel  Fleming. 
*  Friend, 

*  nr^HOU  haft  imprifoned  the  fervants  of  the  Lord,  with- 

*  A.  out  the  breach  of  any  law  ,  therefore  take  lieed  what 

*  thou  doft  (for  in  the  light  of  the  Lord  God  thou  art  feen) 

*  left  the  hand  of  the  Lord  be  turned  againft  thee  !' 

'  G.  F.' 

It  was  not  long  after  this,  ere  Fleming's  wife  died,  and 
left  him  thirteen  or  fourteen  motherlefs  children. 

When  I  was  prifoner  at  Lancafter,  there  was  prifoner  al- 
fo one  major  Wiggan,  a  Baptift-preacher.  He  boafted 
much  before-hand  what  he  would  fay  at  the  aflize,  if  the 
oath  fliould  be  put  to  him  ;  and  that  he  would  refufe  to 
fwear.  But  when  the  affize  came,  and  the  oath  was  ten- 
dered him,  he  defired  time  to  confider  of  it;  and  that  being 
granted  him  till  the  next  affize.  he  got  leave  to  go  to  Lon- 
don before  the  affize  came  again,  and  (laid  at  London  till  the 
plague  broke  forth,  and  there  both  he  and  his  wife  were  cut 
ofF.  He  was  a  very  wicked  man,  and  the  judgments  of 
God  came  upon  him ;  for  he  had  publiflied  a  very  wicked 
book  againft  friends,  full  of  lies  and  blafphemies  ;  the  occa- 
fion  of  which  was  this.  Whilft  he  was  in  Lancafter  caftle, 
he  challenged  friends  to  a  difpute.  Whereupon  I  got  leave 
of  the  gaoler  to  go  up  to  them.  And  entering  into  difcourfe 
with  him,  he  affirmed,  '  That  fome  men  never  had  the  Spi.- 

*  rit  of  God,  and  that  the  true  light,  which  enlightcneth  evc- 

*  ry  one  that  cometh  into  the  world,  is  natural,'  For  proof 
of  his  firft  affertion,  he  inftanced  Balaam,  affirming,  '  Ba- 
'  laam  had  not  the  Spirit  of  God,'  I  affirmed  and  proved, 

*  That  Balaam  had  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  that  wicked  men 

*  have  the  Spirit  of  God,  elfe  how  could  they  quench  it, 

*  vex  it^  grieve  it,  and  refill  the  Holy  Ghoft,  like  the  ftifr- 

f  2 


44  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1663 

'  necked  Jews  ?'  To  his  fccond  aflfertion,  I  anfwered,  '  That 
'  the  true  Hght,  which  enhghtencth  every  man  that  cometh 
'  into  the  world,  was  the  hfe  in  the  world,  and  that  was  di-, 
'  vine  and  eternal,  and  not  natural.  And  he  might  as  well 
'  fay,  the  word  was  natural  as  that  the  life  in  the  word  was 
'  natural.  And  wicked  men  were  enlightened  by  this  light, 
'  elfe  how  could  they  hate  it  ?  It  is  exprefsly  laid,  they  did 
'  hate  it;  and  the  reafon  given  why,  was,  "  becaufe  their 
'-  deeds  were  evil ;"  and  they  would  not  come  to  it,  becaufe 
'  it  reproved  them  ;  and  that  muft  needs  be  in  them,  which 
'  reproved  them.  Befidcs,  that  light  could  not  be  the  fcripr 
*  tures  of  the  New-Teilament ;  lor  it  was  teftified  of  before 
'  any  part  of  the  New-Teftament  was  written  ;  fo  it  muft 
'  be  by  the  Divine  Light,  v/hich  is  the  life  in  Chrift,  the 
'  Word,  before  the  fcriptures  were.  And  the  grace  of  God, 
'  which  brought  falvation,  had  appeared  unto  all  men,  and 
'  taught  the  faints ;  but  they  that  turned  from  it  into  wan- 
'  tonnefs,  and  walked  defpitefully  againft  the  Spirit  of 
'  Grace,  were  the  wicked.  Again,  the  Spirit  of  Truth,  the 
'  Holy  Ghoft,  the  Comforter,  which  leads  the  difciples  of 
'  Chrift  into  all  truth,  the  fame  fliould  reprove  the  world 
'  of  fin,  of  righteoufnefs,  of  judgment,  and  of  their  unbelief. 
'  So  the  wicked  world  had  it  to  reprove  them,  and  the  true 
'  difciples  and  learners  of  Chrift,  that  believed  in  the  light 
'  as  Chrift  commands,  had  it  to  lead  them.  But  the  world 
'  that  did  not  believe  in  the  light,  though  they  were  lighted, 
'  but  hated  the  light  which  they  ftiould  have  believed  in,  and 
'  loved  the  daiknefs  rather  than  it,  this  world  had  a  right- 
'  eoufnefs  and  a  judgment,  v/hich  the  Holy  Ghoft  reproved 
'  them  for,  as  well  as  for  their  unbelict.'  Having  proved, 
that  the  good  and  the  bad  were  enlightened,  that  the  Grace 
ot"  God  had  appeared  unto  all,  and  that  all  had  the  Spirit  of 
God,  elfe  thcv  could  not  vex  and  grieve  it,  I  told  major 
Wiggan,  The  leaft  babe  there  might  ice  him ;  and  prefcntly 
ftood  up  one  Richard  Cubham,  and  proved  him  an  anti- 
chrifl  and  a  deceiver  by  fcripture.  I'hen  the  gaoler  had 
me  awa)'  to  my  prifon  again.  Afterwards  Wiggan  wrote 
a  book  of  this  difpute,.and  put  in  abundance  of  abominable 
lies ;  which  was  foon  anfwered  in  print,  and  himfelf  was 
not  long  after  crit  oft,  as  aforefaid. 

This  Wiggan  v.'as  poor,  and  while  he  was  prifoner  at 
Lancafter  he  lent  into  the  country,  and  got  money  gathered 
for  relief  of  the  poor  people  of  God  in  prifon;  and  manv 
people  ga\'e  frcel}',  thinking  it  had  been  for  us.  when  ia^ 


j663]  GEORGE    FOX'S    journal.  45 

deed  it  was  for  himfelf.  But  when  we  heard  of  it,  we  laid 
it  upon  him,  and  wrote  into  the  country,  that  friends  might 
let  the  people  know  the  truth  of  the  matter,  that  it  was  not 
our  manner  to  have  coUcQions  made  for  us,  and  that  thofe 
colle6lions  were  only  for  Wiggan  and  another,  a  drunken 
preacher  of  his  fociety  :  who  w'as  fo  drunk,  that  once  he 
Joft  his  breeches. 

After  this  it  came  upon  me  to  write  to  the  judges  and 
other  magiflrates  concerning  their  '  giving  evil  v.'ords  and 
'  nick-names  to  fuch  as  were  brought  before  them.'  Which 
was  after  this  manner. 

*  To  all  judges  or  other  officers  whatfoever  in  the  whole 
'  world,  who  profefs  yourfelves  to  be  Chrillians. 

*  Friends, 

'  T  TEREIN  and  by  reading  the  fcriptures,  ye  may  fee 

*  X  JL  both  your  own  words  and  behaviour,  and  the  words 

*  and  praftice  of  both  Jews  and  Heathens,  and  of  the  King 

*  of  kings,    the    great   Lawgiver   and  Judge  of  the   whole 

*  World.      Firft,  concerning  the  words  and  carriage  of  the 

*  Jews,  when  fome  worthy  of  death  were  brought  before  the 

*  rulers  amongfl;  them.      When  Achan  had  taken  the  Ba- 

*  bylonifh  garment,  the  two  hundred  fliekels  of  filver,  and 
«  the  wedge  of  gold  of  fifty  fliekels  v/ eight,  and  Jofhua, 
'  who  was  then  judge  of  Ifrael,  had  by  the  lot  difcovered 
«  him,  he  did  not  call  him,  Sirrah,  nor  you  Rafcal,  Knave, 

*  Rogue,  as  fome,  called  Chriflian  magiflrates,  are  too  apt 
'  to  do.  But  Jolhua  laid  unto  Achan,  "  My  fon."  Mark 
'  his  clean  language,  favoury  exprefTion,  •  and  gracious 
'  words.  "  My  fon,"  faid  he,  "  give,  I  pray  thee,  glory  to 
"  the  Lord  God  of  Ifrael,  and  make  confeffion  unto  him, 
•'  and  tell  me  now  what  thou  hafl  done,  hide  it  not  Irom 
"  me."     Then  Achan  confeifed,  that  he  had  finned  againft 

*  the  Lord  God  of  Ifrael,  and  thus  and  thus  he  had  done. 
'  Then  Jofhua,  the  judge,  faid,  "  Why  hafl  thou  troubled 
"  Ifrael  ?  The  Lord  (hall  trouble  thee  this  day ;  and  they 
"  ftoned  him  and  his  with  flones,  and  burned  his  goods 
"  with  fire."  But  there  was  no  unfavoury  word  given 
'  him  that  we  read  of,  though  he  was  worthy  of  death, 
'  Jofh.  vii. 

'  So  when  the  man.   that  gathered  flicks  upon  the  fab- 

*  bath-day,  was  taken  and  brought  before  Moies,  the  judge 
^  of  Ifrael,  and  put  in  ward   till  the   mind  of  the  Lord 


4<5  -GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1664 

'  was  known  concerning  him,  we  read  not  of  any  reviling 
'  Janguagc  given  liim ;  but  the  Lord  faid  to  Mofes,  and 
'  Moles  to  tlie  people,  "  The  man  Ihall  furely  be  put  to 
"  death/'  Numb.  xv.  ^r^ 

*  Likewifc  in  the  rebellion  of  Corah,   Dathan  and  Abi- 

*  ram,   when  Mofes  called  them  to  trial,   h^  did  not  hrrah 

*  them  nor  milhame  tlicm ;  but  faid  to  Corah  and  the  reft, 
^'  Hear,  I  prav  you,  ye  fons  of  Levi,"  Numb.  xvi.  8.  And 
'  when  he  gave  the  fentence  again fh  them,  he  faid,  "  If 
"  thcfe  men  die  the  common  death  of  all  men,"  &c.  He 
'  did  not  fay,  If  thefe  Rafcals  or  Knaves,  as  many  that 
profefs  themfelves  Chriftians  now  do. 

'  When  Elihu  fpoke  to  Job,  who  was  a  judge,  and  to 
'  his  friends,  and  faid,  "  Let  me  not,  I  pray  you,  accept  of 
"  any  man's  perfon,  neither  let  me  give  flattering  titles  unto 
'*  man,  for  I  know  not  to  give  flattering  titles;  in  fo  doing 
*'  my  Maker  would  foon  take  me  away."  Job  xxxii.     Job 

*  did  not  fay,  "  Sirrah,  hold  thy  tongue ;"  nor  gave  him 

*  any  unfavoury  expreflion.     The  words  of  ID.avid,   Solo- 

*  mon,  and  other  kings  and  officers,  fee  in  the  books  of  the 

*  Kings  and  Chronicles,  the  favoury  language  they  gave  to 

*  them  that  were  brought  before  them.      Nay,  though  Shi- 

*  mei  curfed  David  the  king,  yet  neither  did  David  then  or 

*  afterward,  nor  Solomon  when  he  caufed  him  to  be  put  to 
'  death,  give  him  any  reproachful  language,  or  fo  much  as 

*  call  him  vSirrah,  2  Sam.  xvi.  and  1  Kings  ii. 

'  Read  the  prophecies  of  Ifaiah,  Micah,  Jeremiah,  Eze- 
'  kicl,  and  the  relt  of  the  prophets,  who  propheficd  to  dif- 
'  forent  people,  and  againil  rulers,  kings,  and  magiftrates; 
'  yet  where  can  it  be  found,  that  they  had  any  bad  language 
■  given  them,  as  Sirrah  or  the  like,  hy  any  ruler  either  of 
'  the  Jews  or  Heathens  ?  Nay,  though  Jeremiah  was  caft 
"'  into  prifon,  and  into  the  dungeon,  yet  there  was  no  fuch 
'  word  as  Sirrah  or  Knave  given  him,  Jer.  xxxvii. 

'  Refpefting  tlie  words  and  carriage  of  the  Heathens. 
"'  "When  Abraham  was  before  Abimelech,  who  was  a  king, 

*  he  gave  Abrah.am  no  unfavoury  cxprcffions,  Gen.  xx. 
When  Ifaac  c;ime  before  Abimelech,  he  gave  him  no 
'  tr'unting  language.  Gen.  xxvi.  When  Jofeph  was  caft 
'  into  prifon,  and  that  in  Egypt,  we  do  not  read  he  had 
'  any  railing  language  given  him,  Gen.  xxxix.  Neither 
■'  dill  Pharaoh,  when  Mofes  and  Aaron  appeared  before 
'  him,  give  them  bad  language,  as  Sirrah.  Knave  or  the 
'  like. 


j664]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  47 

<  When  Nebuchadnezzar  fentenced  the  three  children  to 
'  the  fiery  furnace,  there  was  no  fuch  language  given  them 
•'  as  Sirrah,  Knave,  Rafcal ;  but  they  were,  called  by  the 
'  names  they  were  known  by,  Dan.  iii.  V/hen  Daniel  was 
'  brought  before  king  Darius,  and  fentenced  to  be  call  into 
'  the  lion's  den,  he  had  no  fuch  ill  names  given  him,  as 
•'  many  give  now,  who  call  thofe  Heathen  rulers,  but  them- 
'  felves  Chriftians. 

'  If  ye  look  into  the  New-Teftament,  in  the  parable  of 
'  the  wedding-fupper,  the  king  that  came  to  view  his  gueds 
'  did  not  fay  to  him  that  was  found  without  a  wedding- 

*  garment,  "  Sirrah,  how  cameft  thou  in  hither  ?"  but, 
"  Friend,  how  cameft  thou  in  hither  ?"  &c.  though  he  was 
'  to  be  bound  hand  and  foot,  and  "  caft  into  utter  darknefs," 
'  Matth.  xxii.  Nay,  when  Judas  had  betrayed  his  mafter, 
'  Jefus  Chrift,  the  Lord  of  Life,  and  fold  him  to  the  priefts, 
'  Chrift  did  not  call  him  Sirrah,  when  he  came  to  appre- 

*  hend  him,  but  Friend,  Matth.  xxvi.  50.  Stephen,  in  his 
'  examination,  fentence,  and  death  had  no  fuch  reproachful 

*  word  given  him,  as  Sirrah  or  Knave,  A 61s  vi.  Sc  vii.  chap. 
'  When  the  apoftles  Peter  and  John  were  brought  before 

*  the  high-prieft  and  rulers  of  the  Jews,  and  commanded 
'  not  to  preach  in  the  name  of  Jefus,  Acls  iv.  they  were 
'  not  called  Sirrahs  or  Knaves,  nor  had  any  fuch  ill  names 
*'  given  them.  When  Paul  and  Silas  were  caft  into  prifon 
'  by  the  magiftrates,   A6ls  xvi.  they  called  them  men,  no£ 

*  Rogues,  Sirrahs,  nor  Knaves.  And  when  the  magiftrates 
'  had  done  contrary  to  law  they  feared.  So  ye  may  fee 
'  how  fhort  of  this  example  many  are  that  call  themfelves 
'  Chriftian  rulers,  who  are  not  afraid  to  caft  iimocent  peo- 

*  pie  into  prifon,  and  give  them  ill  names  belides,  below 

*  both  Jews  and  Heathens. 

'  When  the  uproar  was  at  Ephefus  about  Diana's  ftirine, 
'  Demetrius,  who  bore  great  fway  among  the  craftfmen,  did 
'  not  call  Paul  Sirrah,  but  Paul,  Acts  xix.  When  Paul 
■  v^'as  brought  prifoner  before  the  high-prieft  Ananias  and 
'  the  council  of  the  Jews,  and  told  them,  ''  He  had  lived 
"in  all  good  confcience  towards  God  until  that  day;" 
'  though  they,  who  profefted  the  fcripturcs  but  lived  or/t  of 
'  the  life  of  them,  could  not  abide  to  hear  of  living  in  a 
'  good  confcience,  as  profeiTors  of  the  fcriptures  now,  that 
'  live  not  in  the  life,  cannot  abide  to  hear  of  living  in  a 
'  good  confcience  now-a-days ;   but  Ananias  caufed  P.sul  to 

*  be  "  fmitten  on  the  mouth;"  vet  he  did  not  call  Irhu  Kiiave 


48  GEORGE    FGX's    JOURNAL.  [1664 

'  nor  Sirrah,  Ads  xxiii.  The  apoflate  Jews  indeed,  who, 
'  though  they  profeffed  fcripfure,  were  out  of  the  Hfe  thcre- 
'  of,  and  had  rejected  Chrift,  in  accufing  Paul  before  the 
'  Roman  magiilrates,  did  once  call  him  a  Peftilent  Fellow, 
'  A6ls  xxiv.  as  the  accufing  profelTors,  who  live  out  of  the 
'  life,  fometimes  call  us  now.     But  neither  Felix,   Feftus, 

*  nor  king  Agrippa,  in  all  their  examinations,  gave  Paul 
'  any  fuch  words  as  Sirrah,   Rafcal,   Knave,  or  the  like,  but 

*  heard  him  patiently.  So  Chriftians  may  fee  through  all 
'  the  fcriptures,  when  perfons  were  brought  before  rulers, 
'  kings,  or  magiftrates,  whether  Jews  or  Heathens,  they  did 
'  not  ufeto  call  them  evil  names,  as  Sirrah,  Rafcal,  Knave, 
'  and  the  like.  They  had  no  fuch  foul-mouth'd  language  in 
'  their  courts.  Nor  did  they  ufe  to  fay  to  them,  "  Sirrah, 
"  put  off  your  hat."  Now,  ye  that  profefs  chriftianity, 
'  and  (ay  the  '•  fcripture  is  your  rale,"  may  fee  that  more 

*  corrupt  words  proceed  out  of  your  mouths  than  either  out 
'  of  the  Jews  or  Heathens,  if  ye  will  try  your  praftice  by 
'  the  fcriptures  ;  and  doth  not  the  apoftle  tell  you,  that 
'  no   corrupt  communication   fhould    proceed  out  of  your 

*  mouths  ?  and  that  your  words  fhould  be  gracious  ?  I 
'  quer^,  Where  and  whence  ye  that  call  yourfelves  Chrifli- 
'  ans  have  got  all  thefe  bad  words  and  names,  feeing  neither 
'  God  nor  Chrift,  the  prophets,  judges,  kings,  nor  rulers 
'  ever  gave  any  fuch  names,  fo  far  as  appears  by  fcripture, 
'  either  amongft  Heathens,  Jews,  or  Chriftians  ? 

*  G.  F.' 

Before  the  next  aflizes  there  was  a  quarter-feflions  held  at 
Lancafter  by  the  juftices.  To  which,  though  we  were  not 
brought,  I  put  friends  upon  drawing  up  an  account  of 
their  fulferings,  and  laying  them  before  the  juftices  in  their 
open  feffions.  For  friends  had  fuffered  deeply  by  fines  and 
dillrelfes,  the  bailiff^s  and  officers  making  great  havoc  and 
fpoil  of  their  goods  ;  but  no  redrefs  was  aft^orded. 

And  becaufe  fome  evil-minded  magiftratcs  would  tell  us 
fometimes  of  the  late  plot  in  the  north,  we  gave  forth  the 
following  paper  to  ftop  their  mouths,  and  to  clear  truth  and 
friends  therefrom. 


1664]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  49 

'  A  Teflimony  from  the  people  of  God,  whom  the  world 
*  calls  Quakers,  to  all  the  magiflrates  and  officers  of 
'  what  fort  foever,  from  the  higheft  to  the  loweft. 

<  WJ^  are  peaceable,  and    feek  the  peace,  good,  and 

<  V  V  welfare  of  all,  as  in  our  lives  and  peaceable  carria- 
'  ges  is  manifefted,  and  we  dcfire  the  eternal  good  of  all, 

*  and  their  fouls  everlafling  peace.  We  are  become  heirs 
'  of  the   bleffing  before  the  curfe  was,  and  of  the  power  of 

*  God  before   the  devil    was,  and  before   the  fall  of  man. 

*  We  are  heirs  of  the  gofpel  of  peace,  which  is  the  power 

*  of  God;  we  are  heirs  of  Chrift,  who  have  inherited  him 

*  and  his  everlafling  kingdom,  and  do  polfefs  the  power  of 

*  an  endlefs  life.  Knowing  this  our  portion  and  inherit- 
'  ance,  this  is  to  take  ofF  all  jealoufies  out  of  your  minds, 

*  and  out  of  the  minds  of  all   concerning  us,    that  all  plots 

*  and  confpiracies,  plotters  and  confpirators  againfl  the  king, 

*  and  all  aiders  or  affillers  thereunto  we  always  did  and  do 

*  utterly  deny  to  be  of  us,  or  to  be  of  the  fellowfliip  of  the  . 
'  gofpel,  of  Chrift's  kingdom,  or  his  fervants.      For  Chriit, 

*  laid,  "  His  kingdom  was  not  of  this  world,  if  it  were  his 
"  fervants  would  fight."  '  Therefore  he  bid  Peter,  "  put  up 
*'  his  fword ;  for,"  laid  he,  '  •  he  that  taketh  the  Iword  Ihail 
"  perifh  by  the  fword."  Here  is  the  faith  and.  patience  of 
'  the  faints,  to  bear  and  fufFer  all  things,  knowing  venge- 
'  ance  is  the  Lord's,  and  he  will  repay  it  to  them  that  hurt 
'  his   people  and  wrong  the  innocent ;  therefore  cannot  we 

*  avenge  but  fufFer  for  his  name's  fake.  We  know  that  the 
'  Lord  will  judge  the  world  in  righteoufnefs  according  to 
'  their  deeds,  and  that,  when  every  one  fhall  give  an  ac- 
'  count  to  him  of  the  "  deeds  done  in  the  body,"  then  will 
'  the  Lord  give  every  man  according  to  his  works,  whether 
'  they  be  good  or  evil.  Chrift  faith,  he  came  not  to  "  def- 
"  troy  men's  lives ;"'  and  when  his  difciples  would  have  had 
"  fire  to  come  down  from  heaven,"  to  have  confumed  thofe 

*  that  did  not  receive  him,  he  told  them,  "  They  knew  not 
"  what  fpirit  they  were  of,"  they  would  have  men's  lives 
'  deflroyed  -,  therefore  he  rebuked  them,  and  told  them, 
"  That  he  came  not  to  deflioy  men's  lives,  but  to  fave 
''  them."  We  are  of  Chrift's  mind,  who  is  the  great  pro- 
'  phet,  whom  all  ought  to  hear  in  all  things,  who  com- 
'  mandeth  his,  *'  If  they  ftrike  thee  on  one  cheek  turn  the 
"  other,  and  render  to  no  man  evil    for  evil."     This  doc- 

*  trine  of  his  wc  have  learned,  and  not  only  confcfs  him  in 

Vol.   IL  g 


50  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1664 

'  words,  but  follow  his  doftrine ;  and  therefore  we  fufFer 
'  all  manner  of  reproaches,  fcandals,  flanders,  fpoiling  of 
'  goods,  bufFetings,  whippings,  flripes,  and  impnfonments 

*  for  thefe  many  years,  and  can  fay,  "  The  Lord  forgive 
"  them  that  have  thus  ferved  us,  and  lay  not  thefe  things  to 
"  their  charge !"  We  know  the  Jews  outward  fword,  by 
'  which  they  cut  down  the  Heathen  outwardly,  was  a  type 

*  of  the  inward  fword  of  the  Spirit,  which  cuts  down  the  in- 

*  ward  Heathen,  the  raging  nature  in  people.     The  blood 

*  of  bulls,  lambs,  rams,  ajid  other  offerings,  and  that  priefl:- 

*  hood  which  oflPered  them,  together  with  other  things  in 
'  the  lav/,  were  types  of  Chrift,  the  one  offering,  and  of 

*  his  blood,  who  is  the  everlafling  prieft  and  covenant,  our 
'  life,  and  way  to  God,  the  great  prophet  and  fhepherd, 
'  the  head  of  his  church,  and  the  great  bifhop  of  our  fouls, 
'  whom  we  witnefs  come;  he  doth  overfee  and  keep  his  flock. 
'  For  in  Adam,  in  the  fall,  we  know  the  llriving,  quarrel- 
'  ling,  unpeaceable  fpirits  are  at  enmity  one  with  another, 

*  and  not  in  peace ;  but  in  Chrift  Jefus,  the  fecond  Adam, 
'  that  never  fell,  is  peace,  reft,  and  life.  The  do6lrine  of 
'  Chrift,  who  never  finned,  is  to  *'  love  one  another,"  and 
'  thofe  who  are  in  this  do£lrine  hurt  no  man,  in  which  we 

*  are,  in  Chrift,  who  is  our  life.  Therefore  it  is  well  for 
'  you  to  diftinguifti  betwixt  the  precious  and  the  vile,  be- 
'  tween  them  that  fear  God  and  ferve  him  and  them  that  do 
'  not,  and  to  put  a  difference  between  the  innocent  and  the 
'  guilty,  between  him  that  is  holy  and  pure  and  the  ungod- 
'  ly   and  prophane  ;  for  they  that  do  not  fo,  bring  troubles, 

*  burdens,  and  forrows  upon  themfelves.  This  we  write  in 
'  love  to  your  fouls,  that  ye  may  confider  thefe  things ;  for 
'  thofe  that  hate  enemies,  and  one  another,  we  cannot  fay  they 
'  are  of  God,  nor  in  Chrift's  doftrine,  but  are  oppofers  of  it. 
'  And  fuch  as  wreftle   with   flefh  and  blood,    with  carnai 

*  weapons,  are  gone  into  the  flefh  out  of  the  Spirit.  They 
'  are  not  in  our  fellowfhip  in  the  Spirit,  in  which  is  the  bond 
'  of  peace,  neither  are  they  of  us,  nor  have  we  unity  with 
'  them  in  their  flellily  ftate,  and  with  their  carnal  weapons. 
'  For  our  unity  and  fcliovv'fhip  ftands  in  the  gofpel,  which 
'  is  the  power  of  God,  before  the  devil  was,  the  liar,  the 
'  murderer,  the  man-flayer,  and  the  envious.  Chriii's  mind 
'  and  his  doclrine  being  to  fave  men's  lives,  we  who  are  of 
'  Chrift's  mind  are  oat  of  and  above  thefe  things.      Ourde- 

*  fire  is,  that  in  the  feur  of  the  Lord  yc  mi\.y  live,  thjit  there- 


1664]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ^i 

*  in  ye  may  receive  God's  wifdom,  by  which  all  things  were 

*  created,  that  by  it  all  may  be  ordered  to  his  glory. 

'  This  is  from  them  that  love  all  your  fouls, 
'  and  feek  your  eternal  good.' 

Being  prifoner  in  Lancafler  caftle,  a  deep  fenfe  came  up- 
on me  of  a  day  of  fore  trial  and  exercife  that  was  come  and 
coming  upon  all  who  had  been  high  in  profefiion  of  religion  ; 
and  I  was  moved  to  give  forth  the  following  paper  as  a 
warning  to  fuch  : 

*  "XTOW  is  the  day  that  every  one's  faith  and  love  to 

*  JL\|    God  and   Chrifl   will   be  tried;   who  are  redeemed 

*  out  of  the  earth,   and  who  are  in  the  earth  will  be  mani- 

*  fefled ;    who  is  the  mafter  they  ferve,  and  whether  they 

*  will  run  to  the  mountains  to  cover  them.      Now  will  it 

*  appear  who  are  the  ftony-ground,   who  are  the  thorny- 

*  ground,  and  who  are  the  high-way-ground,  in  whom  the 
'  fowls  of  the  air  take  away  the  feed,  the  thorns  and  cares 

*  of  the  world  choke,  and  the  heat  of  perfecution  fcorches 

*  and  burns  up   your  green  blade ;   for  the  day  trieth  all 

*  things.     Therefore  let  not  fuch  as  forfake  truth  for  faving 

*  the  earth  fay,  that  your  brother  priefl  only  "  ferveth  not 
"  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift  but  his  own  belly,  and  mindeth 
"  earthly  things ;"  for  themfelves  alfo  do  the  fame,  do  hug 

*  and  embrace  felf  and  not  the  Lord.  Now  it  v/ill  be  made 
'  manifefl   who   is  every  one's  God,   Chrift,   and  Saviour, 

*  and  their  love  will  be  manifefl,  whether  it  be  of  the  world 

*  or  the  love  of  God ;  for  if  it  be  the  love  of  the  world,  it 
'  is  enmity,   and  the  enmity  will  manifeft  itfelf  what  it  is  ; 

*  and  the  day  will  try  every  fpirit  and  his  fruits.      Therefore, 

*  my  dear  friends,  in  the  everiafting  feed  of  God  live,  that 
'  is  over  all  the  houfe  of  Adam  and  his  works   in  the  f^ill  ; 

*  dwelling  in  the  feed,   Chrift,  that   never  fell,  in  him  you 

*  all  have  virtue,  life,  and  peace,  and  through  him  ye  will 

*  overcome  all  that  is  in  the  fill.  '  G.   F.' 

I  wrote  alfo  another  ftiort  epiftlc  to  friends,  to  warn  them 
to  keep  out  of  that  fpirit  that  wrought  in  John  Perrot  and 
his  company  againft  the  truth. 


D 


Dear  friends, 

WELL  in  the  love  of  God,  and  in  his  righteoufncfs, 
that  will  preferve  you  above  all  unclean  and  change- 


52.  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1664. 

'  able   fpirits,  that  dwell  not  in  the   truth  but  in  quarrels. 

*  Av'oid  fuch,  and  keep  your  habitations  in  the  truth. 
'  Dwell  in  the  truth,  and  in  the  word  of  God,  by  which  ye 

*  are  reconciled  to  him.  Keep  your  meetings  in  the  name 
'  of  Jefus  Chrift,  who  never  fell ;   then  you  will  fee  over  all 

*  the  gatherings   of  Adam's  fons  and  daughters,  you  being 

*  met   in   the  life  over  them  all,  in    which    is  your   unity, 

*  peace  and  fellowfhip  with  God,  and  one  with  another,  in 
'  the  life,  wherein  ye  may  enjoy  God's  prefence  among  you. 

*  So  remember  me   to  all  friends   in  the  everlafting  feed  of 

*  God.      All  that  are  got  into  fellowfhip  in  outward  things, 

*  their  fellowfhip  will  corrupt,  and  wither   away.     There- 

*  fore  live  in  the  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  which  power  of 

*  God  the  gofpel  was  before  the  devil  was.      This  fellowfhip 

*  in  the   gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  is  a  myffery  to  all  the 

*  fellowfhips  in  the  world.  So  look  over  all  outward  fuffer- 
'  ings,  and  eye  the  Lord  and  the  Lamb,  who  is  the  Fnft 
'  and  Lafl,  the  Amen ;  in  whom  farewell. 

'  G.  F.' 

In  the  fixth  month  the  afTizes  were  held  again  at  Lancafler, 
and  the  fame  judges,  Twifden  and  Turner,  came  that  cir- 
cuit again;  but  judge  Turner  then  fate  on  the  crown-bench, 
fo  I  was  brought  before  him.  Before  I  was  called  to  the 
bar,  I  was  put  among  murderers  and  felons  for  about  the 
fpace  of  two  hours,  the  people,  the  juflices,  and  the  judge 
alfo  gazing  upon  me.  After  they  had  tried  fevcral  others, 
they  called  me  to  the  bar,  and  impanelled  a  jury.  Then 
the  judge  afked  the  juflices,  '  Whether  they  had  tendered 
'  me  the  oath  at  the  fefiions  ?'  They  faid,  '  They  had.' 
Then  he  bid,  '  Give  them  the  bock,   that  they  might  fwear 

*  they  had  tendered  me  the  oath  at  the  fefTions/    They  faid, 

*  They  had.'     Then  he  bid,   '  Give  them  the  book,    that 

*  they  might  fwear  they  had  tendered  me  the  oath  according 

*  to  the  indidment.'  Some  of  the  juflices  refufed  to  be 
fworn;  but  the  judge  faid,  he  would  have  it  done  to  take 
away  all  occahon  of  exception.  When  the  jury  were  fworn, 
and  the  juflices  had  fworn  '  they  had  tendered  the  oath  ac- 
'  cording  to  the  indictment,'  the  judge  aflced  nie,  '  Whether 
'  I  had  not  refufed  the  oath  at  the  lafl  afh/.vs  ?'  I  faid,  '  I 
'  never  took  an  oath  in  my  life,  and  Chrifl,  tlie  Sa\'iour 
'  and  judge  of  the  World,  laid,  "  Swear  not  at  all."  The 
jurlae  feemed  not  to  take  notice  of  my  anfwcr;  but  afked  me, 
'  Whether  or  no  I  had  not  refufed  to  take  the  oaih  at  the 


i664l  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  53 

*  laft  aflize  ?'  I  faid,  '  The  words  that  I  then  fpoke  to  them 
'  were,  that  if  they  could  prove,  either  judge,  jufliices,  pried, 
'  or  teacher,  that  after  Chrift  and  the  apoille  had  forbidden 
'  fwearing,  they  commanded  that  Chriftians  fhould  fvvear, 

*  I  would  fwear.'  The  judge  foid,  '  He  was  not  at  that  time 
'  to  difpute  whether  it  was  lawful  to  fwear,  but  to  inquire 

*  whether  I  had  refufed  to  take  the  oath  or  no.'  I  told 
him,  '  Thofe  things  mentioned  in  the  oath,  as  plotting 
^  againft  the  king,  and  owning  the  pope's  or  any  other  fo- 

*  reign  power,  I  utterly  deny.'  '  Well,'  laid  he,  '  you  fay 
'  well  in  that;  but  did  you  deny  to  take  the  oath  ?  What 
'  fay  you?    Wkat  wouldft  thou  have  me  to  fay?'   faid  T, 

*  for  I  have  told  thee  before  what  I  did  fay/  Then  he 
afked  me,  '  If  I  would  have  thefe  men  to  fwear  that  I  had 

*  taken  the  oath  ?'   I  aiked  him,   '  If  he  would  ha^'e  thofe 

*  men  to  fwear  that  I  had  refufed  the  oath  ?'  At  which  the 
court  burft  out  into  laughter.  I  was  grieved  to  fee  fo  much" 
lightnefs  in  a  court,  where  fuch  folemn  matters  are  handled, 
and  thereupon  afked  him,  '  If  this  court  was  a  play-houfe  ? 

*  Where  is  gravity  and  fobriety,'  faid  I ;  '  for  this  behaviour 
'  doth  not  become  you.'  Then  the  clerk  read  the  indi6l- 
ment,  and  I  told  the  judge,   '  I  had  fomething  to  fpeak  to 

*  it ;  for  I  had  informed  myfelf  of  the  errors  that  were  in  it.' 
He  told  me,  '  He  would  hear  me  afterward  any  reafons  that 

*  I  could  allege  why  he  fhould  not  give  judgment.'  Then 
I  fj)oke  to  the  jury,  and  told  them,  '  They  could  not  bring 

*  me  in  guilty  according  to  that  indictment ;  for  the  indict- 
'  ment  was  wrong  laid,  and  had  many  grofs  errors  in  it.' 
The  judge  faid,  '  I  muft  not  fpeak  to  the  jury,  but  he 
'  would  (peak  to  them  ;'  and  he  told  them,  '  I  had  denied 
'  to  take  the  oath  at  the  laft  affizes,  and,'  faid  he,  '  I  can 
'  tender  the  oath  to  any  man  now,  and  premunire  him  for 

*  not  taking  it;  and,'  he  faid,  '  they  muft  bring  me  in  guil- 
'  ty,  feeing  I  refufed  to  take  the  oath.'  '  Then,'  faid  I, 
'  what  do  ye  do  with  a  form.  ?    Ye  may  throw  away  your 

*  form  then.'  And  I  told  the  jury.  '  It  lay  upon  their  con- 
'  fciences,  as  they  would  anfvver  it  to  the  Lord  God  before 
'  his  judgment-feat.'  Then  the  judge  fpoke  again  to  the 
jury,  and  I  called  to  him  to  '  do  me  jullice.'  The  jury 
brought  me  in  guilty.  Whereupon  I  told  them,  '  That 
'  both  the  juftices  and  they  had  foifworn  ihenifelvcs,  and 
'  therefore  they  had  fmall  caufe  t»  laugh  as  they  did  a  little 
'  before.'  Oh  !  the  envy,  rage,  and  malice,  that  appeHn.d 
againft  me.   and  the  lightnefs;   bi.;t  the   Lord  confounded 


54  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1664 

'•» 
them,  and  tbcy  were  vvonderfullv  ftopped.     So  they  fet  me 
afide,  and  called  up  Margaret  Fell,  who  had  a  great  deal 
of  good  fcrvice  among!]  them,  and  then  the  court  broke  up 
near  the  Iccond  hour. 

In  the  afternoon  we  were  brought  again  to  have  fentence 
paired  upon  us.  Margaret  Fell  delired  fentence  might  be 
deferred  till  the  next  morning.  '  I  defired  nothing  but 
'  la'A'  and  juflicc  at  his  hands,  for  the  thieves  had  mercy ; 
'  only  I  requeflcd  the  judge  to  fend  fome  to  fee  my  prifon, 
'  which  was  fo  bad  they  would  put  no  creature  they  had  in 
'  it;  and  I  told  him,  that  colonel  Kirby,  who  was  then  on 
'  the  bench,  faid,  "  1  Ihould  be  locked  up,  and  no  flefh 
*'  alive  fhouid  come  to  me."  The  judge  Ihook  his  head, 
and  laid,  '  When  the  fentence  was  given,  he  would  leave 
'  me  to  the  favour  of  the  gaoler.'  Moft  of  the  gentry  of  the 
country  were  gathered  together,  expefting  to  hear  the  fen- 
tence ;  and  the  noife  amongft  the  people  was,  '  That  I 
'  fliould  be  tranfported.'  But  they  were  all  croflTed  at  that 
tim.e ;  for  the  fentence  being  deferred  till  next  morning,  I 
was  had  to  prifon  again.  Upon  my  complaining  of  the 
badnefs  of  my  prifon,  fome  of  the  juftices,  with  colonel 
Kirby,  went  up  to  fee  it;  but  when  they  came,  they  durft 
hardly  go  in,  the  floor  was  fo  bad  and  dangerous,  and  the 
place  fo  open  to  wind  and  rain.  Some  that  came  up  faid, 
'  Sure  it  was  a  Jakes-houfe.'  When  colonel  Kirby  law  it, 
and  heard  what  others  faid  of  it,  he  excufed  the  matter  as 
well  as  he  could,  faying,  '  I  fhouid  be  removed  ere  it  was 
*  long  to  fome  more  convenient  place.' 

Next  day,  towards  the  eleventh  hour,  we  were  called 
again  to  hear  the  fentence ;  and  Margaret  Fell  being  called 
firft  to  the  bar,  flie  had  counfel  to  plead,  who  found  many 
errors  in  her  indiftment;  whereupon,  after  the  judge  had 
acknowledged  them,  flie  was  fet  by.  Then  the  judge  alk- 
ed,  '  What  they  could  fay  to  mine  ?'  I  was  not  willing  to 
let  any  man  plead  for  me,  but  to  fpeak  to  it  myfelf ;  and  in- 
deed, though  Margaret  had  fome  that  pleaded  for  her,  yet 
fhc  fpoke  as  much  herfelf  as  flie  would.  But  before  I 
came  to  the  bar,  I  was  moved  in  my  fpirit  to  pray,  '  That 
'  God  would  confound  their  wickcdnefs  and  envy,  fet  his 
'  truth  over  all,  and  exalt  his  feed.'  I'he  Lord  heard  and 
anfwcrcd,  and  did  confound  them  in  their  proceedings 
againil  mr.  And  though  they  had  mod  envy  againft  me, 
yet  the  rnoR  grofs  errors  were  found  in  my  inditlment. 

I  having  put  by  others  from  pleading  for  me,  the  judge 


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afked  me,  '  What  I  had  to  fay,  why  he  fhould  not  pafs 

*  lentence  upon  me  ?'     I  told  him,  '  I  was  no  lawyer ;  but 

*  I  had  much  to  fay  if  he  would  but  have  patience  to  hear/ 
At  that  he  laughed,  and  others  laughed  alio,  and  laid, 
'  Come,    what  have   you   to   fay  ?     He   can   fay   nothing.* 

*  Yes/  faid  I,  '  I  have  much  to  fay ;  h-we  but  the  patience 
'  to  hear  me.' 

I  aflied  him,  '  Whether  the  oath  was  to  be  tendered  to 

*  the  king  s  fubje6ls,  or  to  the  fubjeds  of  foreign  princes  ?' 
He  faid,  '  To  the  fubjefts  of  this  realm.'     Then  faid   I, 

*  Look  into  the  indidment,  ye  may  fee  that  ye  have  left 
'  out  the  word  Subjeft ;  fo  not  having  named  me  in  the  in- 
'  diftment  as  a  fubjeft,  ye  cannot  premunire  mc  for  not 
'  taking  an  oath.'  Then  they  looked  over  tlie  ftatute  and 
the  indiftment,  and  faw  it  was  as  I  faid;  and  the  judge 
confelfed  it  was  an  error.  I  told  him,  '  I  had  fomething 
'  elfe  to  flop  his  judgment,'  and  defired  him  to  look  what 
day  the  indi6lment  faid  the  oath  was  tendered  to  me  at  the 
feffions  there.  They  looked,  and  faid,  '  It  was  the  eleventh 
'  day  of  January.'  '  What  day  of  the  week  was  the  feffions 
'  held  on  ?'  faid  I.  '  On  a  Tuefday,'  faid  they.  Then 
faid  I,  '  Look  your  Almanacks,  and  fee  v.'hethcr  there  was 
'  any  feffions  held  at  Lancafler  on  the  eleventh  day  of  [a- 

*  nuary,  fo  called  ?'  So  they  looked,  and  found  that  the 
eleventh  day  was  the  day  called  Monday,  and  that  the  fef- 
fions was  on  the  day  called  Tuefday,  which  was  the  twelfth 
day  of  that  month.     '  Look  now,'  (aid  I,  '  ye  have  indi6led 

*  me  for  refufing  the  oath  in  the  quarter-feffions  held  at 
'  Lancafter  on  the  eleventh  day  of  janaaiy  lalt,  and  the 
'  juflices  have   fvvorn   that   they  tendered   me  the  oath  in 

*  open  feffions  here  that  day,  and  the  jury  upon  their  oath.? 

*  have  found  me  guilty  thereupon  ;  and  yet  ye  fee  there  was 
'  no  feffion  held  in  Lancafter  that  day.'  Then  the  judge, 
to  cover  the  matter,  afked,  '  Whether  the  feflions  did  not 
'  begin  on  the  eleventh  day  ?'  But  fome  in  the  court  an- 
fwered,   '  No;   the  feffion  held  but  one  dav,  and  that  was 

*  the  twelfth.'      Then  the  judge  faid,    '  This  was  a  greaE 

*  miftake  and  an  error.'  Some  of  tlie  iullices  were  in  a 
great  rage  at  this,  Itarnped,  and  faid.  '  Who  hath  done 
'  this  ?  Somebody  hath  done  this  on  purpofe;'  and  a  great 
heat  v\'as  amon^ft  them.  Then,  faid  I.  '  Arc  not  the  juf- 
'  tices  here,   that  h  ive  fworn  to  this  indiclinent,   foriworn 

*  men  in  the  face  of  the  country  ?  But  this  is  not  all,'  faid 
Ij  '  I  havi^  mors  vet  to  oii^er  rvhv  fentcnce  ffipuU  not  be 


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''  given  againft  me.'  I  afked,  '  In  what  year  of  the  king 
'  the  lad  aflize  here  was  holden,  which  was  in  the  month 
'  called  March  laft  ?'  The  judge  faid,  '  It  was  in  the  fix- 
'  teenth  year  of  the  king/  •  But/  faid  I,  '  the  indictment 
•'  fays,  it  was  in  the  rlfteenth  year.'  They  looked,  and  found 
it  fo.  This  alfo  was  acknowledged  to  be  another  error. 
Tlien  they  were  all  in  a  fret  again,  and  could  not  tell  what 
to  fiy ;  for  the  judge  had  fvvorn  the  officers  of  the  court, 
that  the  oath  was  tendered  to  me  at  the  affize  mentioned 
in  the  indictment.  '  Now,'  faid  I,  '  is  not  the  court  here 
'  forfworn  alfo,  who  have  fworn  that  the  oath  was  tender- 

•  ed  to  me  at  the  affize  holden  here  in  the  fifteenth  year 
'  of  the  king,  when  it  was  in  his  fixteenth  year,  and  fo  they 
'  have  fworn  a  year  falfe  ?'  The  judge  bid  them  look  whe- 
ther Margaret  Fell's  indictment  was  lb  or  no.  They  look- 
ed, and  found  it  was  not  fo.  I  told  the  judge,  '  I  had 
'  more  yet  to  offer  to  ftop  fentence ;'  and  afked  him,  '  Whe- 
'  ther  ail  the  oath  ought  to  be  put  into  '  the  indi£lment  or 
'  no  ?'  '  Yes,'  faid  he,  '  it  ought  to  be  all  put  in.'  '  Then/ 
faid  I,  '  compare  the  indiftment  with  the  oath,  and  there 
'  thou  mayefl  fee  thefe  words ;  viz.  [or  by  any  authority  de- 
'  rived,  or  pretended  to  be  derived  from  him  or  his  fee]  left 
'  out  of  the  indiftment,  which  is  a  principal  part  ot  the  oath ; 

*  and  in  another  place  the  words  [heirs  and  fucceffors]  are  left 
•'  out.'    The  judge  acknowledged  thefe  alfo  to  be  great  errors, 

•  But,'  faid  I,  '  I  have  fomething  further  to  allege.'  '  Nay/ 
faid  the  judge,  '  I  have  enough,  you  need  lay  no  more.' 
'  If,'  faid  I,  '  thou  hall  enough,  I  defne  nothing  but  law  and 
•*  juflice  at  thy  hands;  for  I  don't  look  for  mercy.'  '  You 
'  muff  have  juflicc/  faid  he,  '  and  you  ffiall  have  law.' 
Then  I  afked,  '  Am  I  at  liberty,  and  free  from  all  that  ever 
'  hath  been  done  againfl  me  in  this  matter  ?'  '  Yes,'  faid 
the  judge,  '  you  are  free  from  all  that  hath  been  done 
'  againfl  you.  But  then,'  Halting  up  in  a  rage,  he  faid, 
'  I  can  put  the  oath  to  any  man  here,  and  I  will  tender  you 
'  the  oath  again.'     I  told  him,  '  He  had  examples  enough 

*  yeflerday  of  Ivvearing  and  falfe- fwearing,  both  in  the  jufti- 
'  ces  and  in  the  jury  ;  for  I  faw  before  mine  eyes  that  both 
'  juflices  and  jury  had  forfworn  themfelves.'  The  judge 
aflced  mc,   •  If  I  would  take  the  oath  ?'  I  aniwered,    Do  me 

•  juflice  for  my  falfe  imprifbnment  all  this  while  ;  for  what' 
'  have  I  been  imprilbned  fo  long  for  ?    I  told  him,  I  ought' 

*  to  be  fct  at  liberty.'  '  You  are  at  liberty,'  faid  he,  '  but  1 
'  will   put   the  oath  to  you  again/     Then  I  turned  about, 


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and  faid,  '  All  people,  take  notice  this  is  a  fnare,  for  I 
'  ought  to  be  fet  free  from  the  gaoler  and  from  this  court/ 
But  the  judge  cried,  '  Give  him  the  book,'  and  the  fheriff 
and  the  juftices  cried,  '  Give  him  the  book.'  Then  the 
power  of  darknefs  rofe  up  in  them,  like  a  mountain,  and  a 
clerk  lifted  up  a  book  to  me.  I  flood  ftill,  and  faid,  '  If  it 
'  be  a  Bible,  give  it  me  into  my  hand.'  '  Yes,  yes,'  faid  the 
judge  and  juftices,  '  give  it  him  into  his  hand.'  '  So  I  took 
'  it,  and  looked  into  it,  and  faid,   I  fee  it  is  a  Bible,   I  am 

*  glad  of  it.'  He  had  caufed  the  jury  to  be  called,  and  they 
flood  by  ;  for  after  they  had  brought  in  their  former  verdi6l, 
he  would  not  difmifs  them  though  they  defired  it,  but  told 
them,   '  He  could  not  difmifs  them  yet,  he  fhould  have  bu- 

*  linefs  for  them ;  therefore  they  muft  attend,  and  be  ready 
'  when  they  were  called.'  When  he  faid  fo,  I  felt  his  intent, 
that  if  I  was  freed,  he  would  come  on  again.  So  I  looked 
him  in  the  face,  and  the  witnefs  of  God  flarted  up  in  him, 
and  made  him  blufh  when  he  looked  at  me  again  ;  for  he 
faw  that  I  difcovered  him.  Neverthelefs  hardening  hirafeif, 
he  caufed  the  oath  to  be  read  to  me,  the  jury  ftanding  by. 
When  it  was  read,  he  alked  me,  '  Whether  I  would  take 
'  the  oath  or  no  ?'  Then  faid  I,  'Ye  have  given  me  a  book 
'  here  to  kifs,  and  to  fwear  on  ;  and  this  book  which  ye  have 
'  given  me  to  kifs,  fays,  "  Kifs  the  Son  ;"  and  the  Son  fays 
'  in  this  book,  "  Swear  not  at  all;"  and  fo  fays  alfo  the 
'  apoflle  James.  I  fay  as  the  book  fays,  yet  ye  imprifon 
'  me.  How  chance  ye  do  not  imprifon  the  book  for  faying 
'  fo  ?   How  comes  it  that  the  book  is  at  liberty  among  you, 

*  which  bids  me  not  to  fwear,  and  yet  ye  imprifon  me  for  do- 
'  ing  as  the  book  bids  me  ?'  I  was  fpeaking  this  to  them, 
and  held  up  the  Bible  open  in  my  hand,  to  fhew  them  the 
place  where  Chrifl  forbad  fwearing,  they  plucked  the  book 
out  of  my  hand,  and  the  judge  faid,  *  Nay,  but  we  will  im- 
'  prifon  George  Fox.'  Yet  this  got  abroad  over  all  the 
country  as  a  by-word,  '  That  they  gave  me  a  book  to  fwear 
'  on  that  commanded  mc  "  not  to  fwear  at  all  ;"  and  that 
'  the  Bible  was  at  liberty,  and  I  in  prifon  for  doing  as  the 
'  Bible  laid.'  When  the  judge  ftill  urged  me  to  Iwear,  I 
told  him,  '  I  never  took  oath,  covenant,  nor  engagement 
'  in  my  life  ;  but  my  yea.  or  nay  was  more  binding  to  me 
'  than  an  oath  was  to  many  others  ;  for  had  tiiey  not  had  ex- 
'  perience  how  little  men  regarded  an  oath  ?  and  how  they 
'■  had  fworn  one  way  and  then  another?  and  how  the  juftices 
'  and  court  had  forfworn  themfelvcs  now  ?    I   told  him,    1 

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58  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1664 

'  was  a  man  of  a  tender  confcience,  and  if  they  had  any 
'  {'enfe  of  a  tender  confcience,  they  would  confider,  that  it 
'  was  in  obedience  to  Chrill's  command  that  I  could  not 
'  fwear.  But/  faid  I,  '  if  any  of  you  can  convince  me,  that^ 
'  after  Chrift  and  the  apoftle  had  commanded  not  to  fwear, 
'  they  altered  that  command,  and  commanded  Chriftians  to 
'  fwear,  ye  fhall  fee  I  will  fwear.'  There  being  many  priefts 
by,  I  faid,  '  If  ye  cannot  do  it,  let  your  priefts  ftand  up  and 
'  do  it.'  But  not  one  of  the  priefts  made  anfwer.  '  Oh !'  faid 
the  judge,  '  all  the  world  cannot  convince  you.'  '  No/ 
faid  I,  '  how  is  it  like  the  world  fhould  convince  me? 
'•  The  whole  world  lies  in  wickednefs."  Bring  out  your 
'  fpi ritual  men,  as  ye  call  them,  to  convince  me.'  Then 
both  the  fheriff  and  the  judge  faid,  '  The  angels  fworein  the 
'  Revelations.'  I  replied,  '  When  God  bringeth  his  firft-be- 
'  gotten  Son  into  the  world,  he  faith,  "  Let  all  the  angels 
'•  of  God  worliiip  him/'  and  lie  faith,  '•'  Swear  not  at  all." 
'  Nay,'  faid  the  judge,  '  I  will  not  difpute.'  Then  I  fpoke 
to  the  jury,  telling  them,  '  It  was  for  Chrift's  fake  that  I 
'  could  not  fwear.  and  therefore  I  warned  them  not  to  a6t 
'  contrary  to  that  of  God  in  their  confciences  ;  for  before  his 
'  judgment  feat  they  muft  all  be  brought.'  I  told  them, 
'  As  for  plots,  and  perfecution  for  religion  and  popery,  I 
'  deny  them  in  my  heart;  for  I  am  a  Chriftian,  and  fliall 
'  fhew  forth  Chriftianity  amongft  you  this  day.  It  is  for 
'  Chrift's  do6lrine  I  ftand.'  More  words  I  had  both  with 
the  judge  and  jury  before  the  gaoler  took  me  away. 

In  the  afternoon  I  was  brought  up  again,  and  put  among 
the  thieves  a  pretty  while,  where  I  ftood  with  my  hat  on 
till  the  gaoler  took  it  off^.  Then  the  jury  having  found  this 
new  indiiSlment  againft  me  '  for  not  taking  the  oath,'  I  was 
called  to  the  bar,  and  the  judge  afked  me,  '  What  I  would  fay 
'  for  myfelf  ?'  I  bid  them  read  the  indiftment,  for  I  would 
not  aniwer  to  that  which  I  did  not  hear.  The  clerk  read  it, 
and  as  he  read  the  judge  faid,  '  Take  heed  it  be  not  falfc 
'  again  /  but  he  read  it  in  fuch  a  manner,  that  I  could  hardly 
underftand  what  he  read.  When  he  had  done,  the  judge 
alked  me,  '  What  I  faid  to  the  indi61ment  ?'  I  told  him, 
'  At  once  liearing  fo  large  a  writing  read,  and  that  at  fuch 
'  a  diftance,  that  I  could  not  diftindly  hear  ail  the  parts  of 
'  it,  1  could  not  well  tell  what  to  fay  to  it ;  but  if  he  would 
•'  let  me  have  a  copy  of  it,  and  give  me  time  to  confider  of 
'  it,  I  fiiould  anfwer  it.'  This  put  them  to  a  little  lland;^. 
but  after  av/hile  the  judge  allied  me,  '  What  time.  1  would 


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*  have  ?'  I  faid,  '  Till  the  next  affize.'    '  But/  faid  he.  '  what 

*  plea  will  ye  now  make  ?  Are  ye  giiilty,  or  not  guilty  ?'  I 
faid,  '  I  am  not  guilty  at  all  of  denying  to  fwear  obflinately 

*  and  wilfully;  and  as  forthofe  things  mentioned  in  the  oath, 

*  as  jefuitical  plots  and  foreign  powers,  I  utterly  deny  iheni 

*  in  my  heart.     If  I  could  take  any  oath  I  lliould  take  that ; 

*  but  I  never  took  any  oath  in  my  life.'  The  judge  anfwer- 
ed,  *  I  faid  wd\;  but,'  faid  he,  '  the  king  is  fworn.  the  par- 

*  liament  is  fworn,   I  am  fworn,  and  the  juftices  c'ue  fworn, 

*  and  the  law  is  preferved  by  oaths.'     I  told  him,  "  They  had 

*  fufficient  experience  of  men's  fwearing,   and  he  had   feen 

*  how  the  juftices  and  jury  had  fworn  wrong  the  other  day ; 
'  and  if  he  had  read  in  the  book  of  martyrs  how  many  of  them 
'  had  refufed  to  fwear,  both  in  the  time  of  the  ten  perfecutions 
'  and  in  bifliop  Bonner's  days,  he  might  fee,  that  to  deny 
'  fwearing  in  obedience  to  Chrift's   command  was  no  Ui-w 

*  thing.'  He  faid,  '  He  wifhed  the  laws  were  otherwife.' 
I  faid,   '  Our  yea  is  yea,  and  our  nay  ivS  nay ;  and  if  v/e 

*  tranfgrefs  our  yea  or  our  nay,  let  us  fuffer  as  they  do,  or 
'  ftiould  do,  that  fwear  falfely.'  This,  I  told  him,  we  had 
offered  to  the  king,  and  the  king  faid,  '  It  was  reafonable.' 

After  fome  further  difcourfe,  they  committed  me  to  pri- 
fon  again,  there  to  lie  till  the  next  aflize;  and  colonel  Kir- 
by  gave  order  to  the  gaoler,  '  To  keep  me  clofe,  and  fuffer 
'  no  flefh  alive  to  come  at  me ;  for  I  was  not  fit,'  he  faid, 

*  to  be  difcourfed  with  by  men.'  I  was  put  into  a  tower, 
ivhere  the  fmoke  of  the  other  prifoners  came  up  fo  thick,  it 
flood  as  dew  upon  the  walls,  and  fometimes  it  was  fo  thick 
that  I  could  hardly  fee  the  candle  when  it  burned ;  and  I 
being  locked  under  three  locks,  the  under-gaoier,  when  the 
fmoke  was  great,  would  hardly  be  perfuaded  to  come  up  to 
unlock  one  of  the  upperrnoft  doors,  for  fear  of  the  fmoke, 
fo  that  I  MMs  almoft,  fmothered.  Befides  it  rained  in  upon 
my  bed,  and  many  tunes,  v>'hen  I  went  to  Ifop  out  the  rain 
in  the  cold  winter-feafon,  my  fhirt  was  as  wet  as  muck  with 
the  rain  that  came  in  upon  me  while  I  was  labouring  to 
flop  it  out.  And  the  place  being  high  and  open  to  the 
wind,  fometimes  as  fall  as  I  ftopped  it  the  wind  blew  it  out 
again.  In  this  manner  did  I  lay  all  that  long  co-.d  v; inter 
till  the  next  affize.  in  which  time  I  was  fo  flarved  with  cold 
and  rain,  that  my  body  was  greatly  fwelled,  and  my  limbs 
much  benumbed. 

The  affize  began  the  fixteenth  of  the  month  called  March 
1664-5.     ^^^  lame  judges,  Twifden  and  Turner,  couimg 
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6o  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1664 

that  circuit  again,  judge  Twifden  fat  this  time  on  the  crown- 
bench,  and  before  him  I  was  brought.  I  had  informed  my- 
felf  of  the  errors  in  this  indiftinent  alfo.  For  though  at 
the  affize  before,  judge  Turner  laid  to  the  officers  in  court, 

*  Pray,  fee  that  all  the  oath  be  in  the  indiflment,  and  that 

*  the  word  Subject  be  in,  and  that  the  day  of  the  month 

*  and  year  of  the  king  be  put  in  right ;  for  it  is  a  ihame  that 
'  fo  many  errors  fhould  be  feen  and  found  in  the  face  of  the 
'  country ;'  yet  many  errors,  and  thofe  great  ones,  were  in 
this  indictment  as  well  as  in  the  former.  Surely  the  hand 
of  the  Lord  was  in  it,  to  confound  their  mifchievous  work 
againfl  me,  and  to  blind  them  therein ;  infomuch  that  al- 
though, after  the  indiftment  was  drawn  at  the  former  affize, 
the  judge  examined  it  himfelf,  and  tried  it  with  the  clerks, 
yet  the  word  Sabje6t;  was  left  out  of  this  indi6lment  alfo, 
the  day  of  the  month  was  put  in  wrong,  and  feveral  mate- 
rial words  of  the  oath  were  left  out ;  yet  they  went  on  con- 
fidently againil  me,  thinking  all  was  fafe  and  well.  When 
I  was  fet  to  the  bar,  and  the  jury  called  over  to  be  fworn, 
the  clerk  afked  me,  firft,   '  Whether  I  had  any  objedion  to 

*  make  to  any  of  the  jury  ?'   I  told  him,   '  I  knew  none  of 

*  them.'  Then,  having  Iworn  the  jury,  they  fwore  three 
of  the  officers  of  the  court,  to  prove,  •'  That  the  oath  was 
'  tendered  to  me  at  the  laft  affizes,  according  to  the  indidl- 
'  ment.'  '  Come,  come,'  faid  the  judge,  '  it  was  not  done 
'  in  a  corner.'  Then  he  afked  me,  '  What  I  had  to  fay  to 
'  it ;  or  whether  I  had  taken  the  oath  at  the  lafl  affize  ?'  I 
told  him  what  I  had  formcrlv^  faid  to  them,  as  it  now  came 
to  my  remembrance.      Whereupon  the  judge  faid,   '  I  will 

*  not  difpute  with  you  but  in  point  of  law.'  '  Then,'  faid 
I,  '  I  have  fomething  to  fpeak  to  the  jury  concerning  the 
'  indiftment.'  He  told  me,  '  I  muft  not  fpeak  to  the  jury  ; 
'  but  if  I  had  any  thing  to  fay,  I  muft  fpeak  to  him.'  I 
afked  him,   '  Whether  the  oath  was  to  be  tendered  to  the 

*  king's  fubjecls  only,  or  to  the  fubjecls  of  foreign  princes  ?' 
He  replied,  '  To  the  lubjeds  of  this  realm  ;  for  I  will  fpeak 
'  nothmg  to  you,'  faid  he,  '  but  in  point  of  law.'  '  Then,' 
faid  I,  '  look  in  the  indiftment,  and  thou  mayed  fee  the 
'  word  Subject  is  left  out  of  this  indiftment  alio.  There- 
'  fore,  feeing  the  oath  is  not  to  be  tendered  to  any  but  the 
'  {ubjcfts  of  this  realm,  and  ye  have  not  put  me  in  as  a 
'  fubjeci:,  the  court  is  to  take  no  notice  of  this  indidment.' 
I  had  no  fooner  fpoke  thus,  but  the  judge  cried,  '  Take 
'  him  away,  gaoler,  take  him  away,'     So  I  was  prefently 


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hurried  away.  The  gaoler  and  people  looked  when  I 
fhould  be  called  for  again  ;  but  I  was  never  brought  to  the 
court  any  more,  though  I  had  many  other  great  errors  to 
affign  in  the  indidment.  After  I  was  gone,  the  judge 
aflced  the  jury,  '  If  they  were  agreed  ?'  They  laid,  '  Yes ;" 
and  found  for  the  king  againft  me,  as  I  was  told.  But  I 
was  never  called  to  hear  fentence  given,  nor  was  any  given 
againft  me  that  I  could  hear  of.  I  underftand,  when  they 
looked  narrowly  into  the  indiftment,  they  faw  it  was  not 
good;  and  the  judge  having  fworn  the  officers  of  the  court, 
that  the  oath  was  tendered  me  at  the  affize  betore,  fuch  a 
day,  according  as  was  fet  in  the  indi6lment,  and  that  being 
the  wrong  day,  I  fhould  have  proved  the  officers  of  the 
court  forfworn  men  again,  if  the  judge  would  have  fufFered 
me  to  plead  to  the  indiftment;  which  was  thought  to  be 
the  reafon  why  he  hurried  me  away  io  foon.  The  judge 
liad  paffed  fentence  of  premunire  upon  Margaret  Fell  be- 
fore I  was  brought  in;  and  it  feems,  when  I  was  hurried 
away,  they  recorded  me  as  a  premunired  perfon,  though  I 
was  never  brought  to  hear  the  fentence,  nor  knew  of  it; 
which  was  very  illegal.  For  they  ought  not  only  to  have 
had  me  prefent  to  hear  the  fentence  given,  but  alio  to  have 
afked  me  firft,  '  What  I  could  fay  why  fentence  ftiould  not 
'  be  given  againft  me  ?'  But  they  knew  I  had  fo  much  to 
fay  they  could  not  give  fentence  if  they  heard  me. 

While  I  was  prifoner  in  Lancafter  caftle,  there  was  great 
noife  and  talk  of  the  Turk's  overfpreading  Chriftcndom, 
and  great  fears  entered  many.  But  one  day,  as  1  was  walk- 
ing in  my  prifon-chamber,  '  I  faw  the  Lord's  power  turn 
'  againft  him,  and  that  he  was  turning  back  again.'  1  de- 
clared to  fome  what  the  Lord  had  let  me  fee,  w^hen  there 
were  fuch  fears  of  his  over-running  Chriftendom;  and  with- 
in a  month  after  the  news  came  down,  wherein  it  was  men- 
tioned, '  They  had  given  him  a  defeat." 

Another  time,  as  I  was  walking  in  my  chamber,  with  my 
eve  to  the  Lord,  '  1  fav/  the  angel  of  the  Lord,  with  a  glit- 
'  tering  drawn  fvvord  ftretched  fouthward,  as  tliough  the 
'  court  had  been  all  on  a  fire.'  Not  long  after  the  wars 
broke  out  with  Holland,  the  ficknefs  broke  forth,  and  after- 
wards the  fire  of  London  ;  fo  the  Lord's  fword  was  drawn 
indeed. 

By  reafon  of  my  long  and  clofe  imprifonraent  in  fo  bad  a 
place,  I  was  becom.e  very  weak  of  body  ;  but  the  Lord's 
power  was  over  all,  fupportod  mc  through  all,  and  enabled 


62  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1665 

me  to  do  (enrice  for  him,  and  for  his  truth  and  people,  as 
the  place  would  admit.  For  while  I  was  in  Lancafter  pri- 
fon,  I  anfwered  feveral  books,  as  the  Mafs,  the  Common- 
prayer,  the  Directory,  and  the  Church-faith  ;  which  are  the 
four  chief  religions  that  are  got  up  fmce  the  apollles  days. 
And  there  being  feveral  friends  in  prifon  at  Lancafter  and 
other  prifons  for  not  paying  tithes,  I  was  moved  to  pubiilh 
the  following  lines  concerning  tithes  : 

N  the  time  of  the  law,  thofe  that  did  not  bring  their 
tithes  into  the  ftore-houfe robbed  God;  then  there  was 
'  not  meat  in  their  houfe  ;  therefore  the  Lord  commanded, 
"  To  bring  them  into  his  houfe,  that  there  might  be  meat  in 
"  the  flore-houfe,  which  was  to  feed  the  fatherlefs,  ftranger, 
"  and  widow."  But  thefe  priefts  who  are  counterfeits,  who 
'  take  people's  tithes  now  by  a  law,  are  from  the  beaft  ;  and 
'  if  they  will  not  pay  them,  they  prifon  them,  or  make  them 
'  pay  treble.     Thefe  rob  the  poor,  rob  the  fatherlefs,  and 

*  the  ftranger  and  widows  are  not  filled  ;  fo  their  cry  is  gone 
'  up  to  heaven  againft  thefe.      Many  are  made  almoft  beg- 

*  gars  by  thefe  opprcffing  priefts,  their  cattle  and  corn  being 
'  taken  away  from  them,  and  they  caft  into  prifon.  Others 
'  are  lued  at  law  by  the  priefts,  and  have  treble  damage  ta- 

*  ken  from  them  ;  yet  fuch  priefts  are  cried  up  to  be  minif- 
'  ters  of  the  gofpel.      Though  when  the  unchangeable  prieft 

*  was  come,  the  priefthood  that  was  changeable  was  denied, 
'  as  we  now  deny  thefe.  But  if  any  be  moved  to  cry  againft 
'  them,  they  are  ftocked,   beat,  or  imprifoned.      Many  are 

*  now  in  prifon  at  Lancafter  and  other  places  by  a  national 

*  law,  the  like  whereof  was  never  done  by  the  law  of  God 
'  delivered  to  Mofes.  We  do  not  read  that  under  Mofes's 
'  law  any  fufFered  imprifonment,  or  fpoiling  of  goods  for  not 
'  paying  tithes,  or  was  to  pay  treble  damage.      Surely,  fure- 

*  ly,  the  cry  for  vengeance  will  be  heard,  which  arifes  from 

*  the  opprefied  fouls  that  lie  under  the  altar.  There  are 
'  many  prifoncrs  at  Kendal,  bccaufe  they  cannot  pay  tithes, 
'  as  captain  Ward,  Thomas  Robertfon,  and  the  widow 
'  Garland,  ivho  hath  many  fmali  children  :  thefe  fnfrer  be- 
'  caufe  they  cannot  pay  tithes.  Others  there  are  in  Kendal 
'  prifon.  who  were  moved  of  the  Lord  to  fpcak  to  the  priefts, 
'  whereof  one  was  moved  to  go  in  fackclotli,  and  of  late  with 
'  afhes  upon  her  be:id.  Others  have  been  moved  to  go  in 
'  fackcloth,  as  a  lamentation  for  the  mifcrable  eftate  of  this 
''  n.ition,  fecin.^^  (o  marty  crying  up  of  the  preaching  of  the 


J665]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  63 

*  gofpel,  and   yet  fo  mu^h  flrifc,  debate,  oaths,  and  diffen- 

*  lion  among  people.     But  where  tlie  gofpel  is  received  in- 

*  deed,  ftrife  and  contention  are  ended,  and  opprelTion  is 
'  taken  ofF.  Oh  !  the  land  mourns,  becaufe  of  the  oppref- 
'  fion  of  thofe  called  minifters  !    And  though  the  cry  of  the 

*  oppreffed  hath  not  entered  into  the  ears  of  the  magiftrates, 

*  yet  is  the  cry  of  the  poor  oppreiFed  people  of  God  entered 
'  into  the  ears  of  the  Lord  of  Sabbath,  who  now  will  be 
'  avenged  of  all  his  adverfaries.     You  unjuft  law-givers,  and 

*  unjuft  judges,  to  that  in  all  your  conicicnces  I  fpcak,  to 

*  be  cleared,  vvhen  yc  are  judged  by  the  juft  judge  of  hea- 

*  ven  and  earth ;  whofe  terror  is  gone  forth  againft  all  the 
'  ungodly,  and  all  the  oppreflbrs  of  God's  people  whatfoc- 
'  ver,  whether  ve  will  hear  or  forbear. 

'  G.  F.' 

After  the  affize,  colonel  Kirby  and  other  juftices  were 
very  uneafy  with  my  being  at  Lancailer;  for  I  had  galled 
them  fore  at  my  trials  there,  and  they  laboured  much  to  get; 
me  removed  from  thence  to  fome  remote  place.  Colonel 
Kirby  threatened  1  Ihould  be  fent  far'  enough ;  fometimes 
he  faid,  '  I  ftiould  be  fent  beyond  fea.'  About  fix  weeks 
after  the  aflizes,  they  got  an  order  from  the  king  and  coun- 
cil to  remove  me  from  Lancafter ;  and  'v^ith  it  they  brought 
a  letter  from  the  earl  of  Anglefey,  wherein  was  written, 
'  That  if  thofe  things  were  found  true  againft  me,  which  I 
'  was  charged  withal,  I  deferved  no  clemency  nor  mercy;' 
)  et  the  greateft  matter  they  had  againft  me  was,  becaufe  I 
could  not  difobey  the  command  of  Chrift,  and  fwcar. 

When  they  had  prepared  for  my  removal,  the  under- 
flieriffand  the  head-ftierifF's  man,  with  fome  bailiff?,  came 
and  fetched  me  out  of  the  caftle,  xvhen  I  was  fo  weak  with 
lying  in  that  cold,  wet,  and  fmoky  prifon,  that  I  could 
hardly  go  or  ft  and.  They  had  me  into  the  gaoler's  houfe, 
wliere  was  William  Kirby  and  feveral  others,  and  they  cal- 
led for  wine  to  give  me.  I  told  them,  '  I  would  have  none 
'  of  their  vv'ine.'  Then  they  cried.  '  Bring  out  the  horfes/ 
I  defired  them  firft  to  ihew  me  their  order,  or  a  copy  of  it, 
if  they  intended  to  remove  me ;  but  thev  would  Ihew  me 
none  but  their  fwords.  I  told  them,  '  There  was  no  fen- 
'  fence  pafTed  upon  me,  nor  was  I  prcraunired,  that  I  knew 
'  of;  and  therefore  I  was  not  made  the  king's  prifoncr,  but 
'  was  the  ftieriff's;  for  they  and  all  the  country  knew,  that 
•  I  was  not  fully  heatd  at  the  Uft  a'iize,   nor  TuFured  Jo 


64  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1665 

'  fhew  the  errors  in  the  indi6lment,  which  were  fufficient  to 
'  quafh  it,  though  they  had  kept  me  from  one  affize  to  an- 
'  other,  to  the  end  they  might  try  me.  But  they  all  knew 
'  there  was  no  fentence  of  premunire  paiFed  upon  me ; 
'  therefore  I,  not  being  the  king's  prifoner  but  the  fheriff 's, 
'  did  dehre  to  fee  their  order.*  Inftead  of  (hewing  me  their 
order,  they  haled  me  out,  and  lifted  me  upon  one  of  the 
fhcriff 's  horfes.  When  I  was  on  horfeback  in  the  ftreet, 
the  town's  people  being  gathered  to  gaze  upon  me,  I  told 
the  officers,  I  had  received  neither  Chriftianity,  civility,  nor 
humanity  from  them.  They  hurried  me  away  about  four- 
teen miles  to  Bentham,  though  I  was  fo  very  weak  that  I 
was  hardly  able  to  fit  on  horfeback,  and  my  deaths  fmelt 
fo  of  fmoke  they  were  loathfome  to  myfelf.  The  wicked 
gaoler,  one  Hunter,  a  young  fellow,  would  come  behind 
and  give  the  horfe  a  lafh  with  his  whip,  and  make  him  fkip 
and  leap;  fo  that  I,  being  weak,  had  much  ado  to  fit  on 
him ;  then  he  would  come  and  look  me  in  the  face,  and 
fay,  '  How  do  you,  Mr.  Fox  ?'  I  told  him,  '  It  was  not 
'  civil  in  him  to  do  fo.'     The  Lord  cut  him  off  foon  after. 

When  we  were  come  to  Bentham  in  Yorkfhire,  there  met 
us  many  troopers  and  a  marfhal ;  and  many  of  the  gentry 
of  the  country  were  come  in,  and  abundance  of  people  to 
take  a  view  of  me.  I  being  very  weak  and  weary,  defired 
them  to  let  me  lie  down  on  a  bed,  which  the  foldiers  per- 
mitted ;  for  thofe  that  brought  me  thither  gave  their  order 
to  the  marlhal,  and  he  fet  a  guard  of  his  foldiers  upon  me. 
When  they  had  (laid  awhile,  they  prefTed  horfes,  raifed  the 
bailiff  of  the  hundred,  the  conftables,  and  others,  and  had 
me  to  Gigglefv^rick  that  night;  but  exceeding  weak  I  was. 
There  they  raifed  the  conftables  with  their  clog-fhoes,  who 
fat  drinking 'all  the  night  in  the  room  by  me,  fo  that  I  could 
not  get  much  refl.  Next  day  we  came  to  a  market-town, 
where  feveral  friends  came  to  fee  me.  Robert  Widders  and 
divers  friends  came  to  me  upon  the  road.  The  next  night 
I  aficed  the  foldiers,  '  Whither  they  intended  to  carry  me, 
'  and  whither  I  was  to  be  lent  ?'  Some  of  them  faid,  '  Be- 
'  yond  fea,'  others  faid,  '  To  Tinmoulh-callle.'  And  a 
great  fear  there  was  amongfl  them,  left  fome  fhould  refcue 
me  out  of  their  hands ;  but  that  fear  was  ncedlefs.  Next 
night  we  came  to  York,  where  the  marfhal  put  me  up  into 
a  great  chamber,  where  there  came  moll  part  of  two  troops 
to  fee  me.  One  of  thofe  troopers,  an  envious  man,  hearing 
I   was   premunired;    afKcd  me,  '   What  cftate  I  had,  and 


1665]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  65 

'  whether  it  was  copy-hold  or  free-land  ?'  I  took  no  notice 
of  his  queftion,  but  was  moved  to  declare  the  word  of  life 
to  the  foldiers,  and  many  of  them  were  very  loving.  At 
night  lord  Frecheville,  who  commanded  thole  horfe,  came 
to  me,  and  was  very  civil  and  loving.  I  gave  him  an  ac- 
count of  my  imprifonment,  and  declared  many  things  to 
him  relating  to  truth.  They  kept  me  at  York  two  days, 
then  the  marfhal  and  four  or  five  foldiers  were  fent  to  con- 
vey me  to  Scarborough  caflle.  Indeed  thele  were  very  ci- 
vil men,  and  carried  themfelves  civilly  and  lovingly  to  me. 
On  the  way  we  baited  at  Malton,  and  they  permitted  friends 
to  come  and  vifit  me.  When  we  were  come  to  Scarborough, 
they  had  me  to  an  inn,  and  gave  notice  to  the  governor, 
who  fent  half  a  dozen  foldiers  to  be  my  guard  that  night. 
Next  day  they  condu6led  me  to  the  caflle,  put  me  into  a 
room,  and  fet  a  centry  on  me.  I  being  very  weak,  and 
fubjeft  to  fainting,  they  for  awhile  let  me  go  out  fome- 
times  into  the  air  with  a  centry.  They  loon  removed  me 
out  of  this  room,  and  put  me  into  an  open  room,  where  the 
rain  came  in;  and  the  room  fmoked  exceedingly,  which  was 
very  ofFenhve  to  me.  One  day  the  governor,  who  was  call- 
ed Sir  Jordan  Crofland,  came  to  fee  me,  and  brought  with 
him  one  called  Sir  Francis  Cobb.  I  defired  the  governor 
to  go  into  my  room,  and  fee  what  a  place  I  had.  I  had 
got  a  little  fire  made  in  it,  and  the  room  was  fo  filled  with 
fmoke,  that  when  they  were  in  they  could  hardly  find  their 
way  out  again.  He  being  a  Papift,  I  told  him  that  was  his 
purgatory  which  they  had  put  me  into.  I  was  forced  to  lay 
out  about  fifty  (hillings  to  flop  out  the  rain,  and  keep  the 
room  from  fmoking  fo  much.  When  I  had  been  at  that 
charge,  and  made  it  fomewhat  tolerable,  they  removed  me 
into  a  worfe,  where  I  had  neither  chimney  nor  fire-hearth. 
This  being  to  the  fea-fide,  and  lying  much  open,  the  wind 
drove  in  the  rain  forcibly,  fo  that  the  water  came  over,my 
bed,  and  ran  about  the  room,  that  I  was  tain  to  ikim  it  up 
with  a  platter.  And  when  my  clothes  were  wet,  I  had  no 
fire  to  dry  them;  fo  my  body  was  numbed  with  cold,  and 
my  fingers  fwelled,  that  one  was  grown  as  big  as  two. 
Though  I  was  at  fome  charge  on  this  room  alfo,  yet  I  could 
not  keep  out  the  wind  and  rain.  Bendes  they  would  fufFer 
few  friends  to  come  at  me,  and  many  times  not  any,  not  fo 
much  as  to  bring  me  a  little  food ;  but  I  was  forced  for  the 
firft  quarter,  to  hire  one  of  another  fociety  to  bring  me  ne- 
ceilarics.  Sometimes  the  foldiers  would  take  it  Irom  her, 
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66  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [i66j 

and  ihe  wduld  fcuffle  with  them  for  it.  Afterwards  I  hired" 
a  foldier  to  fetch  me  water  and. bread,  and  fomething  to 
make  a  fire  of,  when  I  was  in  a  room  where  a  fire  could 
be  made.  Commonly  a  three-penny  loaf  ferved  me  three 
weeks,  and  fometimes  longer,  and  mofl  of  ray  drink  was 
water,  with  wormwood  fteeped  or  bruifed  in  it.  One  time, 
when  the  weather  was  very  fharp,  and  I  had  taken  a  great 
cold,  I  got  a  little  elecampane-beer;  and  I  heard  one  of  the 
foidiers  lay  to  the  other,  '  They  would  piay  me  a  pretty 
'  trick,  for  they  would  fend  for  me  up  to  the  deputy-governor, 

*  and  in  the  mean  time  drink  my  fhrong  beer  out ;'  and  fo 
they  did.  When  I  returned,  one  of  the  foldiers  came  to 
yne  in  a  jeer,  and  aflced  me  for  fome  llrong  beer.  I  told 
him,  They  had  played  their  pretty  trick,  and  took  no  far^ 
ther  notice  of  it.  But  inafmuch  as  they  kept  nie  fo  very 
llrait,  not  giving  liberty  for  friends  to  come  to  me,  I  fpoke 
to  the  keepers  of  the  caftle  to  this  efFeft :    '  I  did  not  know 

*  till  I  was  removed  from  Lancafler  caftle,  and  brought  pri- 
'  foner  to  this  caftle  of  Scarborough,  that  I  was  convitled 
'  of  a  ^remunire ;  for  the  judge  did  not  give  fentence  upon 
'  me  at  the  afTizes  in  open  court.  But  feeing  I  am  now  a 
'  prifoner  here,  if  I  may  not  have  my  liberty,  let  my  friends 
'  and  acquaintance  have  their  liberty  to  come  and  vifit  me, 

*  as  Paul's  friends  had  among  the  Romans,  who  were  not 
'  Chriftians  but  Heathens.  For  Paul's  friends  had  their  li- 
'  berty ;  all  that  would  might  come  to  him,  and  he  had  his 
'  liberty  to  preach  to  them  in  his  hired  houfe ;  but  I  cannot 
'  have  liberty  to  go  into  the  town,  nor  for  my  friends  to  come 
'  to  me  here.  So  you,  that  go  under  the  name  of  Chrif- 
'  tians,  arc  worfc  in  this  refpecl  than  thofe  Heathens  were/ 

But  though  they  would  not  let  friends  come  to  me,  they 
would  often  bring  others,  either  to  gaze  upon  me  or  to  con- 
tend with  me. 

One  time  came  a  great  Company  of  Papifts  to  difcourfe 
v.'ith  me,  who  affirmed,  '  The  pope  was  infallible,  and  had 
'  flood  infallible  ever  ftnce  Peter's  time.'  I  fhewed  them 
the  contrary  by  hiftory:  '  For  one  of  the  bifhops  of 
'  Rome,  Marcelhnus  by  name,  denied  the  faith,  and  fa- 
'  crificed  to  idols;  therefore  he  was  not  infallible.  I  told 
'them-,  if  they  were  in  the  Infallible  Spirit,  they  need 
'  not  have  gaols,  Iwords,  ftaves,  racks,  tortures,  fires,  whips, 
'  and  gallovv^s,  to  hold  up  their  religion  by,  and  to  deftroy 
'  men's  lives  about  religion;  for  if  they  were  in  the  Infalli- 
'  ble  Spirit,  the.}'  would  prefcrve  men's  lives,  and  ufs  none 


16653  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  67 

*  but  fpiritual  weapons  about  religion.     I  told  them  alfo 

*  what  one  that  had  been  of  their  fociety  told  me.      A  vvo- 

*  man  lived  in  Kent,  who  had  not  only  been  a  Papifl  her- 

*  felf,   but  had  brought  over  feveral  to  that  religion ;    bu! 

*  coming  to  be  convinced  of  God's  truth,  and  bsing  turned 

*  by  it  to  Chrift,   her  Saviour,   flie  exhorted  the  Papifts  to 

*  the  fame.  One  of  them,  a  taylor,  being  at  work  at  her 
'  houfe,  while  ibe  opened  to  him  the  falfencfs  of  the  Popifii 
'  religion,   and  endeavoured   to  draw    hun  from  it  to   the 

*  truth,  drew  his  knife,  and  got  between  her  and  the  door. 

*  But  fhe  fpoke   boldly  to  him,   and  bid  him  put  up  his 

*  knife,   for  fhe  knew  his  principle.      I  afkcd  the  woman, 

*  What  file  thought  he  would  have  done  with  his  knife  ? 
'  She  faid,  "  He  would  have  ftabbed  her."  "  Stab  thee !" 
faid  I,  "  What  would  he  have  ftabbed  thee  for  ?  thy  reli- 
**  gion  ?"  "  Yes,"  faid  fhe,  "  It  is  the  principle  of  the  Pa- 
"  pifts,  if  any  turn  from  their  religion,  to  kill  them  if  they 
*'  can."     This  ftory  I  told  thofe  Papiils,  and  that  I  had  it 

*  from  a  perfon  who  had  been  one  of  them,  but  had  forfockk 

*  their  principles,  and  difcovered  their  pra6lices.     They  did 

*  not  deny  this  to  be  their  principle,  but  faid,  What !  would 

*  I  declare  this  abroad  ?  I  told  them.  Yes,  fuch  things  ought 
'  to  be  declared  abroad,  that  it  might  be  known  how  con- 
'  trary  their  religion  was  to  true  Chrillianity  ;*  whereupon 
they  went  away  in  a  great  rage. 

Another  Papift  came  to  difcourfe  v/ith  me,  who  faid, 
'  All  the  patriarchs  were  in  hell  from  the  creation  till  Chrifl 
'  came,  and  that  when  Chrift  fufFered  he  went  into  hell, 
'  and  the  devil  faid  to  him,   What  comeft  thou  hither  for, 

*  to  break  open  our  ftrong  holds  ?  And  Chrift  faid,  To 
'  fetch  them  all  out.  So,'  he  faid,  '  Chrift  was  three  days 
'  and  three  nights  in  hell  to  bring  them  out.'  I  told  him, 
that  was  falfe;  for  Chrift  laid  to  the  thief,  "  This  day  thou 
"  fhalt  be  with  me  in  paradife."  And  Enoch  and  Elijah 
were  tranflated  into  heaven.  And  Abraham  was  in  heaven: 
for  the  fcripture  faith,   '  Lazarus  was  in   his  bofom ;  and 

*  Mofes  and  Elias  were  with  Chrift  upon  the  mount  before 

*  he  fuftered.'  Thefe  inftances  ftopped  the  Papift'^;  mouth,, 
and  put  him  to  a  ftand. 

Another  time  came  Dr.  Witty,  who  was  efteemed  a  great 
doftor  in  phyftck,  with  lord  Falconbridge,  the  go'/ernor  of 
Tinm.outh  caftle,  and  feveral  knights.  I  being  called  to 
them.  Witty  undertook  to  difcourfe  with  me,  and  aiked  me, 
'  Whci.t  1  was  in  prifon  for  ?'  I  told  him,  '  Bccaufc  I 
I  2 


68  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1665 

*  would  not  difobey  the  command  of  Chrifl,  and  fvvear/ 
He  faid,  '  I  ought  to  iwear  my  allegiance  to  the  king.*  He 
being  a  great  Prelbyterian,  I  afked  him,  '  Whether  he  had 
'  not  fworn  againft  the  king  and  houfe  of  lords,  and  taken 
'  the  Scotch  covenant  ?  And  had  he  not  fmce  fworn  to 
'  the  king  ?  What  then  was  his  Iwearing  good  for  ?  But 
'  my  allegiance,'   I  told   him,   '  did  not  confill  in  fwearing, 

*  but  in  truth  and  faithfulnefs.'  After  fome  further  di(- 
courfe,  I  was  had  away  to  my  prifon  again;  and  afterwards 
Dr.  Witty  boafled  in  the  town  aniongfl  his  patients,  that 
he  had  conquered  me.  When  I  heard  of  it,  I  told  the 
governor,  '  It  was  a  fmall  boa  ft  in  him  to  fay,  He  had  con- 
'  quered  a  bondman.'  I  defired  to  bid  him  come  to  mc 
again,  when  he  came  to  the  caille.  He  came  again  awhile 
after,  with  about  fixteen  or  feventeen  great  perfons,  and 
then  he  ran  himfelf  worfe  on  ground  than  before.  For  he 
affirmed  before  them  all,  '  That  Chrift  had  not  enlightened 
'  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world  ;'  and  '  that  the 

*  grace  of  God,  that  brought  falvation,  had  not  appeared 
'  unto  all  men,  and  '  that  Chrift  had  not  died  for  all  men/ 
I  afked  him;  what  fort  of  m.en  thofe  were  which  Chrift  had 
not  enlightened  ?  and  whom  his  grace  had  not  appeared  to? 
and  whom  he  had  not  died  for  ?  He  faid,  '  Chrift  did  not 
'  die  for  adulterers,  and  idolaters,  and  wicked  men.'  I  afk- 
ed him,  '  Whether  adulterers  and  wicked  men  were  not 
'  finners  ?'   He  faid,   '  Yes.'     '  Did  not  Chrift  die  for  lin- 

*  ners  ?'  faid  I.  '  Did  he  not  come  to  call  finners  to  re- 
'  pentance  ?'  '  Yes,'  faid  he.  '  Then,'  faid  I,  '  thou  haft 
'  ftopped  thy  own  mouth.'  So  1  proved,  that  the  grace  of 
God  had  appeared  unto  all  men,  though  fome  turned  from 
it  into  wantonnefs,  and  walked  defpitefully  againft  it;  and 
tliat  Chrift  had  enlightened  all  men,  though  fome  hated  the 
light.  Several  of  the  people  confeifed  it  was  true ;  but  he 
went  away  in  a  great  rage,  and  came  no  more  to  me. 

Another  time  the  governor  brought  a  prieft  ;  but  his 
mouth  was  foon  ftopped.  Not  long  after  he  brought  two 
or  three  parliament-men,  who  afked  me,   '  Whether  I   did 

*  own  miniftcrs  and  bifhops  ?'  I  told  them,  '  Yes,  fuch  as 
'  Chrift  fent,   fuch  as  had,  freely  received,  and  would  freely 

*  give,  fuch  as  were  qualified,  and  were  in  the  fame  power 
'  and  fpirit  the  apoftlcs  were  in.  But  fuch  bifliops  and 
'  teachers   as   theirs,  that  would  go  no  farther   than  a  great 

^'benefice,  I  did  not  own  ;  for  they  were  not  like  the  apof- 
'  ties.     Chrift   faith  to  his  minifters,  "  Go  ye  into  all  na- 


1665]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  69 

"  tions,   and  preach  the  gofpel ;"  but  ye  parHament-men, 

*  who  keep  your  priefts  and  bifhops  in  fuch  great  fat  benefi- 
'  ces,  have  fpoiled  them  all.     For  do  ye  think  they  will  go 

*  into  all  nations  to  preach  ?  or  will  go  any  forther  than  a 
'  great  fat  benefice  ?  Judge  yourfelves  whether  they  will  or 

*  no.' 

There  came  another  time  the  widow  of  old  lord  Fairfax, 
and  with  her  a  great  company ;  one  of  whom  was  a  prieft. 
I  was  moved  to  declare  the  truth  to  them,  and  the  prieft  ailc- 
ed  me,  '  Why  we  faid  Thou  and  Thee  to  people  ?  for  he 
'  counted  us  but  fools  and  idiots  for  fpeaking  fo.'  I  alked 
him,  '  Whether  thofe  that  tranflated  the  fcripturcs,  and  made 

*  the  grammar  and  accidence,  were  fools  and  idiots,  feeing 

*  they  tranflated  the  fcriptures  fo,  and  made  the  grammar 
'  fo,  Thou  to  one,  and  You  to  more  than  one,  and  left  it 
'  fo  to  us  ?      If  they  were  fools  and  idiots,  why  had  not  he 

*  and  fuch  as  he,  who  looked  upon  themfelves  as  wife  men, 
'  and  could  not  bear  Thou  and  Thee  to  a  fingular,  altered 

*  the  grammar,  accidence,  and  bible,  and  put  the  plural 
'  inftead  of  the  fingular  ?     But  if  they  were  wife  men,  that 

*  fo  tranflated  the  bible,  and  made  the  grammar  and  acci- 
'  dence  fo,  I  wifhed  him  to  confider,  whether  they  were  not 

*  fools  and  idiots    themfelves,  that  did  not  fpeak  as  their 

*  grammars  and  bibles  taught  them  ;  but  were  offended 
'  with  us,  and  called  us  fools  and  idiots  for  fpeaking  fo  ?' 
Thus  the  priefl;'s  mouth  was  ft;opped,  many  of  the  compa- 
ny acknowledged  the  truth,  and  were  pretty  loving  and  ten- 
der. Some  would  have  given  me  money,  but  I  would  not 
receive  it. 

After  this  came  Dr.  Cradock,  with  three  priefts  more, 
and  the  governor  with  his  lady  (fo  called)  and  another  that 
was  called  a  lady,  with  a  great  company.  Dr.  Cradock 
afked  me,  '  What   I  was  in  prifon  for?'   I  told  him,   '  For 

*  obeying  the  command  of  Chrifl:  and  the  apoftle,  in  not 
^  fwearing.     But  if  he,  being  both  a  doftor  and  a  juftice, 

*  could  convince  me,  that  after  Chrifl;  and  the  apoftle  had 

*  forbid  fwearing,  they  commanded  Chriftians  to  fwear,  then 
'  I  would  fwear.      Here  was  the  bible,   I  told  him,  he  might 

*  if  he  could  fliew  me  any  fuch  command.'  He  faid,  '  It  is 
'  written,  ye  fhall  fwear  in  truth  and  righteoufnefs.'  '  Aye/ 
'  faid  I,  •  it  was  written  fo  in  Jeremiah's  time  ;  but  that  was 
'  many  ages  before  Chrift  commanded  not  to  fwear  at  all  ; 
'  but  where  is  it  written  fo  fince  Chrift  forbad  all  fwearing? 

*  I  could  bring  as  many  inftances  out  of  the  Old  Teftament 


7d  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1665 

'  for  fwearing  as  thou,  and  it  may  be  more ;  but  of  whaC 
'  force  are  they  to  prove  fwearing  lawful  in  the  New  Tefta- 
'  ment  firice  Chrifl  and  the  apoftle  forbad  it  ?  Befides/  faid 
I,   '  in  that  text  where  it  is  written,  "  Ye  fhall  fwear,"  whafc 

*  [Ye]  vv-as  this  ?  Was  it  Ye  Gentiles,  or  Ye  Jews  ?'  To 
this  he  would  not  anfwer  ;  but  one  of  the  priefts  that  were 
xvith  him  anfwered.  '  It  was  to  the  Jews  that  this  was  fpo- 
ken/  Then  Dr.  Cradock  confeffed  it  was  fo.'  '  Very  well/ 
faid  I,  '  but  where  did  God  ever  give  a  command  to  the 
'  Gentiles  to  fvvear  ?   For  thou  knoweft  that  we  are  Gentiles 

*  by  nature.'  '  Indeed,'  faid  he,  '  in  the  gofpel-times  every 
'  thing  was  to  be  eftablifhed  out  of  the  mouths  of  two  ot 
'  three  witnelfes  ;  but  there  was  to  be  no  fwearing  then.' 
'  Why  then,'  faid    I,   '  doft  thou  force  oaths  upon  Chrifti- 

*  ans,  contrary  to  thy  own  knowledge,  in  the  gofpel-times  ? 
'  And  why,'  faid  I,  '  dofl  thou  excommunicate  my  friends  ?* 
(tor  he  had  excommunicated  abundance  both  in  Yorkfhire 
and  Lancafhire.)     He   faid,  '  For  not   coming  to  church.* 

*  Why,'  faid  I,  'ye   left  us  above  twenty  years  ago,  when 

*  we  were  but  young  lads  and  lafTes,  to  the  Prefbyterians, 

*  Independents,  and  Baptifts,  many  of  whom  made  fpoil  of 

*  our  goods,  and  perfecuted  us  becaufe  v\'e  would  not  follow 

*  them.     We  being  but  young,  knew  little   then   of  your 

*  principles,  and  the  old  men  that  did  know  them,  if  ye  had 
'  intended  to  have  kept  them  to  you,  and  have  kept  your 
'  principles  alive,    that   we  might  have  known  them,    ye 

*  fhould  either  not  have  fled  from  us  as  ye  did,  or  ye  fhould 
'  have  fent  us  youjr  epiftles,  collefts,  homilies,  and  evening 
'  fongs  ;  for  Paul  wrote  epiflles  to  the  faints,  though  he  was 
'  in  prifon.  But  they  and  we  might  have  turned  Turks 
'  or  Jews  for  any  collefls,  homilies,  or  epiftles  we  had  from 
•'  you  all  this  while.  And  now  thou  haft  excommunicated 
'  us,  both  voung  and  o]d,  and  fo  have  others  of  you  done; 
'  that  is,  '•  Ye  luwe  put  us  out  of  your  church,  before  ve 
••  have  got  us  mto  it,"  and  before  ye  have  brought  us  to 
'  know  your  principles.  Is  not  this  madnefs  in  you,  to  put 
•'  us  out  before   we  were  brought   in  ?   Indeed,    if  ye   had 

*  brought  us  into  your  church,  and  when  we  had  been  in,  if 
■'  wc  had  done  fqnie  bad  thing,  that  had  been  fomething  like 
■^  a  ground  for  excommunication  or  putting  out  again. 
'  Bin,'  faid  I,  '  What  doft  thou  call  the  church  ?'  '  Why,' 
'  faid  he,   '  that  which  you  call  the  fteeple-houfe,'      Then  I 

*  afked  liim,  '  Whether  Chrift  (bed  his  blood  for  the  fteeple- 

*  iioufe  ?   .and  purchafed  and  fanOified    the    ftccple-koufc 


1665]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  71 

*  with  his  blood  ?  And  feeing  the  church  is  Chrifl's  bride 
'  and  wife,  and  that  he  is  the  head  of  the  church,  doft  thou 
'  think  the  fteeple-houfe  is  Chrift's  wife  and  bride,  and  that 

*  he  is  the  head  of  that  old  houfe,  or  of  his  ptople  ?  No,' 
faid  he,  '  Chrift  is  the  head  of  his  people,  and  they  are  the 
'  church/     '  But,'  faid  I,  '  you  have  given  the  title  church 

*  to  an  old  houfe,  which  belongs  to  the  people ;  and  you 
'  have  taught  them  to  believe  fo.'     I  afked  him  alio,  '  Why 

*  he  perfecuted  friends  for  not  paying  tithes  ?    And  whether 

*  God  ever  commanded  the  Gentiles  to  pay  tithes  ?    And 

*  whether  Chrift  had  not  ended  tithes  when  he  ended  the 

*  Levitical  priefthood  that  took  tithes  ?  And  whether  Chrift, 
'  when  he  fent  his  difciples  to  preach,  had  not  commanded 
'  them  to  preach  freely  as  he  had  given  them  freely  ?     And 

*  whether  all  the  minifters  of  Chrift  are  not  bound  to  obferve 

*  this  command  of  Chrift  ?'  He  faid,  '  He  would  not  difpute 
'  that.'  Neither  did  I  find  he  was  willing  to  ftay  on  that  fub- 
jeft;  for  he  prefently  turned  to  another  matter,  and  faid,  '  You 

'  marry,  but  I  know  not  how.'  I  replied,  '  It  may  be  fo  :  bu^ 
'  why  doft  thou  not  come  and  fee  ?'  Then  he  '  threatened 
'  that  he  would  ufe  his  power  againft  us,  as  he  had  done.'  I 
bid  him.  '  Take  heed ;  for  he  was  an  old  man.'  I  afked  him 
alfo,   '  Where  he  read  from   Genefis  to  Revelations,    that 

*  ever  any  prieft  did  marry  any  ?  I  wiftied  him  to  iiicw  me 
'  fome  inftance  thereof,  if  he  would  have  us  come  to  them 
'  to  be  married;  for,  faid  I,  thou  haft  excommunicated  one 

*  of  my  friends  two  years  after  he  was  dead,  about  his  mar- 
^  riage.     And  why  doft  thou  not  excommunicate  Ifaac,  and 

*  Jacob,  and  Boaz,  and  Ruth  ?  For  we  do  not  read  they 
'  were  ever  married  by  the  priefts ;  but  they  took  one  ano- 
'  ther  in  the  aflemblies  of  the  righteous,  in  the  prefence  of 
'  God  and  his  people ;  and  fo  do  we.     So  that  we  have  all 

*  the  holy  men  and  women,  that  the  fcripture  fpeaks  of  ia 

*  this  praftice,  on  our  fide.'  Much  difcourfd  we  had;  but 
when  he  found  he  could  get  no  advantage  on  me,  he  went 
away  with  his  company. 

With  fnch  people  I  was  much  excrcifed  while  I  was, 
there;  for  moft  that  came  to  the  caftle  would  defire  to  fpcak 
with  me,  and  great  difputes  I  had  with  them.  But  as  to 
friends,  I  was  as  a  man  buried  alive  ;  for  though  many 
came  far  to  fee  me,  few  were  fiulered  to  come  at  me:  and 
when  any  friend  came  into  the  caftle  about  buiinefs.  if  Jie: 
looked  but  towards  me,  they  would  rage  at  him.  At  laft 
the  governoj  came,  under  trouble  hiairc;.-;  for  IjCivi::,:;  lent 


72  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1665 

out  a  privateer  to  fea,  they  took  fome  fhips  that  were  not 
enemies  fhips,  but  their  friends;  whereupon  he  was  brought 
into  trouble ;  after  which  he  grew  fomewhat  more  friendly 
to  me.  For  before  I  had  a  marfhal  fet  over  me,  on  pur- 
pofe  to  get  money  out  of  me ;  but  I  was  not  to  give  him  a 
farthing ;  and  when  they  found  they  could  get  nothing  from 
me,  he  was  taken  off  again.  The  officers  often  threatened 
me,  that  I  fhould  be  hanged  over  the  wall.  Nay,  the  de- 
puty-governor told  me  once,  that  the  king,  knowing  I  had 
great  mtereft  in  the  people  had  fent  me  thither;  that  if  there 
fhould  be  any  ftirring  in  the  nation,  they  fhould  hang  me 
over  the  wall  to  keep  the  people  down.  There  being  awhile 
after  a  marriage  at  a  Papift's  houfe,  upon  which  occafion  a 
great  many  ot  them  were  met  together,  they  talked  much, 
then  of  hanging  me.  But  I  told  them,  '  If  that  was  what 
'  they  defired,  and  it  was  permitted  them,  I  was  ready;  for 

*  I  never  feared  death  nor  fufFerings  in  my  life ;  but  1  was 
'  known  to  be  an  innocent,  peaceable  man,  free  from  all 
'  flirrings  and  plottings,  and  one  that  fought  the  good  of  all 
'  men.'  Afterwards,  the  governor  growing  kinder,  I  ipokc 
to  him,  when  he  was  to"  go  to  London  to  the  parliament, 
and  defired  him  to  fpeak  to  'fquire  Maifh,  Sir  Francis 
Cobb,  and  fome  others;  and  let  them  know  how  long  I  had 
lain  in  prilon,  and  for  what :  which  he  did.  When  he 
came  down  again,  he  told  me,  Tquiie  Marfli  faid,  '  He 
'  would  go  an  hundred  miles  barefoot  for  my  liberty,  he 
'  knew  me  fo  well ;'  and  feveral  others,  he  faid,  fpoke  well 
of  me.  From  which  time  the  governor  was  very  loving  to 
me. 

There  were  amongll  the  prifoners  two  very  bad  men, 
who  often  fat  drinking  with  the  officers  and  foldiers ;  and 
becaufe  I  would  not  fit  and  drink  with  them,  it  made  them 
the  worfe  againft  me.  One  time,  when  thefe  two  prifoners 
were  drunk,  one  of  them  (whofe  name  was  William  Wil- 
kinfon,  a  Prefbyterian,  who  had  been  a  captain)  came  and 
challenged  me  to  fight  with  him.  I  feeing  what  condition 
he  was  in,  got  out  of  his  way ;  and  next  morning,  when  he 
was  more  lober,  fliewed  him,  '  How  unmanly  a  thing  it  was 
'  in  him  to  challenge  a  man  to  fight,  whofe  principle,  he 
'  knew  it,  was  not  to  flnke ;  but  if  he  was  flricken  on  one 

*  ear,  to  turn  the  otlier.  I  told  him,  if  he  had  a  mind  to 
'  fight,  he  fiiould  have  challenged  fome  of  the  foldiers,  that 
'  could  have  anfwered  him  in  his  own  way.     Jkit  however, 

*  feeing  he  had  ciiallengcd  me,   I  was  now  come  to  anfwer 


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*  him,  w'ith  my  hands  in  my  pockets  :  and  (reaching  my 
'  head  towards  him)   Here,  laid  I,  here  is  my  hair,  here  are 

*  my  cheeks,  here  is  my  back/  With  that  he  (kipped  away 
from  me,  and  went  into  another  room  :  at  which  the  fol- 
diers  fell  a  laughing';  and  one  of  the  officers  {l\id,  *  You 

*  are  a  happy  man  that  can  bear  fuch  things.'  Thus  he  was 
conquered  without  a  blow.  After  awhile  he  took  the  oath, 
gave  bond,  got  out  of  prifon ;  and  not  long  after  the  Lord 
cut  him  oflF. 

There  were  great  imprifonments  in  this  and  the  former 
years,  while  I  was  prifoner  at  Lancafter  and  Scarborough. 
At  London  many  friends  were  crowded  into  Newgate,  and 
other  prifons,  where  the  ficknefs  was ;  and  many  died  in 
prifon.  Many  alio  were  banilhed,  and  feveral  fent  on  fhip- 
board  by  the  king's  order.  Some  mafters  of  fhips  would 
not  carry  them,  but  fet  them  on  Ihore  again ;  yet  fome  were 
fent  to  Barbadoes,  Jamaica,  and  Mevis,  and  the  Lord  blef- 
fed  them  there.  One  mailer  of  a  fhip  was  very  wicked  and 
cruel  to  friends  that  were  put  on  board  his  fhip  ;  for  he  kept 
them  down  under  decks,  though  the  ficknefs  was  amongfl 
them  ;  fo  that  many  died  of  it.  But  the  Lord  vifited  hnn 
for  his  wickednefs  ;  for  he  loft  moft  of  his  feamen  by  the 
plague,  and  lay  feveral  months  crolTed  with  contrary  winds, 
though  other  fhips  went  out,  and  made  their  voyages.  At 
laft  he  came  before  Plymouth,  where  the  governor  and  ma- 
giftrates  would  not  fufFer  him  nor  any  of  his  men  to  come 
afhore,  though  he  wanted  neceffaries  for  his  voyage;  but 
Thomas  Lower,  Arthur  Cotton,  John  Light,  and  other 
friends  went  to  ^he  fhip's  fide,  and  carried  neceffaries  for  the 
friends  that  were  prifoners  on  board.  The  mafler,  being 
thus  crofTed  and  vexed,  curfed  them  that  put  him  upon  this 
freight ;  and  faid,  '  He  hoped  he  fhould  not  go  far  before 
'  he  was  taken.'  And  the  veflTel  wa?  but  a  little  while  gone 
out  of  fight  of  Plymouth,  before  fbe  was  taken  by  a  Dutch 
man  of  war,  and  carried  into  Holland.  When  they  came 
into  Holland,  the  States  fent  the  banifhed  friends  back  to 
England,  with  a  letter  of  paflfport,  and  a  certificate,  '  That 

*  they  had  not  made  an  efcape,  but  were  fent  back  by  them.* 
In  time  the  Lord's  power  wrought  over  this  ftorm,  and  ma- 
ny of  our  perftcutors  were  confounded  and  put  to  fhame. 

After  I  had  lain  prifoner  above  a  year  in  Scarborough 
caftle,   I  fent  a  letter  to  the  king,  in  which  I  gave  him  '  an 

*  account  of  my  imprifonment,  and  the  bad  ufage  I  had  re- 

*  ceivcd  in  prifon ;  and   allb  that  I  was  informed  no  nian 

Vol.  IL  y. 


74  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1666 

'  could  deliver  me  but  he.'  After  this,  John  Whitehead 
being  at  London,  and  having  acquaintance  alfo  with  fquire 
Marih,  he  went  to  vifit  him,  and  fpoke  to  him  about  me  ; 
and  he  imdertook,  if  John  Whitehead  would  get  the  ffate 
of  my  cafe  drawn  up,  to  deliver  it  to  the  mafter  of  requefts, 
Sir  John  Birkenhead,  who  would  endeavour  to  get  a  releafe 
for  me.  So  John  Whitehead  and  Ellis  Hookes  drew  up  a 
relation  of  my  imprifonment  and  fufferings,  and  carried  it  to 
Marlh  ;  and  he  went  with  it  to  the  mafter  of  requefts,  who 
procured  an  order  from  the  king  for  my  releafe.  The  fub- 
ftance  of  the  order  was,  '  That  the  king  being  certainly  in- 
'  formed  that  I  was  a  man  principled  again  ft  plotting  and 
'  fighting,  and  had  been  ready  at  all  times  to  difcover  plots, 
'  rather  than  to  make  any,  &c.  therefore  his  royal  pleafure 
'  was,  tliat  I  fhould  be  difcharged  from  my  imprifonment,' 
&c.  As  foon  as  this  order  was  obtained,  John  Whitehead 
came  to  Scarborough  with  it,  and  delivered  it  to  the  go- 
vernor; who,  upon  receipt  thereof,  gathered  the  officers 
together,  and,  without  requiring  bond  or  fureties  for  my 
peaceable  living,  being  fatisfied  that  I  was  a  man  of  a  peace- 
able life,  he  difcharged  me  freely,  and  gave  me  the  follow- 
ing paflport  : 

PERMIT  the  bearer  hereof,  George  Fox,  late  a  prifon- 
er  here,  and  now  difcharged  by  his  majefty's  order, 
quietly  to  pafs  about  his  lawful  occafions,  without  any 
moleftation.  Given  under  my  hand  at  Scarborough  caftle, 
this  firft  day  of  September,   1666. 

*  JORDAN  CROSLANDS, 
'  Governor  of  Scarborough  caftle/ 

After  I  was  releafed,  I  would  have  made  the  governor  a 
prefent  for  the  civility  and  kindnefs  he  had  of  late  fhewed 
me ;  but  he  would  not  receive  any  thing ;  faying,  '  What- 
'  ever  good  he  could  do  for  me  and  my  friends,  he  would  do 
*  it,  and  never  do  them  any  hurt.'  And  afterwards,  if  at  any 
time  the  mayor  of  the  town  fent  to  him  for  foldiers  to  break 
up  friends  meetings,  if  he  lent  any  down,  he  would  pri- 
vately give  them  a  charge,  '  Not  to  meddle.'  He  continu- 
ed loving  to  his  dying-day.  The  oilficers  alfo  and  the  fol- 
diers were  mightily  changed,  and  become  very  refpeclful  to 
inc.     When  they  had  occafion  to  fpeak  of  me,  they  would 


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fay,  *  He  is  as  llifF  as  a  tree,  and  as  pure  as  a  bell ;  for  we 
«  could  never  bow  him.' 

The  very  next  day  after  my  releafe,  the  fire  broke  out  in 
London  ;  and  the  report  of  it  came  quickly  down  into  the 
country.  Then  I  faw  the  Lord  God  was  true  and  jufl  in 
his  word,  which  he  had  fhewed  me  before  in  Lancafter  gaol, 
when  I  faw  the  angel  of  the  Lord  with  a  glittering  drawn 
fword  fouthward,  as  before  exprelTed.  The  people  of  Lon- 
don were  forewarned  of  this  fire  :  yet  few  laid  it  to  lieart,  or 
believed  it ;  but  rather  grew  more  wicked,  and  higher  in 
pride.  A  friend  was  moved  to  come  out  of  Huntingdon- 
fliire  a  little  before  the  fire,  and  to  fcatter  his  money  up  and 
down  the  ftreets,  turn  his  horfe  loofe,  untie  the  knees  of  his 
breeches,  and  let  his  (lockings  fall  down,  and  to  unbutton 
his  doublet,  and  tell  the  people,  *■  So  fhould  the}'  run  up  and 
down,  fcattering  their  money  and  goods,  half  undrelfed,  like 

*  mad  people,  as  he  was  a  fign  to  them;'  which  they  did  when 
the  city  was  burning.  Thus  hath  the  Lord  exercifed  his 
prophets  and  fervants  by  his  power,  (hewed  them  figns  of 
his  judgments,  and  fent  them  to  forewarn  the  people ;  but 
inflead  of  repenting,  they  have  beaten  and  cruelly  entreat- 
ed fome  ;  and  fome  they  have  imprifoned,  both  in  the  for- 
mer power's  days,  and  fmce.  But  the  Lord  is  juft;  and 
happy  are  they  that  obey  his  word.  Some  have  been  mov- 
ed to  go  naked  in  their  ftreets,  in  the  other  power's  days, 
and  fince,  as  figns  of  their  nakedncfs  j  and  have  declared 
amongft  them,   '  That  God  would  ftrip  them  of  their  hypo- 

*  critical  profelTions,  and  make  them  as  bare  and   naked  as 

*  they  were.'  But,  inftead  of  confidering  it,  they  have  fre- 
quently whipped,  or  otherwife  abufed  them,  and  fome- 
times  imprifoned  them.  Others  have  been  moved  to  go 
in  fackcloth,  and  to  denounce  the  woes  and  vengeance  of 
God  againft  the  pride  and  haughtinefs  of  the  people  ;  but 
few  regarded  it.  And  in  the  other  power's  days,  the  wick- 
ed, envious,  profefling  priefts  put  up  feveral  petitions  both 
to  Oliver  and  Richard,  called  proteftors,  and  to  the  parlia- 
ments, judges,  and  ju dices  againft  us,  ftufiFed  full  of  lies, 
and  vilifying  words  and  (landers  ;  but  we  got  copies  of  them, 
and  through  the  Lord's  alTiftance  anTwered  them  all, 
and  cleared  the  Lord's  truth  and  ourfclves  of  them.  But 
oh  I  the  body  of  darknefs  that  rofe  againft  the  truth,  in 
them  that  made  lies  their  refuge  !  But  the  Lord  fwept  theni 
away ;  and  in  and  with  his  power,  truth,  light,  and  life 
hedged  his  lambs  about,  and  preferved  them    as  on  eagles' 


76  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1666 

wings.  Therefore  we  all  had  and  have  great  encourage- 
ment to  trull  the  Lord,  who,  we  faw,  by  his  power  and 
Spirit,  overturned  and  brought  to  nought  all  the  confedera- 
cies and  counfels  that  were  hatched  in  darknefs  againft  his 
truth  and  people  ;  and  by  the  fame  truth  gave  his  people 
dommion,  that  therein  they  might  ferve  him. 

Indeed,  I  could  not  but  take  notice  how  the  hand  of  the 
Lord  turned  againft  thofe  my  perfecutors  who  had  been  the 
caufe  of  my  imprifonment,  or  had  been  abulive  or  cruel  to 
me  under  it.  For  the  officer  that  fetched  me  to  Houlker- 
hall  wafted  his  eftate,  and  foon  after  fled  into  Ireland.  And 
moft  of  the  juftices  that  were  upon  the  bench  at  the  feflions 
when  I  was  fent  to  prifon  died  in  awhile  after ;  as  old  Tho- 
mas Prefton,  Rawlinfon,  Porter,  and  Matthew  Weft  of 
Borwick.  And  juftice  Fleming's  wife  died,  and  left  him 
thirteen  or  fourteen  motherlefs  children ;  who  had  impri- 
foned  two  friends  to  death,  and  thereby  made  feveral  chil- 
dren fatherlefs.  Colonel  Kirby  never  profpered  after.  The 
chief  conftable,  Richard  Dodgfon,  died  foon  after ;  and 
Mount,  the  petty  conftable,  and  the  wife  of  John  Afhburn- 
ham  the  other  petty  conftable,  who  railed  at  me  in  her 
houfe,  died  foon  after.  William  Knipe,  the  witnefs  they 
brought  againft  me,  died  foon  after.  Hunter,  the  gaoler 
of  Lancafter,  who  was  very  wicked  to  me  while  I  was  his 
prifoner,  was  cut  ofi^  in  his  young  days.  The  under-fhe- 
riff",  that  carried  me  from  Lancafter  prifon  towards  Scarbo- 
rough, lived  not  long  after.  And  Joblin,  the  gaoler  of 
Durham,  who  was  prifoner  with  me  in  Scarborough  caftle, 
and  had  often  incenfed  the  governor  and  foldiers  againft  me, 
though  he  got  out  of  prifpn,  the  Lord  cut  him  off  in  his 
wickednefs  foon  after.  When  I  came  into  that  country 
again,  moft  of  thofe  that  dwelt  in  Lancafhire  were  dead, 
and  others  ruined  in  their  eftates :  fo  that,  though  I  did 
not  feek  revenge  upon  them,  for  their  a61ings  againft  me 
contrary  to  the  law,  yet  the  Lord  had  executed  his  judg- 
ments upon  many  of  them. 

Being  now  at  liberty,  I  went  about  three  miles  to  a  large 
general  meeting  at  a  friend's  houfe,  who  had  been  a  chief 
conftable ;  and  all  was  quiet  and  well.  On  fourth-day  af- 
ter I  returned  to  Scarborough,  and  had  a  meeting  in  the 
town  at  Peter  Hodgfon's.  To  this  meeting  came  one  call- 
ed a  lady,  and  feveral  other  great  perfons  ;  alfo  a  young 
man,  ion  to  the  bajliff^  of  the  town,  who  had  been  convinc- 
ed while  I  was  there  in  prifon.     That  lady  (fo  called)  ca^ie 


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to  me,  and  faid,  '  I  fpoke  againft  the  minifters.'  I  told 
her,  *  Such  as  the  prophets  and  Chrift  declared  againft  for- 
'  merly,   I  declared  againft  now." 

From  hence  I  went  to  Whitby  :  and,  having  vifited 
friends  there,  paffed  to  Burlington,  where  I  had  another 
meeting.  From  thence  to  Oram,  where  I  had  another 
meeting ;  and  thence  to  Marmaduke  Storr's,  and  had  a  large 
meeting  at  a  conftable's  houfe,  on  whom  the  Lord  had 
wrought  a  great  miracle. 

Next  day  two  friends  being  to  take  each  other  in  marri- 
age, there  was  a  very  great  meeting,  which  I  attended.  I 
"was  moved  to  open  the  ftate  of  our  marriages,  declaring, 
'  How  the  people  of  God  took  one  another  in  the  afl'emblies 
'  of  the  elders  ;  and  that  it  was  God  who  joined  man  and 

*  woman  together  before  the  fall.    And  though  men  had  tak- 

*  en  upon  them  to  join  in  the  fall,  yet  in  the  reftoration  it  is 
^  God's  joining  that  is  the  right  and  honourable  marriage  ; 
'  but  never  any  prieft  did  marry  any,  that  we  read  of  in  the 
'  fcriptures,  from  Genefis  to  Revelations.'  Then  I  ftiewed 
them  the  duty  of  man  and  wife,  how  they  ftiould  ferve  God, 
being  heirs  of  life  and  grace  together. 

I  paffed  from  thence  to  Grace  Barwick's,  where  I  had  a 
general  meeting,  which  was  very  large.  I  came  next  to 
Richard  Shipton's,  where  I  had  another  meeting ;  and  to  a 
prieft's  houfe,  whofe  wife  was  convinced,  and  himfelf  grown 
very  loving,  and  glad  to  fee  me.  This  was  that  prieft,  who, 
in  the  year  1651,  threatened,  '  If  ever  he  met  with  me  again, 
'  he  would  have  my  life,  or  1  fhould  have  his ;'  and  laid, 

*  He  would  lofe  his  head  if  I  were  not  knocked  down  in  a 
'  month  ;'  but  now  he  was  partly  convinced,  and  become 
very  kind.  I  went  from  his  houfe  towards  the  fea,  where 
feveral  friends  came  to  viiit  me :  amongft  others,  Philip 
ScarfF,  who  had  formerly  been  a  prieft,  but,  having  receiv- 
ed the  truth,  was  now  become  a  preacher  of  Chrift  freely, 
and  continued  fo.  Pafling  on,  I  called  to  fee  an  ancient 
man,  who  was  convinced  of  truth,  and  was  above  an  hun- 
dred years  old.  Then  I  came  to  a  friend's  houfe,  where  I 
had  a  great  meeting,  and  quiet.  I  had  a  great  meeting  near 
Malton  ;  and  another  large  one  near  Hull  :  from  whence  I 
went  to  Holdendike.  As  we  went  into  the  town,  the  watch- 
men queftioned  me  and  thofe  that  were  v;ith  me  ;  but  they 
not  having  any  warrant  to  ftay  us,  we  pafted  by  ihem,  and 
they  in  a  rage  threatened  they  would  fc:nch  us  out.  I  went 
\.<ji  the  houfe  of  one  called  the  Lady  Montague,  where  I  lodg- 


78  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [i66^ 

ed  that  night ;  and  feveral  friends  came  to  vifit  me.  Next 
morning,  being  up  betimes,  I  walked  into  the  orchard,  and 
faw-  a  man  about  fun-rifing  go  into  the  houfe  in  a  great 
cloak.  He  ftaid  not  long ;  but  foon  came  out  again,  and 
went  away,  not  feeing  me.  I  felt  fomething  ftrike  at  my 
life  ;  and  went  into  the  houfe,  where  I  found  the  maid-fer- 
vant  affrighted  and  trembling.  She  told  me,  '  That  man 
'  had  a  naked  rapier  under  his  cloak/  By  which  I  perceiv- 
ed he  came  with  an  intent  to  have  done  mifchief ;  but  the 
Lord  prevented  him, 

I  then  vifited  friends  till  I  came  to  York,  where  we  had 
a  large  meeting.  After  which  1  went  to  vifit  juftice  Robin- 
fon,  an  ancient  juftice  of  peace  ;  who  had  been  very  loving 
to  me  and  friends  from  the  beginning.  There  was  a  prieft 
with  him  ;  who  told  me,   '  It  was  faid,  that  we  loved  none 

*  but  ourfelves.'     I  told  him,  '  We  loved  all  mankind  as 

*  they   were    Ood's  creation,  and  as  they  were  children  of 

*  Adam  and  Eve  by  generation ;  and  we  loved  the  brother- 

*  hood  in  the  Holy  Ghoft.'  This  flopped  him.  After  forae 
other  difcourfe,  we  parted  friendly,  and  paffed  away. 

About  this  time  I  wrote  a  book,  intituled,  '  Fear  God, 

*  and  honour  the  king ;'  in  which  I  Ihewed,    *   That  none 

*  could  rightly  fear  God,  and  honour  the  king,  but  they  that 

*  departed  from  fin  and  evil :'  This  book  did  much  affe6i 
the  foldiers  and  moft  people. 

Having  vifited  friends  at  York,  we  paffed  to  a  market 
town,  where  we  had  a  meeting  at  George  Watkinfon's,  who 
formerly  had  been  a  juftice.  A  glorious,  bleffed  meeting  it 
was,  very  large,  and  the  feed  of  life  was  fet  over  all.  But 
we  had  been  troubled  to  get  into  this  town,  had  not  Pro- 
'lidence  made  way  for  us ;  for  the  watchmen  ftood  ready  to 
ftop  us :  but  there  being  a  man  riding  juft  before  us,  the 
watchmen  queftioned  him  firft ;  and  perceiving  he  was  a 
juftice,  let  him  pafs ;  and  we  riding  clofe  after  him,  by  that 
means  efcapcd. 

From  this  place  we  paffed  to  Thomas  Taylor's,  who  had 
formerly  been  a  captain,  where  we  had  a  precious  meeting. 
Hard  by  Thomas  Taylor's  lived  a  knight,  who  was  much 
difpleafed  when  he  heard  I  was  like  to  be  releafed  out  of 
prifon  ;  and  threatened,  '  if  the  king  fet  me  at  liberty,  he 
'  would  fend  me  to  prifon  again  the  next  day.'  But  though 
I  had  this  meeting  fo  near  him,  the  Lord's  power  ftopped 
him  from  meddling,  and  our  meeting  was  quiet.  Colonel 
Kirby  alio,  who  had  been  the  chief  means  of  my  imprifon- 


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ment  at  Lancafter  and  Scarborough  caftles,  when  he  heard 
I  was  fet  at  hberty,  got  another  order  for  the  taking  me  up; 
and  faid,  '  He  would  ride  his  horfe  forty  miles  to  take  me, 

*  and  would  give  forty  pounds  to  have  me  taken/  Awhile 
after  I  came  io  near  as  to  have  a  meeting  within  two  miles 
of  him  :  and  then  he  was  ftruck  with  the  gout,  and  kept 
his  bed,  fo  that  it  was  thought  he  would  have  died. 

From  Thomas  Taylor's  I  vifited  friends  till  I  came  to 
Sy nderhill- Green,  where  1  had  a  large  and  general  meeting. 
The  prieft  of  the  place,  hearing  of  it,  lent  the  conftable  to 
the  juftices  for  a  warrant;  and  they  rode  their  horfes  fo 
hard,  they  almoft  fpoiled  them :  but  the  notice  they  had 
being  fhort,  and  the  way  long,  the  meeting  was  ended 
before  they  came.  I  heard  not  of  them  till  I  was  going  out 
of  the  houfe,  after  meeting  was  over ;  and  then  a  hiend 
came  and  told  me,  '  They  were  fearching  another  houfe  for 

*  me,  the  houfe  I  was  then  going  to.'  As  I  went  along  the 
clofes  towards  it,  I  met  the  conflables,  wardens,  and  the 
juftice's  clerk.  I  paffed  through  them,  they  looking  at  me, 
and  Went  to  the  houfe  they  had  been  I'earching.  Thus 
they  loft  their  defign ;  for  the  Lord's  power  bound  them, 
and  preferved  me  over  them ;  and  friends  parted,  and  all 
efcaped  them.  The  officers  went  away  as  they  came ;  for 
the  Lord  had  fruftrated  their  defign ;  praifed  be  his  name 
for  ever ! 

After  this  I  went  into  Derbyfhire.  where  I  had  a  large 
meeting.  Some  friends  were  apprehenlive  of  the  conftablc's 
coming ;  for  they  had  great  perfecution  in  thofe  parts  :  but 
our  meeting  was  quiet.  A  juftice  of  peace  in  that  county 
had  taken  away  much  of  friends  goods  :  whereupon  Ellen 
Fretweil  had  made  her  appeal  to  the  fefTions,  and  the  reft,  of 
the  juftices  granted  her  her  goods  again,  and  fpoke  to  I  hat 
perfecuting  juftice,  that  he  fhould  not  do  fo  any  more.  She 
was  moved  to  fpeak  to  that  juftice,  and  to  warn  him ; 
whereupon  he  bid  her,  '  Come  and  fit  down  on  the  bench.' 
'  Ay,'  faid  ftie,  '  if  I  may  perfuade  you  to  do  juftice  to  the 
'  country,  I  will  fit  down  with  you.'     *  No.'  faid  he,  '  then 

*  you  ftiall  not.  Get  out  of  the  court.'  As  fhe  was  ^oing, 
fhe  was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  turn  again,  and  fay,  '  She 
'  ftiould  be  there  when  he  fliould  not.'  After  the  feftions, 
he  went  home  and  drove  away  her  brother's  oxen,  for  going 
to  meetings.  Then  Sufan  Frith,  a  friend  of  Chcfterficld. 
was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  tell  him,  '  If  he  continued  in  his 
'  perfecuting  of  the  innocent,  the  Lord  would  execute  his 


So  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [16^6 

'  plagues  upon  him.'  Soon  after  which  he  fell  diflrafted, 
and  died.     This  relation  I  had  from  Ellen  Fretwell  herfelf. 

I  travelled  out  of  Derbyfliire  into  Nottinghamfhire,  and 
had  a  large  meeting  at  Skegby  ;  from  thence  went  to  Mans- 
field, where  ajfo  I  had  a  meeting;  and  thence  to  another 
town,  where  was  a  fair,  at  which  I  met  with  many  friends. 
Then  pafhng  through  the  foreft  in  a  mighty  thundering  and 
rainy  day,  1  came  to  Nottingham.  So  great  was  the  tem- 
peft,  that  many  trees  were  torn  up  by  the  roots,  and  fome 
people  killed ;  but  the  Lord  preferved  us.  On  firft-day 
following  I  had  a  large  meeting  in  Nottingham,  very  quiet; 
friends  were  come  to  fit  under  their  teacher  the  grace  of 
God,  which  brought  them  falvation,  and  were  eftablifhed 
upon  the  rock  and  foundation  Chrift  Jefus.  After  meeting 
I  went  to  vifit  the  friend  who  had  been  Iherift  about  the 
year  iG^q,  whole  prifoner  I  then  was. 

P>om  Nottingham  1  paflTed  into  Leicefterfhire,  and  came 
to  Syleby,-  where  we  had  a  large  blefTed  meeting.  After 
which  I  went  to  Leicefler  to  vifit  the  prifoners  there,  and 
then  to  John  Penford's,  where  we  had  a  general  meeting, 
large  and  precious.  From  thence  I  paflTed,  vifiting  friends 
and  my  relations,  till  I  came. to  Warwick;  where  having 
vifited  the  prifoners,  I  palTed  to  Badgley,  and  had  a  pre- 
cious meeting.  I  travelled  through  Northamptonfhire,  Bed- 
fordfhire,  Buckinghamfhire,  and  Oxfordfhire,  vifiting  friends 
in  each  county.  In  Oxfordfhire  the  devil  had  laid  a  fnare 
for  me,  but  the  Lord  broke  it ;  his  power  came  over  all,  his 
bleffed  truth  Ipread,  and  friends  were  increafed  therein. 
Thus  after  I  had  paffod  through  many  counties,  vifiting 
friends,  and  had  many  large  and  precious  meetings  amongft 
them,  I  came  to  London.  But  I  was  fo  weak  with  lying 
almoll  three  years  in  cruel  and  hard  imprifonments,  my 
joints  and  my  body  were  fo  ftilF  and  benumbed,  that  I 
could  hardly  get  upon  my  horfe,  nor  bend  my  joints,  nor 
well  bear  to  be  near  the  fire,  or  to  eat  warm  meat,  I  had 
been  kept  fo  long  from  it.  Being  come  to  London,  1  walk- 
ed a  little  among  the  ruins,  and  took  good  notice  of  them. 
I  faw  the  city  lying,  according  as  the  word  of  the  Lord 
came  to  me  concerning  it  feveral  years  before. 

After  I  had  been  a  time  in  London,  and  vifited  meetings 
through  the  city,  I  went  into  the  country  again,  and  had 
large  meetings  as  I  went,  at  Kingflon,  Reading,  and  in 
WiUfiiire,  till  I  came  to  Briftol;  where  alfo  I  had  many 
lar^e  incctin<rs.     Thomas  Lower  came  out  of  Corn\yaU  to 


j666]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  81 

meet  me,  and  friends  from  feveral  parts  of  the  nation,  it  be- 
ing then  the  fair-time.  After  I  was  clear  of  Briftol,  I  went 
to  Nath.  Crips's,  and  through  the  country  to  London  again, 
having  large  meetings  in  the  way,  and  all  quiet,  bleffed  be 
the  Lord.  Thus,  though  I  was  very  weak,  I  travelled  up 
and  down  in  the  fervice  of  the  Lord,  who  enabled  me  to 
go  through  in  it. 

About  this  time,  fome  who  had  run  out  from  truth  and 
claflied  againfl  friends,  were  reached  unto  by  the  power  of 
the  Lord,  which  came  wonderfully  over,  and  made  them 

*  condemn  and  tear  their  papers  of  controverfy  to  pieces/ 
Several  meetings  we  had  with  them,  the  Lord's  everlafting 
power  was  over  all,  and  fet  judgment  on  the  head  of  that 
which  had  run  out.  In  thefe  meetings,  which  lafted  whole 
days,  feveral  who  had  gone  out  with  John  Perrot  and 
others  came  in  again,  and  condemned  that  fpirit  which  led 
them  to  '  keep  on  their  hats  when  friends  prayed,  and  when 
'  themfelves  prayed.'     Some  of  them  faid,   '  Friends  were 

*  more  righteous  than  they ;'  and  that,  '  If  friends  had  not 
'  ftood  they  had  been  gone  and  had  fallen  into  perdition.' 
Thus  the  Lord's  power  was  wonderfully  manifefled,  and 
came  over  all. 

Then  I  was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  recommend  the  fetting 
up  of  five  monthly  meetings  of  men  and  women  in  the  city 
of  London,  befides  the  women's  meetings  and  the  quarterly 
m^'eetings,  to  take  care  of  God's  glory,  and  to  admonifti  ajid 
exhort  fuch  as  walked  diforderly  or  carelefsly,  and  not  ac- 
cording to  truth.  For  whereas  friends  had  only  quarterly 
meetings,  now  truth  was  fpread  and  friends  grown  more 
numerous,  I  was  moved  to  recommend  the  fetting  up, of 
monthly  meetings  throughout  the  nation.  And  the  Lord 
opened  to  me  what  I  muft  do,  and  how  the  men's  and 
women's  monthly  and  quarterly  meetings  fliould  be  ordered 
and  eflablifhed  in  this  and  other  nations ;  and  that  I  fhould 
write  to  thofe  where  I  came  not,  to  do  the  fame.  After 
things  were  well  fettled  at  London,  and  the  Lord's  truth, 
power,  feed,  and  life  reigned  and  fhined  over  all  in  the 
city,  I  went  into  Effex.  After  the  monthly  meetings  were 
fettled  in  that  county,  I  went  into  Suffolk  and  Norfolk, 
Thomas  Dry  being  with  me.  When  we  had  vifited  friends 
in  thofe  parts,  and  the  monthly  meetings  were  fettled,  we 
went  into  Huntingdonftiire,  where  we  had  very  large  and 
bleffed  meetings;  and  though  we  met  v-zith  fome  oppohtion, 
Che  Lord's  power  came  over  all,  and  the  monthly  meetings 

Vol.   U,  l 


St  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [i66(5 

were  eftablifhed  there  alfo.  When  we  came  into  Bedford- 
Ihire,  we  had  great  oppofition ;  but  the  Lord's  power  came 
over  it  all.  Afterwards  we  went  into  Nottinghamfhire, 
where  we  had  many  precious  meetings,  and  the  monthly 
meetings  were  fettled  there.  Then,  paiTmg  into  Lincoln- 
Ihire,  we  had  a  meeting  of  fome  men  friends  of  all  the  meet- 
intrs  in  the  county,  at  his  houfe  who  had  been  formerly 
fherifF  of  Lincoln  ;  and  all  was  quiet.  After  this  meeting 
we  palTed  over  Trent  into  Nottinghamfhire,  he  that  had 
been  the  IherifF  of  Lincoln  being  with  me,  where  we  had 
fome  of  all  the  meetings  in  that  county  together.  Our 
meeting  was  glorious  and  peaceable,  and  many  precious 
meetings  we  had  in  that  county. 

At  that  time  William  Smith  was  very  weak  and  fick,  and 
the  conftables  and  others  had  feized  all  his  goods,  to  the 
very  bed  he  lay  upon,  for  truth's  fake.  Thefe  officers 
threatened  to  break  up  our  meeting ;  but  the  Lord's  power 
chained  them,  fo  that  they  had  not  power  to  meddle  with 
us,  bleffed  be  his  name.  After  the  meeting  I  went  to  vilit 
William  Smith,  and  there  were  conftables  and  others  watch- 
ing his  com  and  his  beafts,  that  none  of  them  might  be  re- 
moved. 

From  thence  we  pafled  into  Leiceflerfhire  and  Warwick- 
fhire,  where  we  had  many  blefled  meetings.  The  order  of 
the  gofpel  was  fet  up,  and  the  men's  monthly  meetings 
eftabliflled  in  all  thofe  counties.  Then  we  went  into  Der- 
bylhire,  where  we  had  leveral  large  and  blelTed  meetings. 
In  many  places  we  were  threatened  by  the  officers,  but 
through  the  power  of  the  Lord  we  efcaped  their  hands. 
Leaving  things  well  fettled  in  Derbyfhire,  we  travelled  over 
the  Peak-hills  (which  were  very  cold,  for  it  was  then  froft; 
and  fnow)  and  came  into  Staftbrdfhire.  At  Thomas  Ham- 
merfley's  we  had  a  general  men's  meeting ;  where  things 
were  well  fettled  in  the  gofpel  order,  and  the  monthly 
meetings  eflabliflied.  I  was  fo  exceeding  weak,  I  was 
hardly  able  to  get  on  or  off  my  horfe's  back ;  but  my  fpirit 
being  earnefUy  engaged  in  the  work  the  Lord  had  concerned 
me  in  and  fent  me  forth  about,  I  travelled  on  therein,  not- 
withflanding  the  weaknefs  of  my  body,  having  confidence 
in  the  Lord,  that  he  would  carry  me  through,  as  he  did  by 
his  power.  We  came  into  Chefhire,  where  we  had  feveral 
blcifed  meetings,  and  a  general  men's  meeting ;  wherein  all 
the  monthly  meetings  for  that  county  were  fettled,  accord- 
ing to  the  gofpel  order,  in  and  by  the  power  of  God.     Afr 


1666]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  83 

ter  the  meeting  I  paffed  away.  But  when  the  juftlces  heard 
of  it,  they  were  very  much  troubled  that  they  had  not  come 
and  broke  it  up,  and  taken  me ;  but  the  Lord  prevented 
them.  After  I  had  cleared  myfelf  there  in  the  Lord's  fer- 
vice,  I  palled  into  Lancafhire,  to  William  Barnes's,  near 
Warrington,  where  met  fome  of  moft  of  the  meetings  in 
that  county ;  and  there  all  the  monthly  meetings  were  efta- 
bli filed  in  the  gofpel  order.  From  thence  I  fent  papers 
into  Weftmoreland  by  Leonard  Fell  and  Robert  Widders, 
and  alfo  into  Bifhoprick,  Cleveland,  Northumberland, 
Cumberland,  and  Scotland,  to  exhort  friends  to  fettle  the 
monthly  meetings  in  the  Lord's  power  in  thofe  places; 
which  they  did.  So  the  Lord's  power  came  over  all,  and 
the  heirs  of  it  came  to  inherit  it.  For  the  authority  of  our 
meetings  is  the  power  of  God,  the  gofpel,  which  brings  life 
and  immortality  to  light ;  that  all  might  fee  over  the  devil 
that  darkened  them,  that  all  the  heirs  of  the  gofpel  might 
walk  according  to  the  gofpel,  and  glorify  God  with  their 
bodies,  fouls,  and  fpirits,  which  are  the  Lord's :  for  the  or- 
der of  the  glorious  gofpel  is  not  of  man  nor  by  man.  To 
this  meeting  in  Lancafhire,  Margaret  Fell,  being  a  prifoner, 
got  liberty  to  come,  and  went  with  me  from  thence  to  Jane 
Milner's  in  Chefhire,  where  we  parted.  I  paffed  into 
Shroplhire,  and  from  thence  into  Wales,  and  had  a  large 
general  men's  meeting  at  Charles  Lloyd's,  where  fome  op- 
pofers  came  in ;  but  the  Lord's  power  brought  them  down. 

Having  gone  through  Denbighfbire  and  Montgomery- 
fliire,  we  paffed  into  Merionethlhire,  where  we  had  feveral 
bleffed  meetings  ;  and  then  to  the  fea-fide,  where  we 
had  a  precious  meeting.  We  left  Wales,  the  monthly 
meetings  being  fettled  there  in  the  power  of  God,  and  re- 
turned into  Shropfhire,  where  the  friends  of  the  county  ga- 
thering together,  the  monthly  meetings  were  eftablifhed 
there.  Coming  into  Worceflerfhire,  after  many  meetings 
amongft  friends  in  that  county,  we  had  a  general  men's 
meeting  at  Henrv  Gibs's,  at  Paflmr ;  where  alio  the  month- 
ly meetings  were  fettled  in  the  gofpel  order. 

The  feffions  being  held  that  day  in  the  town,  fome  friends 
were  concerned  left  they  Ihould  fend  officers  to  break  up 
our  meeting ;  but  the  power  of  the  Lord  reflrained  them, 
fo  that  it  Wc^s  quiet ;  through  which  power  we  had  domi- 
nion. I  had  feveral  meetings  amongft  friends  in  that  coun- 
ty, till  I  came  to  Worceftcr;  and  it  being  the  fair-time, 
we  had  a  precious  meeting.     There  was  then  in  Worcefter 

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84  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1666 

one  major  Wild,  a  perfecuting  man ;  and  after  I  was  gone 
fome  of  his  foldiers  inquired  after  me ;  but  having  left  the 
friends  there  fettled  in  good  order,  we  paffed  to  Droitwich, 
and  from  thence  to  Shrew fbury,  where  alfo  we  had  a  very 
precious  meeting.  The  mayor,  hearing  I  was  in  town,  got 
the  reil  of  the  officers  together  to  confult  what  to  do  againft 
me ;  for  they  faid,  '  The  great  Quaker  of  England  is  come 
'  to  town.'  But  when  they  were  come  together,  the  Lord 
confounded  their  councils,  fo  that  fome  were  for  imprifon- 
ing  me,  others  oppofed  it;  and  being  divided  amongft 
themfelves,  I  efcaped  their  hands. 

We  went  into  Radnorfliire,  where  we  had  many  precious 
meetings,  and  the  monthly  meetings  were  fettled  in  the 
Lord's  power.  As  we  came  out  of  that  county,  flaying  a 
little  at  a  market-town,  a  juftice's  clerk  and  other  rude  fel- 
lows combined  together  to  do  us  a  mifchief  upon  the  road. 
Accordingly  they  followed  us  out  of  town,  and  foon  over- 
took us ;  but  there  being  many  market  people  on  the  way, 
they  were  fomewhat  hindered  from  doing  what  they  intend- 
ed. Yet  obferving  two  of  our  company  ride  at  fome  dif- 
tance  behind,  they  fet  upon  them  two,  and  one  of  them 
drew  his  fword,  and  cut  Richard  Moor,  the  furgeon  of 
Shrewfbury.  Meanwhile  another  of  thefe  rude  fellows 
came  galloping  after  me  and  the  other  friend  with  me;  and 
we  being  to  pafs  over  a  bridge,  fomewhat  of  the  narroweft 
for  him  to  pafs  by  us,  he,  in  his  eagernefs  to  get  before  us, 
rode  into  the  brook,  and  plunged  his  horfe  into  a  deep  hole 
in  the  water.  I  faw  the  deiign,  flopped,  and  defired  friends, 
to  be  patient,  and  give  them  no  occafion.  In  this  time 
came  Richard  Moor  up  to  us,  with  the  other  friend,  who. 
knew  the  men  and  their  names.  Then  we  rode  on,  and  a 
little  further  met  another  man  on  foot,  much  in  liquor,  with 
a  naked  fword  in  his  hand,  and  not  far  beyond  him  two  men 
and  two  women,  one  of  which  men  had  his  thumb  cut  oflF 
by  the  drunken  man  ;  for  being  in  drink  he  attempted  rude- 
nefs  to  one  of  the  women,  and  this  man  withflanding  him, 
and  refcuing  her,  he  whipped  out  his  fword  and  cut  off  his 
thumb.  This  mifchicvous  man  had  a  horfe,  that,  being 
loofe,  followed  him  a  pretty  way  behind.  I  rode  after  the 
horfe,  caught  him,  and  brought  him  to  the  man  who  had 
his  thumb  cut  off;  and  bid  him  take  the  horfe  to  tlie  next 
jullicc  of  peace,  by  which  means  they  might  find  out  and 
purfiie  the  man  that  had  wounded  him. 

Upon   this  occafion  I  wrote  a  letter  to  the  juflices,  and 


i666]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  85 

the  judge  of  aflize,  which  was  then  at  hand.  I  employed 
ibme  friends  to  carry  it  to  the  juftices  firft.  The  juftice, 
to  whom  the  clerk  belonged,  rebuked  him  and  the  others 
alfo,  for  abufmg  us  upon  the  highway ;  fo  that  they  were 
glad  to  come  and  intreat  friends  not  to  appear  againft  them 
at  the  afiize ;  which,  upon  their  fubmiffion  and  acknow- 
ledgment, was  granted.  This  was  of  good  fervice  in  the 
country  ;  for  it  ftopped  many  rude  people,  who  had  been 
forward  to  abufe  friends. 

We  paffed  into  Hereford fhire,  where  we  had  feveral  blef- 
fed  meetings.  We  had  a  general  men's  meeting  alfo, 
where  all  the  monthly  meetings  were  fettled.  There  was 
about  this  time  a  proclamation  againft  meetings  ;  and  as  we 
came  through  Herefordfhire,  we  were  told  of  a  great  meet- 
ing there  of  the  Prefbyterians,  who  had  engaged  themfelves 
to  ftand,  and  give  up  all,  rather  than  forfake  their  meetings. 
When  they  heard  of  this  proclamation,  the  people  came, 
but  the  prieft  was  gone,  and  left  them  at  a  lofs.  Then  they 
met  in  Leominfter  privately,  and  provided  bread,  cheefe, 
and  drink,  in  readinefs,  that  if  the  officers  fhould  come,  they 
might  put  up  their  bibles  and  fall  to  eating.  The  bailiff 
found  them  out,  came  in  among  them,  and  faid,  '  Their 
'  bread  and  cheefe  fhould  not  cover  them,  he  would  have 
'  their  fpeakers.'  They  cried,  '  What  then  would  become 
'  of  their  wives  and  children  ?'  But  he  took  their  fpeakers 
and  kept  them  awhile.  This  the  bailiff  told  Peter  Young, 
and  faid,  '  They  were  the  verieft  hypocrites  that  ever  made 

*  a  profellion  of  religion.' 

The  like  contrivance  they  had  in  other  places.  For  there 
was  one  Pocock  at  London,  that  married  Abigail  Darcy, 
who  was  called  a  lady  ;  and  fhe  being  convinced  of  truth,  I 
went  to  his  houfe  to  fee  her.  This  Pocock  had  been  one  of 
the  triers  of  the  priefts  ;  and,  being  an  high  Prefoyterian, 
and  envious  againft  us,  he  ufed  to  call  our  friends  houle- 
creepers.  He  being  prefent,  fhe  faid  to  me,  '  I  have  fome- 
'  thing  to  fpeak  to  thee  againft  my  hufband.'  '  Nay,'  faid  I, 
"  thou  mull  not  fpeak  againft  thy  hufband.'  '  Yes,'  faid 
'  fhe,  '  but  I  muft  in  this  cafe.     The  laft  firft-day,'  faid  fhe, 

*  he,  his  priefts  and  people,  the  Prefbyterians,  met;  they 
'  had  candles,  tobacco-pipes,  bread,  cheefe,  and  cold  meat 

*  on  the  table  ;  and  they  agreed  beforehand,  if  the  ofiicers 

*  fhould  come  in  upon  thera,  they  would  leave  their  prcach- 
^  ing  and  praying,  and  fall  to  their  cold  meat.'  '  Oh,'  faid 
'  I  to  him,  '  is  not  this  a  fharae  to  you  who  imprifoned  us» 


06  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1667 

*  and  fpoiled  our  goods,  becaufe  we  would  not  join  you  in: 

*  your  religion,  and  called  us  houfe-ereepers,  that  ye  do  nofc 

*  Hand  to  your  own  religion  yourfelves  ?   Did  ye  ever  find 

*  our  meetings  fluffed  with  bread  and  cheefe  and  tobacco- 

*  pipes  ?  Or  did  ye  ever  read  in  the  fcriptures  of  any  fuch 

*  pra6lice  among  the  faints  ?'  '  Why,'  faid  the  old  man, 
«  we  muft  be  as  wife  as  ferpents.'     I  anfwered,  '  This  is  the 

*  ferpent's  wifdom  indeed.     But  who  would  have  thought 

*  that  you  Prefbyterians  and  Independents,  who  perfecuted, 
'  imprifoned  others,  fpoiled  their  goodvS,  and  whipped  fuch 
^  as  would  not   follow  your  religion,    fhould  now  flinch 

*  yourfelves.  and  not  dare  to  (land  to  your  own  religion, 
'  but  cover  it  with  tobacco-pipes,  flagons  of  drink,  cold 
'  meat,  and  bread  and  cheefe  !'  But  this,  and  fuch-like  de- 
ceitful prafl:ices,  I  underilood  afterwards,  were  too  common 
amongft  them  in  times  of  perfecution. 

After  we  had  travelled  through  Herefordfliire,  and  meet- 
ings were  well  fettled  there,  we  paffed  into  Monmouthfliire, 
where  I  had  feveral  bleffed  meetings  ;  and  at  Walter  Jen- 
kins's, who  had  been  a  juftice  of  peace,  we  had  a  large 
meeting,  where  fome  were  convinced :  this  meeting  was  qui- 
et. But  to  a  meeting  before  this  came  the  bailiff  of  the 
hundred,  almoft:  drunk,  pretending  he  was  to  take  up  the 
fpeakers.  There  was  a  mighty  power  of  God  in  the  meet- 
ing ;  fo  that,  although  he  raged,  it  limited  him,  that  he 
could  not  break  up  the  meeting.  When  it  was  over,  I  fl;aid 
awhile,  and  he  llaidalfo.  After  fome  time  I  fpoke  to  him, 
and  fo  paffed  quietly  away.  At  night  fome  rude  people 
came,  and  fliot  off  a  mufket  againft  the  houfe  ;  but  did  not 
hurt  any  body.  Thus  the  Lord's  power  came  over  all,  and 
chained  down  the  unruly  fpirits,  fo  that  we  efcaped  them. 
We  came  to  Rofs  that  night,  and  had  a  meeting  at  James 
Merrick's. 

After  this  we  came  into  Gloucefterfliire,  and  had  a  gene- 
ral men's  meeting  at  Nathaniel  Crips's,  where  all  the  month- 
ly meetings  were  fettled  in  the  Lord's  everlafling  power; 
and  the  heirs  of  fah-ation  were  exhorted  to  take  their  pof- 
fellions  in  the  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  which  was  and  is 
the  authority  of  their  meetings.  Many  bleffed  meetings  we 
had  in  that  county,  before  we  came  to  Briftol.  And  after 
leveral  powerful  fcafons,  the  mens  and  women's  meetings 
ivere  fettled  there  alio. 

As  I  was  in  bed  at  Briftol,  the  word  of  the  Lord  came 
{o  mv,  that   I  muff  go  back  to  London.     Next  morning 


16673  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  8? 

Alexander  Parker  and  feveral  others  came  to  me.  I  aflced 
them,  What  they  felt  ?  They  afked  me,  What  was  upon 
jne  ?  I  told  them,  I  felt  I  muft  return  to  London.  They 
faid,  the  fame  was  upon  them.  So  we  gave  up  to  return 
to  London ;  for  which  way  the  Lord  moved  and  led  us, 
thither  we  went  in  his  power.  Leaving  Briftol,  we  paffed 
into  Wiltfhire,  and  eftablilhed  the  men's  monthly  meetings 
in  the  Lord's  power  there;  and  vifited  friends  till  we  came 
to  London. 

After  we  had  vifited  friends  in  the  city,  I  was  moved  to 
exhort  them  to  bring  all  their  marriages  to  the  men's  and 
women's  meetings,  that  they  might  lay  them  before  the 
faithful ;  that  care  might  be  taken  to  prevent  fuch  diforders 
as  had  been  committed  by  fome.  For  many  had  gone  to- 
gether in  marriage  contrary  to  their  relations  minds  ;  and 
fome  young,  raw  people,  that  came  among  us,  had  mixed 
with  the  world.  Widows  had  married  without  making 
provilion  for  their  children  by  their  former  hulbands,  be- 
fore their  fecond  marriage.  Yet  I  had  given  forth  a  paper 
concerning  marriages  about  the  year  1653,  when  truth  was 
but  little  fpread,  advifmg  friends,  who  might  be  concerned 
in  that  cafe,   '  That  they  might  lay  it  before  the  faithful  in 

*  time,  before  any  thing  was  concluded ;  and  afterwards  pub- 

*  lifti  it  in  the  end  of  a  meeting,  or  in  a  market,  as  they 

*  were  moved  thereto.     And  when  all  things  were   found 

*  clear,  being  free  from  all  others,  and  their  relations  fatis- 

*  fied,  they   might  appoint  a  meeting  on  purpofe,  for  the 

*  taking  of  each  other ;  in  the  prefence  of  at  leaft  twelve 

*  faithful  witneffes,'  Yet  thefe  direflions  not  being  obferv- 
ed,  and  truth  being  now  more  fpread  over  the  nation,  it 
was  ordered  by  the  fame  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  '  That 

*  marriages  Ihould  be  laid  before  the  men's  monthly  and 

*  quarterly  meetings,  or  as  the  meetings  were  then  eftablifli- 

*  ed  ;  that  friends  might  fee,  that  the  relations  of  thofe  v/lio 

*  proceeded  to  marriage  were  fatisfied  ;  that  the  parties  were 

*  clear  from  all  others;  and  that  widows  had  made  provifion 

*  for  their  firft  hulband's  children,  before  they  married  again  ; 

*  and  what  elfe  was  needful  to  be  inquired  into  ;  that   all 

*  things  might  be  kept  clean  and  pure,  and  be  done  in  righte- 

*  ouinefs  to  the  glory  of  God/  Afterwards  it  was  ordered  in 
the  wifdom  of  God,  '  That  if  either  of  the  parties  intending 

*  to  marry  came  out  of  another  nation,  county,  or  monthly 
'  meeting,  they  fhould  bring  a  certificate  from  the  monthly 

*  meeting  to  which  they  belonged ;  for  the  fatisfaclion  of  the 


88  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1667 

*  monthly  meeting  before  which  they  came  to  lay  their  in- 

*  tentions  of  marriage.' 

After  thefe  things,  with  many  other  fervices  for  God, 
were  fet  in  order,  and  fettled  in  the  city,  I  pafTed  out  of 
London,  in  the  leadings  of  the  Lord's  powerj  into  Hert- 
fordihire.  After  I  had  vifited  friends  there,  and  the  men's 
monthly  meetings  were  fettled,  I  had  a  great  meeting  at 
Baldock  of  many  forts  of  people.  Then  returning  towards 
London  by  Waltham,  I  advifed  the  fetting  up  of  a  fchool 
there  for  teaching  boys ;  and  alfo  a  women's  fchool  to  be 
opened  at  Shacklewell  for  inftrufting  girls  and  young  maid- 
ens, in  whatfoever  things  were  civil  and  ufeful  in  the  crea* 
tion. 

Thus,  after  feveral  precious  meetings  in  the  country,  I 
came  to  London  again,  where  I  flaid  awhile  in  the  work 
and  fervice  of  the  Lord ;  and  then  went  into  Buckingham- 
fhire,  where  I  had  many  precious  meetings.  At  John 
Brown's  of  Weflon  near  Aylefbury  fome  of  the  m.en  friends 
of  each  meeting  being  gathered  together,  the  men's  monthly 
meetings  for  that  county  were  eftabliflied,  in  the  order  of 
the  gofpel,  the  power  of  God ;  which  confirmed  it  in  all 
that  felt  it,  who  came  thereby  to  fee  and  feel  that  the  power 
of  God  was  the  authority  of  their  meetings.  I  then  went  to 
Nathaniel  Ball's,  at  North  Newton  near  Banbury,  Oxford- 
fhire,  who  was  a  friend  in  the  miniftry.  And  there  being  a 
general  meeting,  where  fome  of  all  the  meetings  were  pre- 
fent,  the  monthly  meetings  for  that  county  were  fettled  in 
the  power  of  God  ;  and  friends  were  very  glad  of  them ;  for 
they  came  into  their  fervices  in  the  church,  to  take  care  for 
God's  glory.  After  this,  we  came  into  Gloucefterfhire,  vi- 
fiting  friends  till  we  came  into  Monmouthfhire,  to  Richard 
Hambery's  ;  where  meeting  with  fome  of  all  the  meetings 
of  that  county,  the  monthly  meetings  were  fettled  there  in 
the  Lord's  power,  that  all  in  it  might  take  care  of  God's 
glory,  and  admonifli  and  exhort  fuch  as  did  not  walk  as  be- 
came the  gofpel.  And  indeed  thefe  meetings  made  a  great 
reformation  amongll  people,  infomuch  that  the  juftices  took 
notice  of  their  ufefuhiefs. 

Richard  Hambery  and  his  wife  accompanied  us  a  day's 
journey,  vifiting  friends,  till  we  came  to  a  widow's,  where 
we  lay  that  night.  From  thence  we  paffed  over  the  hills, 
vifiting  friends,  and  declaring  the  truth  to  people,  till  we 
came  to  another  widow's,  where  we  had  a  meetin^T.     The 


1667]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  89 

woman  could  not  fpeak  Englifh ;  yet  fhe  praifed  the  Lord 
for  fending  us  to  vifit  them. 

We  travelled  till  we  came  to  Swanfey,  where  on  the  firft- 
day  we  had  a  large  and  precious  meeting,  the  Lord's  pre- 
fence  being  eminently  amongft  us.  On  a  week  day  after- 
wards we  had  a  general  meetmg  beyond  Swanfey,  of  men 
friends  from  Swanfey,  Tenby,  Haverfordwelt,  and  other 
places  ;  and  the  monthly  meetings  were  fettled  in  the  gofpel 
order,  and  received  by  friends  in  ths  power  of  the  Lord; 
whofe  truth  was  over  all. 

From  hence  we  endeavoured  to  get  over  the  water  into 
Cornvirall :  and  in  order  thereunto  went  back  through 
Swanfey  to  Mumbles,  thinking  to  have  got  palTage  there; 
but  the  mafter  deceived  us ;  for  though  he  had  promifed  to 
carry  us,  when  we  came  he  would  not.  We  went  to  ano- 
ther place,  where  was  a  paffagc-boat,  into  which  we  got  our 
horfes  ;  but  fome  rude  men  in  the  boat  (though  called  gen- 
tlemen) threatened  to  piftol  the  mailer  if  he  took  us  in  ; 
who,  being  atraid  of  them,  turned  our  horfes  out  again ; 
which  put  us  out  of  hopes  of  getting  over  that  way.  Where- 
fore turning  back  into  the  country,  we  ftaid  up  all  night ; 
and  about  the  fecond  hour  in  the  morning  took  horfe,  and 
travelled  till  we  came  near  Cardiff,  v/here  we  (laid  one  night. 
The  next  day  we  came  to  Newport,  and  it  being  market- 
day  there,  feveral  friends  came  to  us,  with  whom  we  fat 
awhile ;  and  after  a  fine  refrefiiing  feafon  together,  wc  part- 
ed from  them,  and  went  forward. 

Beyond  this  market-town  we  overtook  a  man  who  linger- 
ed on  the  way,  as  if  he  ftaid  for  fomebody ;  but  when  we 
came  up  to  him.  he  rode  along  with  us,  and  afked  us  many 
queftions.  At  length  meeting  with  two,  who  feemed  to  be 
pages  to  fome  great  perfons,  he  took  acquaintance  with 
them;  and  I  heard  him  tell  them  he  would  ftop  us,  and 
take  us  up.  We  rode  on  ;  and  when  he  came  to  us,  and 
would  have  ftopped  us,  I  told  him.  '  None  ought  to  ilop 

*  us  on  the  king's  highway,  for  it  was  as  free  for  us  as  for 

*  them  ;'  and  I  was  moved  to  exhort  him  to  fear  the  Lord. 
Then  he  galloped  away  before  us  ;  and  I  perceived  his  in- 
tent was  to  ftop  us  at  Shipton  in  Wales,-  a  garrifon-town, 
tluough  which  we  were  to  pafs.  When  we  were  come  to 
Shipton,  John-ap-Jobn  being  v/ith  me.  we  walked  down 
the  hill  into  the  town,  leading  our  horfes.  It  being  mar- 
ket-day there,  feveral  friends  met  us,  and  would  have  had 
us  to  an  inn.     Jjut  we  were  not  to  go  into  any  inn,  fo  we 

A'^OL.  IL  M 


5<5  GEORGE    FOX'S     JOURNAL.  [1667 

walked  direftly  through  the  town  over  the  bridge,  and  then 
were  out  of  the  Hmits  of  that  town.  Thus  the  Lord's  ever- 
lafling  arm  and  power  preferved  us,  and  canied  us  over  in 
his  work  and  fervice. 

The  next  firft-day  we  had  a  large  meeting  in  the  Foreft 
of  Dean  ;  and  all  was  quiet.  Next  day  we  paiFed  over  the 
water  to  Oldftone ;  where  after  we  had  vifited  friends,  we 
came  again  to  William  Yeomans's,  at  Jubb's  Court  in  So- 
merfetfliire.  P^om  thence  we  went  to  a  meeting  at  Poflet, 
whither  feveral  friends  of  Briftol  came  to  us.  After  which 
we  went  further  into  the  country,  and  had  feveral  large 
meetings.  The  Lord's  living  prefence  was  with  us,  fup- 
porting  and  refrefliing  us  in  our  labour  and  travel  in  his 
I'ervice. 

We  came  to  a  place  near  Minehead,  where  we  had  a  ge- 
neral meeting  of  the  men  friends  in  Somerfetfhire.  There 
came  alfo  a  cheat,  whom  lome  friendly  people  would  have 
had  me  to  have  taken  along  with  me.  I  faw  he  was  a  cheat; 
therefore  bid  them  bring  him  to  me,  and  fee  whether  he 
would  look  me  in  the  face.  Some  were  ready  to  think  I 
was  too  hard  towards  him,  becaufe  I  would  not  let  him  go 
along  with  me  ;  but  when  they  brought  him  to  me,  he  was 
not  able  to  look  me  in  the  face,  but  looked  hither  and  thi- 
ther; for  he  was  indeed  a  cheat,  and  had  cheated  a  prieft, 
by  pretending  himfelf  to  be  a  minifter,  he  had  got  a  prieft's 
luit,  and  went  away  with  it. 

After  the  meeting  we  palfed  to  Minehead,  where  we  tarri- 
ed that  night.  In  the  night  I  had  an  exercife  upon  me, 
from  a  fenfc  I  had  of  a  dark  fpirit  working  and  llviving  to 
get  up  to  difturb  the  church  of  Chrift.  Next  morning  I  was 
moved  to  write  a  few  lines  to  friendsj  as  a  warning  thereof, 
as  follows  : 

'  Dear  Friends, 

*  T     IVE  in  the  power  of  the  Lord  God,  in  his  Seed  that 

*  JLj  is   fet   over  all,  and  is   over  all  trials  that  you  may 

*  have  from  the  dark  fpirit,  which  would  be   owned   in  its 

*  a6lings,  and  thrull  itfelf  amongll  you  ;  which  is  not  come 
'  as  yet:   but  in  the  power  of  the   Lord  God,  and  his  Seed, 

*  keep  over  it,  and  bring  it  to  condemnation.      For  I  felt  a 

*  kind  of  dark  fpirit  thrufling  itfelf  up  towards  you,  and 

*  heaving  up  lafl  night ;  but  you  may  keep  it  down  with 
'  the  power  of  God;  that  the  witnefs  may  arife  to  condemn 
'its  actings,  fo  far  as  it  hath  fpread  its  dark  works,  before  it 


1668]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  91 

*  have  any  admittance.     So  no  more,  but  my  love  ki  the 

*  Seed  of  God,  which  changeth  not. 

'  G.  F.- 
«  Minehead  in  Somerfetfliire,  the 
'  2 2d  of  the  4th  month,  1668.' 

The  next  day  feveral  friends  of  Minehead  accompanied 
us  as  far  as  Barnftable  and  Appledon  in  Devonftiire,  where 
we  had  a  meeting.  Barnftable  had  been  a  bloody  perfecut- 
ing  town.  There  were  two  men  friends  of  that  town,  who 
had  been  a  great  while  at  fea  ;  and  coming  home  to  vifit 
their  relations  (one  of  them  having  a  wife  and  children)  the 
mayor  of  the  town  fent  for  them,  under  pretence  of  dif- 
courfe  with  them  ;  and  put  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupre- 
macy  to  them.  Becaufe  they  could  not  fwear,  he  fent  them 
to  Exeter  gaol,  where  judge  Archer  premunired  them,  and 
kept  them  till  one  of  them  died  in  prifon.  When  I  heard 
of  this,  I  was  moved  to  write  a  letter  to  judge  Archer,  and 
another  to  that  mayor  of  Barnftable,  laying  their  wicked 
and  unchriftian  anions  upon  their  heads  ;  and,  letting  them 
know,  that  the  '  blood  of  that  man  would  be  required  at 

*  their  hands/ 

After  a  precious  meeting  at  Appledon  among  fome  faith- 
ful friends  there,  we  paffed  to  Stratton,  and  ftaid  at  an  inn  all 
night.  Next  day  we  rode  to  Humphrey  Lower's,  where  we 
had  a  very  precious  meeting;  the  next  day  to  Truro;  fo  vifit- 
ing  friends  till  we  came  to  the  Land's  End.  Then  coming  by 
the  fouth  part  of  that  county,  we  vilited  friends  till  we  came 
to  Tregangeeves,  where  at  Loveday  Hambley's  we  had  a 
general  meeting  for  all  the  county ;  in  which  the  monthly 
meetings  were  fettled  in  the  Lord's  power,  and  in  the  blefled 
order  of  the  gofpel  ;  that  all  who  were  faithful  might  admo- 
nifli  and  exhort  fuch  as  walked  not  according  to  the  gofpel ; 
that  the  houfe  of  God  might  be  kept  clean,  righteouinefs 
might  run  down,  and  all  unrighteoufnefs  be  fwept  away. 
Several,  who  had  run  out,  were  brought  to  condemn  what 
they  had  done  amifs ;  and  through  repentance  cam.e  m 
again. 

Being  clear  of  that  county,  we  came  into  Devonfliire, 
and  had  a  meeting  amongft  friends  at  Plyi-nouth.  Whence 
pafting  to  Richard  Brown's,  we  came  to  the  widow  Phi- 
iips's,  where  we  had  fome  men  friends  from  all  the  meet- 
ings together;  and  there  the  men's  monthly  meetings  were 
fettled  in  the  heavenly  order  of  the  gofpel,  the  power  of 

M   3 


92  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1668 

God;  which  anfwered  the  witnefs  of  God  in  all.  There 
was  a  great  noife  of  a  troop  of  horfe  coming  to  difturb  our 
meeting  ;  but  the  I>ord's  power  prevented  it,  and  preferved 
us  in  peace  and  lafety. 

After  things  were  well  fettled,  and  the  meeting  done,  we 
came  to  King's  Bridge,  and  vifited  friends.  Then  (leaving 
friends  in  thofe  parts  well  fettled  in  the  power  of  God)  we 
palled  to  TopQiain  and  Membury,  vifiting  friends,  and  hav- 
mg  many  meetings  in  the  way,  till  we  came  to  llcheller  in 
Somerfetfhire.  Here  we  had  a  general  men's  meeting,  and 
therein  fettled  the  men's  monthly  meetings  for  that  county 
in  the  Lord's  everlafling  power,  the  order  of  the  golpel. 
After  the  meetings  were  fettled,  and  friends  refrelhed,  com- 
forted in  the  Lord's  power,  and  eftablifhed  upon  Chrift, 
their  rock  and  foundation,  we  palfed  to  Puddimore  ;  where, 
at  William  Beaton's,  we  had  a  blelfed  meeting,  and  all  was 
quiet  :   though  the  conftables  had  threatened  before. 

When  we  had  vifited  mod  of  the  meetings  in  Somerfet- 
fhire, we  pafTed  into  Dorfetfhirc  to  George  Harris's,  where 
we  had  a  large  men's  meeting.  There  ail  the  men's  months 
ly  meetings  for  that  county  were  fettled  in  the  glorious  or- 
der of  the  gofpel ;  that  all  in  the  power  of  God  might  '  feek 

•  that  which  was  lofl,  bring  again  that  v.diich  was  driven 
'  away  ;  cherifri  the  good,  and  reprove  the  evil.' 

Then  we  came  to  Southampton,  where  we  had  a  lai-ge 
meeting  on  the  firfl-day.  From  thence  we  went  to  Capt. 
Reeves's,  where  the  general  men's  meeting  for  Hampfliire 
was  appointed;  to  which  fome  from  all  parts  of  the  county 
came,  and  a  blefTed  meeting  we  had.  The  men's  monthly 
meetings  for  that  county  were  fettled  in  the  order  of  the 
gofpel,  which  had  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light 
m  them. 

But  there  came  a  rude  company  of  Ranters,  who  had 
oppofed  and  ditlurbed  our  meetings  much.  One  of  the 
women  had  lain  with  a  man,  who  had  declared  it  at  the 
Markct-ctofs,  and  gloried  in  his  wickednefs.  A  company 
of  thcfe  lewd  people  Ined  togetiier,  at  a  houfe  hard  by  the 
p^ice  of  our  meeting.  I  went  to  the  houfe,  and  told  thern 
of  their  wickednefs.  The  man  of  the  houfe  afked,  '  Why  ? 
'  did  I  make  fo  flrange  of  (hat  ?'    Another  of  them  faid,  '  It 

•  was  to  fl(nnhle  me.*  I  told  them,  '  Their  wickednefs 
■  fliould  not  flumble  me  ;  for  1  was  above  it.'  I  was  mov- 
f'd  of  the  Lord  to  tell  them,  '  The  plagues  and  judgments 
-  o!  God  i^rould  (overtake  them,  and  come  upon  them.'    Af- 


,668]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  93 

terwai'ds  they  went  up  and  down  the  country,  till  at  laft 
they  were  call  into  Winchefter  gaol;  where  the  man  that 
had  lain  with  the  woman  ftabbed  the  gaoler,  but  not  mor- 
tally. After  they  were  let  out  of  gaol,  this  fellow  that  ftab- 
bed the  gaoler  hanged  himfelf.  The  woman  alfo  had  like 
to  have  cut  a  child's  throat,  as  we  were  informed.  Thefe 
people  had  formerly  lived  about  London ;  and,  when  the 
city  was,  fired,  they  prophefied,  '  That  all  the  reft  of  Lon- 
*  don  fhould  be  burnt  within  fourteen  days,'  and  hailed  out 
of  town.  Though  they  were  Ranters,  great  oppofers  of 
friends,  and  difturbers  of  our  meetings,  yet  in  the  country, 
where  they  came,  fome  would  be  apt  to  fay  they  were 
Quakers.  Wherefore  I  was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  write  a 
paper,  to  be  difperfed  amongft  the  magiftrates  and  people 
of  Hampfliire,  to  clear  friends  and  truth  of  them  and  their 
wicked  a6lions. 

After  the  men's  monthly  meetings  in  thofe  parts  were 
fettled,  and  the  Lord's  blelfed  power  was  over  all,  we  went 
to  a  town,  where  we  had  a  meeting  with  friends.  From 
thence  we  came  to  Farnham,  where  we  met  many  friends, 
it  being  the  market-day.  "We  had  precious  meetings  up 
and  down  that  country.  Friends  in  thofe  parts  had  for- 
merly been  plundered,  and  their  goods  much  fpoiled,  on 
account  of  tithes,  and  for  going  to  meetings  ;  but  the  Lord's 
power  at  this  time  preferved  both  them  and  us  from  falling 
into  the  perfccutors  hands. 

We  had  a  general  men's  meeting  at  a  friend's  houfe  in 
Surry ;  who  had  been  plundered  fo  extremely,  that  he  had 
fcarce  a  cow,  horfe,  or  fwine  left.  The  conftables  threaten- 
ed to  come  and  break  up  our  meeting;  but  the  Lord  re- 
ftrained  them.  At  this  meeting  the  men's  monthly  meet- 
ings were  fettled  in  the  authority  of  the  heavenly  power. 
After  we  had  vilited  friends  in  that  county,  and  had  many 
large  and  precious  meetings,  we  pafled  to  a  friend's  houfe 
in  SufTex,  where  the  general  meeting  for  the  men  friends  of 
that  county  was  appointed  to  be  held ;  and  thither  came  fe- 
veral  from  London  to  vifit  us.  We  had  a  blcifed  meeting; 
and  the  men's  monthly  meetings  for  that  county  were  then 
fettled  in  the  Lord's  eternal  power,  the  gofpel  of  falvation  ; 
that  all  in  it  might  keep  to  the  order  of  the  gofpel.  There 
were  at  that  time  great  threatenings  of  difturbance ;  but  the 
meeting  was  quiet.  W'e  had  fcveral  large  meetings  in  that 
county  ;  though  friends  were  in  great  fuIFerings  there,  and 
jnany  in  prifun.     I  was  fent  for  tu  vifit  a  friend  that  was. 


9+  GEORGETOX's    JOURNAL.  [166^ 

fick,  and  went  to  fee  friends  that  were  prifoners.  There 
was  danger  of  my  being  apprehended ;  but  I  went  in  the 
faith  of  God's  power,  and  thereby  the  Lord  preferved  me 
in  fafety. 

We  paffed  into  Kent ;  where,  after  we  had  been  at  feve- 
ral  meetings,  we  had  a  general  one  for  the  men  friends  of 
that  county.  There  alfo  the  men's  monthly  meetings  for 
that  county  were  fettled  in  the  power  of  God,  and  efla- 
blifhcd  in  the  order  of  the  gofpel,  for  all  the  heirs  of  it  to 
enter  into  their  fcrvices  and  care  in  the  church  for  the  glory 
of  God.  Friends  rejoiced  in  the  order  of  the  gofpel,  and 
were  glad  of  the  fettlement  thereof. 

After  this  I  vifited  the  meetings  in  Kent;  and  when  I 
had  cleared  myfelf  of  the  Lord's  fervice  in  that  county,  I 
came  to  London.  Thus  were  the  men's  monthly  meetings 
I'ettled  through  the  nation  ;  for  I  had  been  in  Berkfhire  be- 
fore, where  m.ofl  of  the  ancient  friends  of  that  county  were 
in  prifon  ;  and  when  I  had  informed  them  of  the  fervice  of 
thele  monthly  meetings,  they  were  fettled  amongfl  them  al- 
fo. The  quarterly  meetings  were  generally  fettled  before. 
I  wrote  alfo  into  Leland,  Scotland,  Holland,  Barbadoes, 
and  feveral  parts  of  America,  advifing  friends  to  fettle  their 
men's  monthly  meetings  in  thofe  countries.  For  they  had 
I  heir  general  quarterly  meetings  before  ;  but  now  that  truth 
was  increafed  amongfl  them,  they  fhould  fettle  monthly 
meetings  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God  which  firfl;  con- 
vinced them.  Since  thefe  meetings  have  been  fettled,  ma- 
ny mouths  have  been  opened  in  thankfgivings  and  praife, 
and  many  have  blelfed  the  Lord,  that  he  fentme  forth  in  this 
fervice  ;  yea,  with  tears  have  many  praifed  him.  For  all 
coming  to  have  a  concern  and  care  for  God's  honour  and 
glory,  that  his  name  be  not  blafphemed,  which  they  pro- 
fefs  ;  and  to  fee  that  all  who  profcfs  the  truth,  walk  in  the 
truth,  in  righteoufnefs  and  holinefs,  which  becomes  the 
houfe  of  God,  and  that  all  order  their  converfation  aright, 
that  they  may  fee  the  falvation  of  God ;  all  having  this  care 
upon  them  for  God's  glory,  and  being  exercifed  in  his  holy 
power  and  Spirit,  in  the  order  of  the  heavenly  life  and  gof- 
pel of  jefus,  they  may  all  fee  and  know,  pofTcfs  and  partake 
of  the  government  of  Chrifl,  of  the  incrcafe  of  which  there 
is  to  be  no  end.  Thus  the  Lord's  everlafting  renown  and 
prail'e  is  fet  up  in  every  one's  heart  that  is  faithful;  fo  that 
we  can  fay  the  gofpel  order  eflabliflied  amongfl  us  is  not  of 
in.m,  nor  by   man,  but  of  and   by   Jcfus    Chrifl,    in  and 


i668]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  9^ 

through  the  Holy  Ghoft.  This  order  of  the  gofpel,  which 
is  from  Chrifl  the  heavenly  man,  is  above  all  the  orders  of 
men  in  the  fall,  whether  Jews,  Gentiles,  or  apoflatized 
Chriftians,  and  will  remain  when  they  are  gone.  For  the 
power  of  God,  which  is  the  everlafting  gofpel,  was  before 
the  devil  was,  and  will  be  and  remain  for  ever.  And  as  the 
everlafting  gofpel  was  preached  in  the  apoftles  days  to  all 
nations,  that  all  might  come  into  the  order  thereof,  through 
the  divine  power,  which  brings  life  and  immortality  to  light, 
that  they  who  were  heirs  of  it,  might  inherit  the  power  and 
authority  of  it ;  fo  now,  fmce  all  nations  have  drunk  the 
whore's  cup,  and  all  the  world  hath  worfhipped  the  beafl 
(but  they,  whofe  names  are  written  in  the  book  of  life  from 
the  foundation  of  the  world,  who  have  worfhipped  God  in 
fpirit  and  truth,  as  Chrift  commanded)  the  everlafting  gof- 
pel is  to  be  and  is  preached  again,  as  John  the  divine  fore- 
law  it  fhould,  to  all  nations,  kindreds,  tongues,  and  people. 
This  everlafting  gofpel  torments  the  whore,  and  makes  her 
and  the  beaft  to  rage,  even  the  beaft  that  hath  power  over 
the  tongues,  which  are  called  the  original,  to  order  them, 
by  which  they  make  divines,  as  they  call  them.  But  all 
that  receive  the  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  which  brings 
life  and  immortality  to  light,  come  to  fee  over  the  beaft, 
devil,  whore,  and  falfe  prophet,  that  darkened  them  and 
all  their  worfhips  and  orders,  and  come  to  be  heirs  of  the 
gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  which  was  before,  the  beaft, 
whore,  faife  prophet,  and  devil  were,  and  will  be  when 
they  are  all  gone  and  caft  into  the  lake  of  fire.  And  they 
that  are  heirs  of  this  power  and  of  this  gofpel  inherit  the 
power  which  is  the  authority  of  this  order,  and  of  our  meet- 
ings. Thefe  come  to  poffefs  the  joyful  order  of  the  joyful 
gofpel,  the  comfortable  order  of  the  comfortable  gofpel,  the 
glorious  order  of  the  glorious  gofpel,  and  the  everlafting  or- 
der of  the  everlafting  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  which  will 
laft  for  ever,  and  will  outlaft  all  the  orders  of  the  devil, 
and  that  which  is  of  men  or  by  men.  Thefe  fhall  fee  the 
government  of  Chrift,  who  hath  all  power  in  heaven  and 
earth  given  to  him  ;  and  of  the  increafe  of  his  gloriou.'^, 
righteous,  holy,  juft  government  there  is  no  end  ;  but  hi.s 
government  and  his  order  will  remain  :  for  he  who  is  the  au- 
thor of  it  is  the  firft  and  the  laft,  the  beginning  and  cndin<^, 
the  foundation  of  God,  which  over  all  ftands  fure,  Chi  i It 
Jefus,  the  Amen. 

Being  returned  to  London,   1   ftaid  fbme  time,  viuLing, 


96  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1668 

friends  meetings  in  and  about  the  city.  While  1  was  in 
London,  I  went  one  day  to  vifit  fquire  Marfh,  who  had 
fhewcd  much  kindnefs  both  to  me  and  friends.  I  happen- 
ed to  go  when  he  was  at  dinner.  He  no  fooner  heard  of 
my  name,  but  he  Tent  for  me  up,  and  would  have  had  me 
lit  down  with  him  to  dinner;  but  I  had  not  freedom  to  do 
To.  Several  great  perfons  were  at  dinner  with  him ;  and  he 
(aid  to  one  of  them  who  was  a  great  Papift,  '  Here  is  a 
'  Quaker,  which  you  have  not  feen  before.'  The  Papift 
afkcd  me,  '  Whether  I  did  own  the  chriftening  of  children?' 
1  told  him,  '  There  was  no  fcripture  for  any  iuch  pra6lice.' 
'  \V'hat!'  faid   he.  '  not  for  chriftening  children !'      I  faid, 

*  \ay.'  1  told  him,  '  The  one  baptifm  by  the  one  fpirit 
'  into  one  body  we  owned ;  but  to  throw  a  little  water  on 
'  a  child's  face,  and  fay,  that  was  baptizing  and  chriftening 

*  it.  there  was  no  fcripture  for  that.'  He  alked  me,  '  Whe- 
'  thcr  I  did  own  the  Catholic  faith  ?'  I  faid,  '  Yes ;'  but 
added,  '  That  neither  the  pope  nor  the  papifts  were  in  the 
'  Catholic  faith ;  for  the  true  faith  works  by  love,  and  puri- 

•  (ies  the  heart ;  and  if  they  were   in   that  faith  that  gives 

♦  viftory,  by  which  they  might  have  accefs  to  God,  they 

*  would  not  (ell  the  people  of  a  purgatory  after  they  were 
'  dead.  So  I  undertook  to  prove,  **  That  neither  pope  nor 
"  papifls,  that  held  a  purgatory  hereafter,  were  in  the  true 
"faith."  For  the  true,  precious,  divine  faith,  which  Chrift 
'  IS  the  author  of,  gives  victory  over  the  devil  and  fin,  that 

•  {( paratcd  man  and  woman  from  God.  And  if  they  (the 
'  P.ipills)  were  in  tlie  true  faith,  they  would  never  ufe  racks, 
'  priions,  and  fines  to  perfecute  and  force  others  to  their 

•  religion,  that  were  not  of  their  faith.     This  was  not  the 

*  practice  of  the  apoflles  and  primitive  Chriftians,  who  wit- 
'  nclfcd  and  enjoyed  the  true  faith  of  Chrift;  but  it  was 
I  the  practice  of  the  faithlefs  Jews  and  heathens  fo  to  do. 
'  iiut;  (aid  I,  '  feeing  thou  art  a  great  leading  man  among 

•  the  Papifts,  and  iiaft  been  taught  and  bred  up  under  the 
'  pope,  and  feeing  thou  fayeft,  '•  There  is  no  falvation  but 
'•  m  your  church;"  I  defire  to  know  of  thee,  "  What  it  is 
"  that  doth  bring  falvation  in  your  church  ?"  He  anfwer- 
ed,  "  A  good  life."  '  And  nothing  elfe  ?'  faid  L  '  Yes  ' 
faid  lie,  '  good  works!'  '  Is  this  it  that  brings  llilvation 
'  in  your  church,  a  good  life  and  good  works  ?  Is  this  your 
'  dodrme  an.!  principle  ?'  faid  I.  '  Yes,'  faid  he.  '  Then, 
'  aid  I,  neither  thou,  nor  the  pope,  nor  any  of  the  Papifts 
•know  what  It  is   that   brings  falvation.'     He   aflced  me. 


1668]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  97, 

*  What  brought  falvation  in  our   church  ?'     I    told  him, 

*  That  which  brought  falvation  to  the  church  in  the  apof- 

*  ties  days,  the  fan:e  brought  falvation  to  us,  and  not  ano- 
*ther;  namely,  "  The  grace  of  God,  which/'  the  fcripture 

*  fays,   "  brings   falvation,  and  hath  appeared  to  all  men," 

*  which  taught  the  faints  then,  and  teaches  us  now.     This 

*  grace,  which  brings  falvation,  teaches,  "  To  deny  ungod- 
"  linefs  and  worldly  lulls,  and  to  live  godly,  righteoufiy, 
*'  and  foberly."     So  it  is  not  the  good  works,  nor  the  good 

*  life  that  brings  falvation,  but  the  grace,  '  What !'  faid 
'  the  Papifl,  '  doth  this  grace,  that  brings  falvation,  appear 
'  unto  all  men  ?'  '  Yes,'  faid  I.     '  Then,'  faid  he,   '  I  deny 

*  that.'  I  replied,  '  All  that  deny  that  are  feft-niakers,  and 
'  are  not  in  the  univerfal  faith,  grace,  and  truth,  which  the 
'  apoftles  were  in.'  Then  he  fpoke  to  me  about  the  mo- 
'  ther-church.  I  told  him,  The  feveral  lefts  in  Chriften- 
'  dom  had  accufed  us,  and  faid,  "  We  forfook  our  mother- 
*'  church."     The  Papifts  charged   us  with   forfaking   their 

*  church,  faying,   "   Rome    was   the   only  mother-church." 

*  The  Epifcopalians  taxed  us  with  forfaking  the  old  Protef- 

*  tant  religion,  alleging,  "  Theirs  was  the  reformed  mo- 
*'  ther-church."  The  Prefbyterians  and  Independents 
'  blamed  us  for  leaving  them,  each  of  them  pretending 
*'  Theirs  was  the  right-reformed  church."     But   I   faid,  if 

*  we  could  own  any  outward  place  to  be  the  mother-church, 

*  we   Ihould   own    Jerufalem,    where   the   gofpel    was   firli 

*  preached  by  Chrifl  himfelf  and  the  apoftles,  where  Chrift 

*  fuffered,  where  the  great  converfion  to  Chriftianity  by  Pe- 

*  ter  was,  where  were  the  types,  figures,  and  fliadows,  which 
'  Chrift  ended,  and  where  Chrift  commanded  his  "  difci- 
"  pies  to  wait  until  they  were  endued  with  power  from 
"  on  high."     If  any  outward  place  deferved  to  be  called  the 

*  mother,  that  was  the  place  where  the  firft  great  converfion 

*  to  Chriftianity  was.     But  the  apoftle  faith,-  Gal.  iv.   25, 

*  26.  "  Jerufalem,  which  now  is  in  bondage  with  her  chil- 
*'  dren  ;  but  Jerufalem,  which  is  above,  is  free,  which  is 
*'  the  mother  of  us  all.  For  it  is  written.  Rejoice,  thou 
"  barren,  that  beareft  not ;  break  forth  and  cry,  thou  that 
"  travaileft  not;  for  the  defolate  hath  many  more  children 
"  than  Ihe   that  hath   an  huft^and,"  ver.   27.     The  apoftle 

*  doth  not  fay,  outward  Jerufalem  was  the  mother,  though 

*  the  firft  and  great  converfion  to  Chriftianity  was  there  ;  and 

*  there  is  lefs  reafon  for  the  title  [mother]  to  be  given  to 
'  Rome,  or  to  any  other  outward  place  or  city,  by  the  chil- 

VOL.    II.  N 


pg  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1668 

'  drcn  of  Jerufalem,  that  is  above  and  free  :  neither  are  they 

*  Jcrufakm's  children  that  is  above  and  free,  who  give  the 

*  title  of  mother  either  to  outward  Jerufalem,  to  Rome,  or 
'  to  any  other  place  or  fed  of  people.     And  though  this 

*  title  [mother]  hath  been  given  to  places  and  fefts  by  the 

*  degenerate  Chnflians,  yet  we  fay  ftill,  as  the  apoflle  faid 

*  of  old,   "  Jerufalem  that  is  above,  is  the  mother  of  us  all." 

*  We  can  own  no  other,  neither  outward  Jerufalem,  nor 

*  Rome,  nor  any  feft  of  people  for  our  mother,  but  Jerufa- 

*  lem  which  is  aliove  ;  which  is  free,  the  mother  of  all  that 

*  are  born  again,  become  true  believers  in  the  light,  and  are 

*  grafted  into  Chrifl,  the  heavenly  vine.      For  all  who   are 

*  born  again  of  the   immortal  feed,  by  the  word  of  God 

*  which  lives  and  abides  for  ever,  feed  upon  the  milk  of  the 

*  word,  the  bread  of  life,    grow  by  it  in  life;    and   cannot 

*  acknowledge  any  other  to  be  their  mother,  but  Jerufalem 
'  which  is  above.'     '  Oh  !'  faid  fquire  Marfh  to  the  Papift, 

*  You  do  not  know  this  man.     If  he  would  but  come  to 

*  church  now  and  then,  he  would  be  a  brave  man.' 

After  fome  other  difcourfe,  I  went  afide  with  juftice 
Marfh  to  another  room,  to  fpeak  with  him  concerning 
friends;  for  he  was  ajullice  of  peace  for  Middlefex,  and  be- 
ing a  courtier,  the  other  juftices  put  much  of  the  manage- 
ment of  affairs   upon   him.     He   told   me,  '  He  was  in  a 

*  flrait  how  to  a6i  between  us  and  fome   other  Diffenters. 

*  For,'  laid  he,  '  You  cannot  fwear,  and  the  Independents, 

*  Baptills,  and  Fifth-monarchy-people  fay  alfo,  They  can- 
'  not  fwear ;  therefore,'  faid  he,  '  how  fhall  I  diftinguifh 
'  betwixt  you  and  them,  feeing  they  and  you  all  fay.   It  is 

*  for  confciencc-fake  that  you  cannot  fwear  ?'  *ll  anfvvered, 

*  I   will  Ihew  thee  how   to  diflinguifli,     The^;  or  moil  of 

*  them,  thou  fpeakefl  of,  can  and  do  fwear  in  fome  cafes, 

*  but  we  cannot  fwear  in  any  cafe.  If  a  man'fhould  fleal 
«  their  cows  and  horfes,  and  thou  fhouldeft  aflc  them   whe- 

*  ther  they  would  fwear  they  were  theirs  ?  many  of  them 
'  would  readily  do  it ;  but  if' thou  try  our  friends,  they  can- 

*  not  fwear  for  their  own  goods.     Therefore,  when  thou  put- 

*  teft  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  any  of  them,  alk  them, 
"  W^hcther  they  cm  fwear  in  any  other  cafe,  as  for  their  cow 
"  or  horic?"   Which,  if  they  be  really  of  us,   they  cannot 

*  do,  though  they  can  bear  witnefs  to  the  truth.'  I  gave 
him  a  relation  of  a  trial  in  Berkfhire,  which  was  thus  :   '    A 

*  thief  Hole  tu'o  heafts  from  a  friend  of  ours.  The  thief  was 
'  taken  and  caff  into  pnfon,  and  the  friend  appeared  a^ainft 


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*  him  at  the  affizes.     But  fomebody  having  informed   the 

*  judge,  that  the  profecutor  was   a  Quaker  and  could  not 

*  fvvear,  the  judge,  before  he  heard  the  friend,  faid,  "  Is  he 
"  a  Quaker  ?  And  will  he  not  fwear  ?  Then  tender  him  the 
*'  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy."     So  he  caft  the  friend 

*  into  prifon,    and  premunired  him,  and  fet  the  thief  at  li- 

*  berty.*  Juftice  Marfti  faid,  '  That  judge  was  a  wicked 
'  man.     *  But,'  faid  I,   '  If  we  could  fwear  in  any  cafe,  we 

*  would  take  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  king,  who  is  to  pre- 

*  ferve  the  laws  that  are  to  iupport  every  man  in  his  eftate. 

*  Whereas  others,  that  can  fwear  in  fome  cafes,  to  preferve 

*  a  part  of  their  eftates  if  they  be  robbed,  will  not  take  this 

*  oath  to  the  king,  who  is  to  preferve  them  in  their  whole 
'  eflates   and  bodies  alfo.      So  that  thou   mayeft   eafily  dif- 

*  tinguilh  and  put  a  difference  betwixt  us  and  thofe  people.' 
Juftice  Marfli  was  afterwards  very  ferviceable  to  friends  in 
this  and  other  cafes  ;  for  he  kept  feveral,  both  friends  and 
others,  from  being  premunired :  and  when  friends  were 
brought  before  him,  in  time  of  perfecution,  he  fet  many  of 
them  at  liberty.  When  he  could  not  avoid  fending  to  pri- 
fon, he  fent  fome  for  a  few  hours,  or  a  night.  At  length 
he  went  to  the  king,  and  told  him,  *  He  had  fent  fome  of 
'  us  to  prifon  contrary  to  his  confcience,  and  he  could  not 
'  do  fo  any  more.'  Therefore  he  removed  his  family  from 
Limehoufe,  where  he  lived,  and  took  lodgings  near  James's 
Park.  He  told  the  king,  '  If  he  would  be  pleafed  to  give 
'  liberty  of  confcience,  that  would  quiet  and  fettle  all  ;  for 
'  then  none  could  have  any  pretence  to  be  uneafy.'  And 
indeed  he  was  a  very  ferviceable  man  to  truth  and  friends 
in  his  day. 

We  had  great  fervice  at  London  this  year  ;  the  Lord's 
truth  came  over  all.  Many  who  had  gone  out  came  in 
again  this  year,  confeffing  and  condemning  their  outgoings. 

After  I  had  ftaid  fome  time  in  London,  I  vifited  friends 
in  Surry,  Suflfex,  and  other  places  that  way,  and  then  tra- 
velled northward,  having  Leonard  Fell  with  me.  We  vi- 
fited friends  till  we  came  to  Warwick,  where  many  were  in 
prifon.  We  had  a  meeting  in  the  town.  I  paflTed  from 
thence  to  Birmingham  and  Badgely.  At  Badgely  I  had  a 
large  meeting.  After  which  I  paffed  to  XoLtingham,  where 
on  the  firft-clay  we  had  a  precious  meeting,  but  not  without 
danger  of  being  apprehended;  the  conllables  having  threat- 
ened friends. 

I  paffed  from  thence,  vifiting  friends,  till  I  came  to  Bal- 

M    2 


100  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  066^ 

by,  and  fo  to  York  quarterly-meeting.  A  bleffed  meeting 
^^'c  had.  Friends  had  in  Yorkfhire  kven  monthly  meetings 
before,  and  they  were  To  fenfible  of  the  fcrvice  of  them,  that 
they  dcfired  to  have  feven  more  added;  for  truth  was  much 
Ipread  in  that  county.  Accordmgly  in  that  quarterly  meet- 
ing they  were  fettled :  fo  now  they  have  fourteen  manthly 
mt^etings. 

It  bc^ing  the  affize-time  at  York,  I  met  with  juflice  Ho- 
tham,  a  well-wiflicr  to  friends,  who  had  been  tender  and 
very  kind  to  me  from  the  firft. 

After  I  had  finilhed  my  fcrvice  in  York,  I  paffed  into  the 
country.  As  I  went,  a  great  burden  fell  upon  me  ;  but  I 
did  not  prefently  know  the  reafon  of  it.  1  came  to  a 
meeting  on  firll-day  at  Richard  S'lipton's,  which  was  very 
large.  There  being  a  meeting  the  fame  day  at  another 
place,  and  the  priefl  of  that  place,  being  mifmformed  that  I 
was  to  be  there,  got  a  warrant,  and  made  great  dillurbance 
at  that  meeting  ;  of  which  Ifaac  Lindley  gave  rae  an  account 
by  the  following  letter: 

'  G.  F. 

WHEN  thou  went'fl  from  York,  the  firll-day  after 
thou  waft  at  Richard  Shipton's,  that  day  I  had  ap- 
'  pointed  a  meeting  ten  miles  from  York,  where  there  had 
'  not  been  a  meeting  before.  But  the  prieft  and  the  conftable 
'  got  a  warrant  on  the  feventh-day,  and  put  thy  name  only 
'  in  the  warrant ;  for  they  had  heard  thou  waft  to  be  there. 
They  came  with  weapons  and  ftaves,  and  cried,  "  Where  is 
Mr.  Vox  ?"  over  and  over;  many  friends  being  there,  they 
'  concluded  thou  waft  among  them.  But  thofe  raveners, 
'  being  difappointcd,  plucked  me  down,  abufed  me,  beat 
'  lonie  friends,  and  then  took  me  before  amagiftrate;  but  he 
'  let  me  at  liberty. 

'  Ifaac  Lindley.* 

I  then  vifited  friends  at  Whitby  and  Scarborough.  When. 
I  was  at  Scarborough,  the  governor,  hearing  I  was  come, 
fcnt  to  invite  me  to  his  houfe,  faying,  '  Surely,  I  would 
'  not  be  fo  unkind,  as  not  to  come  and  fee  him  and  his  wife/ 
After  the  meeting  I  went  to  viiit  him,  and  he  received  me 
vi  rv  courteoufly  and  lovingly. 

II  living  vifitoi  moft  of  the  meetings  in  Yorkftiire,  the 
\\  oulvl.s,  and  lloldcrnefs,  I  came  to  Henry  Jackfon's,  where 


1669]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  io> 

I  had  a  great  meeting.  From  thence  to  Thornas  Taylor's, 
and  to  John  Moor's  at  Eldreth,  where  we  had  a  veiy  large 
meeting :  the  Lord's  power  and  prefence  was  eminently 
amon^fl  us.  Not  far  from  this  place  lay  colonel  Kirby, 
lame  of  the  gout,  who  had  threatened,  *  If  ever  I  came  near, 

*  he  would  fend  me  to  prifon  again ;  and  had  bid  forty 
^  pounds  to  any  man  that  could  take  me,'  as  I  was  credibly 
informed. 

After  this  I  came  into  Staffbrdfhire  and  Chcfhire,  where 
we  had  many  large  and  precious  meetings.  I  had  a  very- 
large  one  at  William  Barns's,  about  two  miles  from  War- 
rington ;  and  though  colonel  Kirby  was  now  got  abroad 
again,  as  violent  in  breaking  up  meetings  as  before,  and  was 
then  at  Warrington,  the  Lord  did  not  fuffer  him  to  come 
to  this  meeting :  fo  we  were  preferved  out  of  his  hands. 

Now  was  I  moved  of  the  Lord  to  go  over  into  Ireland, 
to  vifit  the  feed  of  God  in  that  nation.  There  went  with 
me  Robert  Lodge,  James  Lancafler,  Thomas  Briggs,  and 
John  Stubbs.  We  waited  near  Liverpool  for  (hipping  and 
wind.  After  we  had  waited  fome  days,  we  fent  James  Lan- 
cafler, who  took  paflfage,  and  brought  word  the  fliip  was 
ready,  and  would  take  us  in  at  Black-rock.  We  went  thi- 
ther on  foot.  It  being  pretty  fair,  and  the  weather  very 
hot,  I  was  much  fpent  with  walking.  When  we  arrived 
the  fhip  was  not  there,  fo  we  were  obliged  to  go  to  the  town 
and  take  (hipping.  When  we  were  got  on  board,  I  faid  to 
the  reft  of  the  company,   '  Come,  ye  will  triumph  in  the 

*  Lord ;  for  we  ftiaii  have  fair  wind  and  weather.'  There 
were  many  paffengers  in  the  fhip  fick,  but  not  one  of  our 
company.  The  mafter  and  many  of  the  paffengers  were 
very  loving ;  and  being  at  fea  on  a  firft-day,  I  was  moved 
to  declare  truth  among  them :  whereupon  the  mafter  faid  to 
the  paffengers,  '  Come,  here  are  things  that  you  never  heard 
'  in  your  lives.'  When  we  came  before  Dublin,  we  tool<, 
boat,  and  went  afhore;  and  the  earth  and  air  fmelt,  me- 
thought,  with  the  corruption  of  the  nation,  fo  that  it  yielded 
another  fmell  to  me  than  England  did ;  which  I  imputed 
to  the  popifti  malfacres  that  had  been  committed,  and  the 
blood  that  had  been  fpilt  in  it,  from  which  a  fouhiefs  a(- 
cended.  We  paffed  through  among  the  oflicers  of  the  cuf- 
toms  four  times,  yet  they  did  not  fearch  us ;  fur  they  per-, 
ceived  what  we  were.  Some  of  them  were  fo  envious,  they 
did  not  care  to  look  at  us.  We  did  not  prefently  find 
fncnds;  but  went  to  an  ini),  and  fent  to  inquire  for  fome> 


I02  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1669 

who  were  exceeding  glad  of  our  coming,  and  received  us 
with  great  joy.  We  Raid  there  the  weekly  meeting,  which 
was  a  large  one,  and  the  power  and  life  of  God  appeared 
greatly  in  it.  Afterwards  we  paifed  to  a  province-meetmg, 
which  lafled  two  days,  there  being  both  a  men's  meeting 
about  the  poor,  and  another  more  general,  in  which  a  migh- 
ty power  of  the  Lord  appeared.  Truth  was  livingly  de- 
clared, and  friends  were  much  refrefhed  therein. 

Palfing  from  thence  about  twenty-four  miles,  we  came  to 
another  place,  where  we  had  a  very  good  refrefhing  meet- 
ing ;  after  which  fome  Papifts  were  angry,  and  raged  very 
much.  When  I  heard  of  it,  I  fent  for  one  of  them,  a 
fchoolmaftcr;  but  he  would  not  come.  Whereupon  I 
fent  a  challenge  to  him,  with  all  the  fnars,  monks,  priefts, 
and  jefuits,  to  come  forth,  and  '  try  their  God  and  their 
'  Chrift,  which  they  made  of  bread  and  wine ;'  but  no  an- 
fwer  could  I  get  from  them.  Wherefore  I  told  them, 
'  They  were  worfe  than  the  prieils  of  Baal ;  for  Baal's  priefts 
'•  tried  their  wooden  god,  but  thefe  durfl  not  try  their  god 
'•  of  bread  and  wine ;  and  Baal's  priefts  and  people  did  not 

•  eat  their  god,  as  thefe  did,  and  then  make  another.' 

We  went  on  to  New-garden,  where  was  a  great  meeting. 
From  thence  we  travelled  to  Bandon-bridge  and  the 
Land's-cnd,  having  many  meetings  as  we  went;  in  which 
the  mighty  power  of  the  Lord  was  manifefted,  friends  were 
well  refrefhed,  and  many  people  were  aff"e6led  with  the 
truth.  At  Bandon,  the  mayor's  wife,  being  convinced,  de- 
fired  her  hufband  to  come  to  the  meeting;  but  he  bid  her 
for  her  life  ftie  ftiould  not  make  known  that  I  was  at  a 
meeting  there. 

He  that  was  then  mayor  of  Cork,  being  very  envious 
againft  truth  and  friends,  had  many  friends  in  prifon ;  and 
knowing  I  was  in  the  country,  he  fent  four  warrants  to 
take  me;  therefore  friends  were  defirous  that  I  might  not 
ride  through  Cork.  But  being  at  Bandon,  there  appeared 
to  me  in  a  vifion,    '  A  very  ugly-vifaged  man,  of  a  black 

•  and  dark  look.      My  fpirit  ft  ruck  at  him  in  the  power  of 

•  (^.od,  and  it  feemed  to  me  that  I  rode  over  him  with  my 
■  horfe,  and  my  horfe  fet  his  foot  on  the  fide  of  his  face/ 
When  I  came  down  in  the  morning,  I  told  a  friend,  the 
c()u)inand  of  the  Lord  was  to  me  to  ride  through  Cork;  but 
Ind  him  lell  no  man.  So  we  took  horfe,  many  friends  be- 
ing with  me.  When  we  came  near  the  town,  friends  would 
have  fliewcd  me  a  way  on  the  backfide  of  it ;   but  I  told 


16693  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  103 

them,  my  way  was  through  the  ftreets.  Taking  Paul  Mor. 
rice  to  guide  me  through  the  town,  I  rode  on ;  and  as  we 
rode  through  the  market-place,  and  by  the  mayor's  door, 
he,  feeing  me,  faid,  '  There  goes  George  Fox ;'  but  he  had 
not  power  to  ftop  me.  When  we  had  paffed  through  the 
centinels,  and  were  come  over  the  bridge,  we  went  to  a 
friend's  houfe,  and  ahghted.  There  the  friends  told  me, 
what  a  rage  was  in  the  town,  and  how  many  warrants  were 
granted  to  take  me.  While  I  was  fitting  there  with  friends, 
I  felt  the  evil  fpirit  at  work  in  the  town,  ftirring  up  mif- 
chief  againfl  me ;  and  I  felt  the  power  of  the  Lord  ftrike  at 
that  evil  fpirit.  By-and-by  fome  other  friends  coming  in, 
told  me,   '  It  was  over  the  town,  and  amongft  the  magif- 

*  trates,  that  I  was  in  the  town.'     I  faid,  '  Let  the  devil  do 

*  his  worft.'  After  awhile  that  friends  were  refrefhed  one 
in  another,  and  we  travellers  had  refrefhed  ourfelves,  I  call- 
ed for  my  horfe,  and  having  a  friend  to  guide  me,  we  went 
on  our  way.  But  great  was  the  rage  that  the  mayor  and 
others  of  Cork  were  in,  that  they  had  miffed  me,  and  great 
pains  they  afterwards  took  to  have  taken  me,  having  their 
Icouts  abroad  upon  the  roads,  as  I  underftood,  to  obfei-ve 
which  way  I  went.  Afterwards,  fcarce  a  public  meeting 
I  came  to,  but  fpies  came  to  watch  if  I  was  there.  And 
the  envious  magiftrates  and  priefts  fent  informations  one  to 
another  concerning  me,  defcribing  me  by  my  hair,  hat, 
cloaths,  and  horfe ;  fo  that  when  I  was  near  an  hundred 
miles  from  Cork  they  had  an  account  concerning  me,  and 
defcription  of  me,  before  I  came  amongft  them.  One  very 
envious  magiftrate,  who  was  both  a  prieft  and  a  juiiice,  got 
a  warrant  Irom  the  judge  of  affize  to  apprehend  me ;  the 
warrant  was  to  go  over  all  his  circuit,  which  reached  near 
an  hundred  miles.  Yet  the  Lord  difappointed  all  their 
councils,  defeated  all  their  defigns  againll  me,  and  by  his 
good  hand  of  Providence  preierved  me  out  of  all  their 
fnares,  and  gave  us  many  fweet  and  blefled  opportunities; 
to  vifit  friends,  and  fpread  truth  through  that  nation.  For 
meetmgs  were  very  large,  friends  coming  to  them  far  and 
near;  and  other  people  flocking  in.  The  powerful  pre- 
fence  of  the  Lord  was  precioufly  felt  with  and  amongft  us ; 
v*rhereby  many  of  the  world  were  reached,  convinced,  ga- 
thered to  the  truth,  and  the  Lord's  flock  was  incrcafcd ;  and 
friends  were  greatly  refreftjed  and  comforted  in  feeling  the 
love  of  God.  Oh  !  the  brokennefs  that  was  amongft  them 
in  the  flownigs  of  life !     So  that,  in   the  power  and  Spirit 


10+  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1669 

of  the  Lord,  many  together  broke  out  into  finging,  even 
with  audible  voices,  making  melody  in  their  hearts. 

At  which  time  I  was  moved  to  declare  to  friends  there  in 
the  mini  dry,  as  followeth  : 

*  QOUND,  found  abroad,   you  faithful  fervants  of  the 

*  O    Lord,  vvitnelTes   in  his   name,  faithful   fervants,  pro- 

*  phets  of  the  Higheft.  and  angels  of  the  Lord  !     Sound  ye 

*  all  abroad  in  the  world,  to  the  awakening  and  railing  of 
'  the  dead,  that   they   may  be  awakened  and  raifed  up  out 

*  of  the  grave,  to  hear  the  voice  that  is  living.  For  the 
'  dead  have  long  heard  the  dead,  the  blind  have  long  wan- 

*  dcred  among  the  blind,  and  the  deaf  amongft  the  deaf. 
'  Therefore  found,  ye  fervants,  prophets,  and  angels  of  the 
'  Lord,  ye  trumpets  of  the  Lord,  that  you  may  awaken  the 
'  dead,  awaken  them  that  are  afleep  in  their  graves  of  fin, 
'  death,  and  hell,  fea  and  earth,  and  who  lie  in  the  tombs. 
'  Sound  abroad,  ye  trumpets,  and  raife  up  the  dead,  that 
'  they  may  hear  the  voice  of  the  Son  of  God,  the  voice  of 
'  the  Second  Adam  that  never  fell,  the  voice  of  the  Light, 
'  the  voice  of  the  Life,  the  voice  of  the  Power,  the  voice  of 
'  the  Truth,  the  voice  of  the   Righteous,  and  the  voice  of 

*  the  Jull.     Sound  ye  the   trumpets,  the  melodious  found 

*  abroad,  that  all  the  deaf  ears  may  be  opened  to  hear  the 

*  pleafant  found  of  the  trumpet  to  judgment  and  life,  to  con- 
'  dem nation  and  light.  Sound  your  trumpets  all  abroad, 
'  you  angels  of  the  Lord,  fons  and  daughters,  prophets  of 
'  the  Iligheft,  that  all  that  are  dead  and  afleep  in  the  graves, 
'  who  have  been  long  dreaming  and  flumbering,  may  be 
'  awakened  and  hear  the  voice  of  the  Lamb,  who  have  long 

*  heard  the  voice  of  the  bead,  that  now  they  may  hear  the 
'voice  ol  the  Bridegroom,  the  voice  of  the  Bride,  the  voice 
'  of  the  Great  Prophet,  the  voice  of  the  Great  King,  the 
'  voice  of  the  Great  Shepherd  and  Bifhop  of  their  fouls. 

*  Sound  it  all  abroad,  ye  trumpets,  among  the  dead  in 
'  Adam  ;  for  Chrift  is  come,  the  fecond  Adam,  that  they 
'  might  have  life,  yea  have  it  abundantly.   Awaken  the  dead, 

*  awaken  the  flumberers,  awaken  the  dreamers,  awaken  them 
'  that  arc  afleep,  awaken  them  out  of  their  graves,  out  of 
'  their  tombs,  out  of  their  fepulchres,  out  of  the  feas  ! 
'  Sound  abroad,  ye  trumpets,  that  awaken  the  dead,  that 
'  they  may  all  hear  the  found  of  it  in  the  graves,  and  they 
'  that  hear  may  live  and  come  to  the  Life,  that  is,  the  Son 
'  ot  God.     He  is  rifcn  from  the  dead,  the  grave  could  not 


16^93  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  lo; 

*  hold  nor  contain  him,  neither  could  all  the  watchers  of  the 

*  earth,  with  all  their  guards,  keep  him  therein.  Sound, 
'  ye  trumpets  of  the  Lord,  to  all  the  feekers  of  the  living 

*  among  the  dead,  that  he  is  rifen  from  the  dead  ;  to  all  the 

*  feekers  of  the  living  among  the  dead,  and  in  the  graves  that 
'  the  watchers  keep  ;  he  is  not  in  the  grave,  he  is  rifen  ;  and 

*  there  is  that  under  the  grave  of  the  watchers  of  the  out- 
'  ward  grave,  which  muft  be  awakened  and  come  to  hear  his 

*  voice,  who  is  rifen  from  the  dead,  that  they  might  come  to 
'  live.  Therefore  found  abroad,  you  trumpets  of  the  Lord, 
'  that  the  grave  might  give  up  her  dead,  and  hell  and  the 
'  fea  might  give  up  their  dead;  and  all  might  come  forth  to 
'  judgment,  to  the  judgment  of  the  Lord  before  his  throne, 

*  and  have  their  fentence  and  reward  according  to  their 
'  works. 

'  Away  with  all  the  chafF  and  the  hufks,  and  contentions 

*  and  ftrife,  that  the  fwine  feed  upon  in  the  mire,  and  in 

*  the   fall ;    and  the  keepers  of  them  of  Adam  and  Eve's 

*  houfe  in  the  fall  ;  that  lies  in  the  mire,  out  of  light  and 

*  life. 

'  G.  F.' 

To  James  Hutchinfon's  in  Ireland  came  many  great  per- 
fons,  defiling  to  difcourfe  with  me  about  Eleftion  and  Re- 
probation.     I  told  them,   '  Though  they  judged  our  prin- 

*  ciple  foolifh,  it  was  too  high  for  them,  they  could  not  with 

*  their  wifdom  comprehend  it ;  therefore  I  would  diicourfe 

*  with  them  according  to  their  capacities.     You  fay,'  faid  1. 

*  that  God  hath  ordained  the  greateft  part  of  men  for  hell,  and 

*  that  they  were  ordained  fo  before  the  world  began ;  for  which 

*  your  proof  is  in  J ude.     You   fay,    Efau    was  reprobated, 

*  and  the  Egyptians,  and  the  flock  of  Ham.  But  Chrift 
'  faith  to  his  difciples,  "  Go,  teach  all  nations ;"  and,  "  Go 
"  into  all  nations,  and  preach  the  gofpel  of  life  and  falva- 
*'  tion."  If  they  were  to  go  to  all  natioas,  were  they  not  to 
'  go  to  Ham's  flock,  and  Efau's  flock  ?   Did  not  Chrift  die 

*  for  all  ?  Then  for  the  flock  of  Ham,  of  Efau,  and   the 

*  Egyptians.  Doth  not  the  fcripture  fay,  "  God  would 
"  have  all  men  to  be  faved  ?"   Mark,  "  All  men  ;"  then  the 

*  flock  of  Efau,  and  of  Ham  alfo.  Doth  not  God  fay, 
*'  Egypt  my  people  ?"  and  that  he  would  have  an  altar  in 
<  Egypt  ?  Ifa.  xix.  Were  there  not  many  Chriflians  for- 
'  merly  in  Egypt  ?  And  doth  not  hiflory  fay,  that  the  bi- 
'  fhop  of  Alexandria  would  formerly  have  been  pope  ?  And 

Vol.   II.  o 


jo6  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1669 

'  had  not  God  a  church  in  Babylon  ?  I  confefs,  "  The  word 
*'  come  to  Jacob,  and  the  ftatutes  to  Ifrael ;  the  Hke  was 
*'  not  to  other  nations."     For  the  law  of  God  was  given  to 

*  Ifrael ;  but  the  gofpel  was  to  be  preached  to  all  nations^ 

*  and  is  to  be  preached.     The  gofpel  of  peace  and  glad-tid- 

*  ings  to  all  nations.  "  He  that  believes  is  faved,  but  he 
*'  that  doth  not  believe  is  condemned  already ;"  fo  the  con- 

*  demnation   comes   through  unbelief.     And  whereas  }ude 

*  fpeaks  of  fome  that  were  of  old  ordained  (or  written  of  be- 
'  fore)  to  condemnation,  he  doth  not  fay,   before  the  world 

*  began;  but,   "  written  of  old ;"  which  may  be  referred  to 

*  Mofes's  writings,  who  wrote  of  thofe  whom    Jude  men- 

*  tions,  namely  Cain,   Corah,   Balaam,  and  the  angels  that 

*  kept  not  their  fiift  eftate  ;  and  fuch  Chriflians  as  followed 

*  them  m  their  way,  and  apoflatized  from  the  firft  fhate  of 
'  ChriRianity,  were  and  are  ordained  for  condemnation  by 
'  the   light  and    truth,  which  they  are  gone  from.      And 

*  though  the  apoftle  fpeaks  of  God's  loving  Jacob  and  hating 
'  Efau,  yet  he  tells  the  believers,  "  We  all  were  by  nature 
"  children  of  wrath,  as  well  as  others."     This  includes  the 

*  flock  of  Jacob,  of  which  the  apoftle  himfelf  and  all  believ- 

*  ing  Jews  were.     Thus  both  Jews  and   Gentiles  were  all 

*  concluded  under  fm,   and  fo  under  condemnation,    that 

*  God  might  have  mercy  upon  all  through  Jefus    Chrift. 

*  The  eleftion  and  choice  ftands  in  Chrift  :  "  and  he  that 
"  believes  is  faved,  and  he  that  believes  not  is  condemned 
•'  already."  Jacob  typifies  the  fecond  birth,  which  God 
'  loved  ;  and  both  Jews  and  Gentiles  muft  be  born  again, 
'  before   they  can  enter  the  kingdom  of  God.     When  you 

*  are  born  again,  ye   will  know  cleftion  and  reprobation; 

*  for  the  elcftion  ftands  in  Chrift,  the  feed,  before  the  world 

*  began ;  but  the  reprobation  lies  in  the  evil  feed  fince  the 

*  word  began.'  After  this  manner,  but  fomewhat  more 
largely,  I  difcourfed  with  thofe  great  perfons  about  this  mat- 
ter, and  they  confeiled  they  had  never  heard  fo  much  be- 
fore. 

;  After  I  had  travelled  over  Ireland,  and  vifited  friends  in 
their  meetings,  as  well  forbufinefs  as  worftiip,  and  anfwer- 
ed  fcveral  papers,  and  writings  from  monks,  friars,  and  Pro- 
tcftant  pricfts  (for  they  all  were  in  a  rage  againft  us,  and 
endeavoured  to  ftop  the  work  of  the  Lord,  and  fome  Jefuits 
fwore  in  fome  of  our  hearing,  that  we  came  to  fpread  our 
principles  in  that  nation,  but  we  ftiould  not  do  it)  I  return- 
ad  to  ivublin,  in  order  to  take  paflage  for  England.     When 


j669]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  107 

I  had  ftaid  the  firft-day's  meeting  there,  which  was  very 
large  and  precious,  there  being  a  fhip  ready,  and  the  wind 
ferving,  we  took  our  leave  of  friends  ;  parting  in  much  ten- 
dernefs  and  brokennefs,  in  the  fenfe  of  the  heavenly  life  and 
power,  manifefted  amongft  us.  Having  put  our  horfes  and 
neceffarics  on  board  in  the  morning,  we  went  ourfelves  in 
the  afternoon,  many  friends  accompanying  us  to  the  fhip  ; 
and  divers  friends  and  friendly  people  followed  us  in  boats, 
when  we  were  near  a  league  at  fea,  their  love  drawing  theni, 
though  not  without  danger.  A  good,  weighty,  and  true 
people  there  is  in  that  nation,  fenhble  of  the  power  of  the 
Lord  God,  tender  of  his  truth,  and  very  good  order  they 
have  in  their  meetings  ;  for  they  Hand  up  for  righteoufnefs 
and  holinefs,  which  clams  up  the  way  of  wickednefs.  A 
precious  vifitation  they  had,  and  there  is  an  excellent  fpirit 
in  them,  worthy  to  be  vifited.  Many  things  more  I  could 
write  of  that  nation,  and  of  my  travels  in  it,  which  would 
be  large  to  mention  particularly;  but  thus  much  I  thought 
good  to  fignify,  that  the  righteous  may  rejoice  in  the  prof- 
perity  of  truth. 

James  Lancafter,  Robert  Lodge,  and  Thomas  Briggs 
came  back  with  me;  John  Stubbs,  having  further  fervice 
there,  ftaid  behind.  We  were  two  nights  at  fea ;  in  one  of 
which  a  mighty  ftorm  arofe  that  put  the  velFel  in  great 
danger;  but  I  faw  the  power  of  God  went  over  the  winds 
and  ftorms,  he  had  them  in  his  hand,  and  his  power  bound 
them.  And  the  fame  power  of  the  Lord  God,  which  carri- 
ed us  over,  brought  us  back  again  ;  and  in  his  life  gave  us 
dominion  over  all  the  evil  fpirits  that  oppofed  us  there. 

We  landed  at  Liverpool,  and  went  to  Richard  John- 
fon's,  William  Barnes's,  and  to  William  Gandys,  vifiting 
friends,  and  having  many  precious  meetings  in  Lancafliire 
and  Chefliire.  We  came  into  Gloucefterfhire,  and  met 
with  a  report  at  Nailfworth,  which  was  fpread  in  that  coun- 
try, '  That  George  Fox  was  turned  Prefbyterian,  that  a 
'  pulpit  was  prepared  for  him  and  fet  in  a  yard,  and  that 
'  there  would  be  a  thoufand  people  there  the  ricxt  day  to 
'  hear  him.*  I  thought  it  ftrange  that  fuch  a  report  fliouM 
be  raifed  of  me ;  yet  as  we  went  further  from  one  friend's 
houfe  to  another,  we  met  with  the  fame.  ^Ve  palled  by 
the  yard  where  the  pulpit  was,  and  faw  it,  and  went  to  the 
place  where  friends  meeting  was  to  be  next  day,  where  vi^e 
ftaid  that  night.  Next  day,  being  ihe  firft-day,  we  had  a 
o  2 


,o8  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL,  [1669 

\cry  large  meeting,  and  the  Lord's  power  and  prefence  was 
amongll  us. 

The  occafion  of  this  ftrange  report  (as  I  was  informed)  was 
this.  There  was  one  John  Fox,  a  Prefbyterian  priefl, 
who  u  fed  to  go  about  "preaching  ;  and  fome,  changing  his 
name  from  John  to  George,  gave  out  that  George  Fox  was 
turned  froma  Quaker  to  be  a  Pre{byterian,  and  would  preach 
at  fuch  a  place  fuch  a  day.  This  begat  fuch  curiofity  in  the 
people,  that  they  went  thither  to  hear  this  Quaker  turned 
Prefbyterian,  who  would  not  have  gone  to  have  heard  John 
Fox  himfelf.  By  this  means  it  was  reported  they  had  got 
together  above  a  thoufand  people.  But  when  they  came 
there,  and  perceived  they  had  a  trick  put  upon  them,  that 
he  was  but  a  counterfeit  George  Fox,  and  underflood  that 
the  real  George  Fox  Vv'as  hard  by,  feveral  hundreds  came  to 
our  meeting,  and  were  fober  and  attentive.  '  I  direfted 
'  them  to  the  grace  of  God  in  themfelves,  which  would 
'  teach  them,  and  bring  them  falvation.'  When  the  meet- 
ing was  oyer,  fome  of  the  people  faid,  '  They  liked  George 
*  Fox  the  Quaker's  preaching  better  than  George  Fox  the 
'  Prefbytenan's.'  Thtis,  by  my  providential  coming  into 
thofc  parts  at  that  time,  thisfalfe  report  was  difcovered,  an^ 
lli.ime  came  pver  the  contrivers  of  it. 

Not  long  after  this  John  Fox  was  complained  of  in  the 
houfc  of  commons,  for  '  having  a  tumultuous  meeting,  in 
'  which  treafonable  words  were  fpoken :'  which  (according 
to  the  bell  information  I  could  get)  was  thus.  John  Fox 
had  formerly  been  priefl  of  Mansfield  in  Wiltfhire  ;  and, 
being  put  out  of  that  place,  was  afterwards  permitted  by  a, 
Common-prayer  piicfl  to  preach  fometimes  in  his  fleeple- 
houfe.  At  length  this  Prefbyterian  prieft,  prefuming  too 
far  upon  the  parifh  pricfl's  former  grant,  began  to  be  more 
bold  than  welcome,  and  attempted  to  preach  there  whether 
the  parifli  priefl.  would  or  no.  This  caufed  a  great  buftle 
and  contcd  in  the  ficeple-houic  between  the  two'priefls,  and 
their  hearers  on  cither  lide  ;  in  which  contefl  the  Common- 
prayer-book  was  cut  to  pieces,  and  fome  treafonable  words 
Ipoken  by  Ibrne  of  the  followers  of  )o}m  Fox.  This  ivas 
quickly  pat  in  the  news,  and  fome 'malicious  Prefbyterians 
cauled  it  to  be  fo  worded  as  if  it  had  proceeded  from  George 
Fox  the  Quaker,  though  I  was  above  two  hundred  miles 
from  tlic  ])lace  wben  this  buftle  happened.  When  I  heard 
of  it,  I  foon  procured  certificates  from  fome  of  the  memberr. 
of  the  Loufe  of  commons,  who  knew  this  man,  and  gave  i^ 


1669]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  109 

under  their  hands,  that  it  was  J.  Fox,  who  had  formerly 
been  parfon  of  Mansfield  in  Wiltfhire,  that  was  complained 
of  to  the  houfe  of  commons,  to  be  the  chief  ringleader  in 
that  unlawful  affembly. 

And  indeed  this  John  Fox  difcovered  himfelf  to  be  an 
ill  man ;  for  fome  who  had  been  his  followers  came  to  be 
convinced  of  truth,  and  thereupon  left  him ;  upon  which 
he  came  to  fome  of  their  houfes  to  talk  with  them ;  and 
they  telling  him,  '  He  was  in  the  fleps  of  the  falfe  prophets, 
'  preaching  for  hire  and  filthy  lucre,  like  thofe  whom  Chrift 
'  cried  wo  againft,  and  the  apoflles  declared  againfl,  fuch 

*  as  ferved  not  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift  but  their  own  bellies, 

*  and  telling  him,    Chrift  faid,    Freely   ye   have   received, 

*  freely  give,  and  therefore  he  ftiould  not  take  money  of 

*  people  for  preaching,  efpecially  now  times  were  fo  hard ;' 
he  repHed,  '  God  blefs  preaching,  that  brings  in  money,  let 

*  times  go  how  they  will.  Fill  my  belly  with  good  vi6luals; 
^  then  call  me  falfe  prophet,  or  what  you  will,  and  kick  me 

*  about  the  houfe  when  ye  have  done,  if  ye  will.'  ^his  re-r 
lation  I  had  from  a  man  and  his  wife,  who  had  been  for- 
merly his  hearers,  and  whom  John  Fox  (with  others)  cauf- 
ed  deeply  to  fufFer.  For  he,  and  fome  other  Prefbyterian 
priefts,  reforting  to  a  widow  woman's,  who  had  the  impro- 
priation, and  took  the  tithes  of  the  parifh,  (he  told  them, 
'  There  was  a  Quaker  in  that  parifh  that  would  not  pay 

*  her  tithes;'  and  afked,  what  fhe  fhould  do  with  him. 
They  advifed  her,  '  To  fend  workmen  to  cut  down  and 
'  carry  away  his  corn :'  which  fhe  did,  and  thereby  impove- 
rifhed  the  man.     But  to  proceed. — 

After  this  meeting  in  Gloucefterftiire,  we  travelled  till  we 
came  to  Briftol;  where  I  met  with  Margaret  Fell,  who  was 
come  to  vifit  her  daughter  Yeomans.  I  had  feen  from  the 
Lord  a  confiderable  time  before,  that  I  fhould  take  Marga- 
ret Fell  to  be  my  wife;  and  when  I  firft  mentioned  it  to 
her,  fhe  felt  the  anfwer  of  Life  from  God  thereunto.  But 
though  the  Lord  had  opened  this  thing  to  me,  yet  I  had 
not  received  a  command  from  him  for  the  accompliftiing  of 
it  then.  Wherefore  I  let  the  thing  reft,  and  went  on  in  the 
work  and  fervice  of  the  Lord,  according  as  he  led  me ;  tra- 
velling in  this  nation,  and  through  Ireland.  But  now  be- 
ing at  Briftol,  and  finding  Margaret  Fell  there,  it  opened 
in  me  from  the  Lord  that  the  thing  ftiould  be  accompliftied. 
After  we  had  difcourfed  the  matter  together,  I  told  her,  '  If 
'fhe  alfo  was  faiisfied  with  the  accompliOiing  of  it  i;iow, 


no  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1669 

•■  (lie  fhould  firfl  fend  for  her  children  :'  which  file  did. 
When  the  reft  of  her  daughters  were  come,  I  afked  both 
them  and  her  fons-in-law,  '  If  they  had  any  thing  againft  it, 

*  or  for  It  ?'  and  they  all  feverally  expreffed  their  fatisfadion 
therewith.  Then  I  allied  Margaret,  '  If  fhc  had  fulfiiied 
'  her  hufband's  will  to  her  children  ?'  She  replied,  '  The 
'  children  knew  fiie  had.'  Whereupon  I  afked  them, 
'  Whether,  if  their  mother  married,  they  Ihould  not  lofe  by 
'  it  ?'  I  afked  Margaret,  '  Whether  {he  had  done  any  thing 
'  in  lieu  of  it,  which  might  anfwer  it  to  the  children  ?'  The 
children  laid,  '  She  had  anfwered  it  to  them,  and  defired 
'  me  10  fpeak  no  more  of  it.'  I  told  them,  '  I  was  plain, 
'  and  wouid  have  all  things  done  plainly  :  for  I  fought  not 
'  any  outward  advantage  to  myfeif '  So  our  intention  of 
marriage  was  laid  before  friends  both  privately  and  publick- 
ly,  to  their  full  fatisfaftion,  many  of  whom  gave  teflimony 
that  it  was  of  God.  Afterwards,  a  meeting  being  appoint- 
ed on  purpofe  for  the  accompiifhing  thereof,  in  the  pablicfc 
meeting-houfe  at  Broad  Mead  in  Briftol,  we  took  each 
other  in  marriage ;  the  Lord  joining  us  together  in  the  ho- 
nourable marriage,  in  the  everlaftmg  covenant  and  immor- 
tal Seed  of  life.  In  the  fenfe  whereof,  living  and  weighty 
teftimonies  were  borne  thereunto  by  friends  in  the  movings 
of  the  heavenly  power,  which  united  us  together.  Then 
was  a  certificate,  relating  both  the  proceedings  and  the  mar- 
riage, openly  read,  and  figned  by  the  relations,  and  by  moll 
of  the  ancient  friends  of  that  city  ;  befides  many  others  from 
divers  parts  of  the  nation. 

We  (laid  about  a  week  in  Briftol,  and  then  went  toge- 
ther to  Oldftone  :  where,  taking  leave  of  each  other  in  ihe 
Lord,  we  parted,  betaking  ourfelves  each  to  our  feveral  fer- 
vice  ;  Margaret  returning  homewards  to  the  north,  and  I 
pa/h:ig  on  in  the  work  of  the  Lord  as  before.  I  travelled 
through  Wiltftiire,  Bcrkfliire,  Oxfordfliire,  Buckingham- 
(hire,  and  fo  to  London,  vifiting  friends:  in  all  which 
counties  I  had  many  large  and  precious  meetmgs. 

Bemg  in  London,  it  came  upon  me  to  write  to  friends 
throughout  the  nation,  about  '  putting  out  poor  children  to 

*  trades.'  Wherefore  I  fent  the  following  epiftic  to  the 
qu.u-terly  meetings  of  friends  in  all  the  counties. 

'  My  dear  Friends, 

LET  every  quarterly  meeting  make  inquiry  through  all 
the  monthly  and  other  meetings,  to  know  all  friends      f 


1569]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  nt 

*  that  are  widows,  or  others,   that  have  children  fit  to  put 

*  out  to  apprenticefhips;  lo  that  once  a  quarter  you  may  fet 

*  forth  an  apprentice  from  your  quarterly  meeting ;  fo  you 
'  may  fet  forth  four  in  a  year,  in  each  county,  or  more,  if 

*  there  be  occafion.  This  apprentice,  when  out  of  his  time, 
'  may  help  his  father  or  mother,  and  fupport  the  family 

*  that  is  decayed ;   and,  in  fo  doing,  all  may  come  to  live 

*  comfortably.  This  being  done  in  your  quarterly  meet- 
'  ings,  ye  will  have  knowledge  through  the  county,  in  the 
'  monthly  and  particular  meetings,  of  mailers  fit  for  them ; 
'  and  of  fuch  trades  as  their  parents  or  you  defire,  or  the 
'  cinldren  are  mofl  inclinable  to.  Thus  being  placed  out 
'  to  friends,  they  may  be  trained  up  in  truth;   and  by  this 

*  means  in  the  wifdom  of  God,  you  may  preferve  friends 

*  children  in  the  truth,  and  enable  them  to  be  a  flrength 

*  and  help  to  their  families,   and  nurfers  and  prefervers  of 

*  their  relations  in  their  ancient  days.  Thus  alfo,  things 
'  being  ordered  in  the  wifdom  of  God,  you  will  take  olF  a 

*  continual  maintenance,  and  free  yourfelves  from  much 
^  cumber.  For  in  the  country,  ye  know,  ye  may  fet 
'  forth  an  apprentice  for  a  little  to  feveral  trades,  as  brick- 

*  layers,  mafons,  carpenters,  wheelwrights,  plqughwrights, 
'  taylors,  tanners,   curriers,    blackfmiths,   fhoemakers,    nail- 

*  ers,  butchers,  weavers  of  linen  and  woollen,  flufFs  and 
'  ferges,  &c.      And  you  may  do  well  to  have  a  flock  in 

*  your  quarterly  meetings  for  that  purpofe.  All  that  is 
'  given  by  any  friends  at  their  deceafe  (except  it  be  given  to 
'  fome  particular  ufe,  perfon,  or  meeting)  may  be  brought 

*  to  the  publick  flock  for  that  purpofe.     This  will  be  a  way 

*  for  the  preferving  of  many  that  are  poor  among  you  ;  and 

*  it  will  be  a  way  of  making  up  poor  families.      In  feveral 

*  counties  it  is  prattifed  already.     Some  quarterly  meetings 

*  fet  forth  two  apprentices ;   and  fometimcs  the  children  of 

*  others  that  are  laid  on  the  parifli.  You  may  bind  them 
'  for  fewer  or  more  years,  according  to  their  capacities.      In 

*  all  things  the  wifdom  of  God  will  teach  you;  by  which 
'  ye  may  help  the  children  of  poor  friends,  that  they  may 

*  come  to  fupport  their  f^imilies,  and  preferve  them  in  the 
'  fear  of  God.  So  no  more,  but  my  love  in  the  evcrlalling 
'  Seed,  by  which  ye  will  have  wifdom  to  order  all  things 

*  to  the  glory  of  God. 

'  G.  F.' 
^  London,  the  firft  of  the 
*  11th  month,  1669.' 


Hi  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1669 

I  flaid  not  long  in  London  ;  but  having  vifited  friends, 
and  finding  things  there  quiet  and  well,  the  Lord's  power 
being  over  all,  I  palfed  into  Effex  and  Hertford  (hire, 
where  I  had  many  precious  meetings.  Intending  to  go  as 
far  as  Leicefterfhire,  I  wrote  a  letter  to  my  wife,  to  acquaint 
her  therewith ;  that,  if  fhe  found  it  convenient,  Ihe  might 
meet  me  there.  From  Hertfordfhire  I  turned  into  Cam- 
bridgefliire;  thence  into  Huntingdonfhire,  and  fo  into  Lei- 
cefterfhire ;  where,  inftead,  of  meeting  my  wife,  I  heard 
ihe  was  haled  out  of  her  houfe  to  Lancafter  prifon,  by  an 
order  got  from  the  king  and  council,  to  fetch  her  back  to 
prifon  upon  the  old  premunire  ;  though  fhe  had  been  dif- 
charged  from  that  imprifonment  by  an  order  from  the  king 
and  council  the  year  before.  Wherefore,  having  vifited 
friends  as  far  as  Leicefterfhire,  I  returned  by  Derbyftiire  and 
Warwickfhire  to  London ;  having  had  many  large  and  blef- 
fed  meetings  in  the  feveral  counties  I  pafTed  through,  and 
been  fweetly  refrefhed  amongft  friends  in  my  travels. 

As  foon  as  I  was  got  to  London,  I  haftened  Mary  Lower 
and  Sarah  Fell  (two  of  my  wife's  daughters)  to  the  king, 
to  acquaint  him  how  their  mother  was  dealt  with,  and  fee 
if  they  could  get  a  full  difcharge  for  her,  that  fhe  might  en- 
joy her  eftate  and  liberty  without  moleftation.  This  was 
fomewhat  difficult,  but  by  diligent  attendance  they  at  length 
obtained  it ;  the  king  giving  command  to  Sir  John  Otway 
to  fignify  his  pleafure  therein  by  letter  to  the  fherift,  and 
others  concerned  in  the  country.  Which  letter  Sarah  Fell, 
going  down  with  her  brother  and  fifter  Rous,  carried  with 
her  to  Lancafter;  and  by  them  I  wrote  to  my  wife,  as 
fullowcth  : 

*  iMy  dear  heart  in  the  truth  and  life,  that  changeth  not, 

'  TT  was  upon  me  that  Mary  Lower  and  Sarah  fhould  go 
'  X  to  the  king  concerning  thy  imprifonment ;  and  to  Kirby, 
'  that  the  power  of  the  l.ord  might  appear  over  them  all  in 
'  thy  deliverance.  They  went;  and  then  thought  to  have 
'  come  down  ;  but  it  was  upon  me  to  ftay  them  a  little  lon- 
'  ger,  that  they  might  follow  the  bufinefs  till  it  was  effefted : 
'  which  it  now  is,  and  is  here  lent.  The  late  declaration  of 
'  mine  hath  been  very  ferviceablc,  people  being  generally 
'  fatisfied  with  it.  So  no  more  but  my  love  in  the  holy 
*  Seed. 

'  G.  F.' 


?670]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  irj 

The  declaration  here  mentioned  was  a  printed  fheet, 
written  upon  occafion  of  a  new  perfecution  ftirred  up.  For 
by  that  time  I  was  got  to  London,  a  frefh  ftorm  was  rifen, 
occafioned,  it  was  thought,  by  that  tumultuous  meeting  in 
a  fteeple-houfe  in  Wiltfhue  or  Gloucefterfhire,  mentioned 
a  httle  before,  from  which,  as  it  was  faid,  fome  members  of 
parhament  took  advantage  to  get  an  ad;  paffed  againft  fedi- 
tious  conventicles ;  which  foon  after  came  forth,  and  was 
turned  againft  us,  who  of  all  people  were  free  from  fedition 
and  tumult.  Whereupon  I  wrote  a  declaration,  fhewing 
from  the  preamble  and  terms  of  the  acl  that  we  were  not 
fuch  a  people,  nor  our  meetings  fuch  as  were  defcribed  in 
that  aft.  Befides  that  declaration,  I  wrote  alfo  another 
fliort  paper,  on  the  occafion  of  that  a€l  againft  meetings  ; 
opening  our  cafe  to  the  magiftrates,  as  folioweth  : 

*  /^  FRIENDS,    confider  this   aft,   which  limits    our 

*  V_-/  meetings   to  five.      Is  this,  '  to  do  as  ye  would   be 

*  done  by  ?'  Would  ye  be  fo  fervcd  yourfelves  ?   We  own 

*  Chrift  Jefus  as  well  as  you,  his  coming,  death,  and  refur- 

*  reftion ;  and   if  we  be  contrary  minded   to  you  in   fome 

*  things,  is  not  this  the  apoftle's  exhortation,  to  "  wait  till 
*'  God  hath  revealed  it  ?"  Doth  not  he  fay,  *  What  is  not 

*  of  faith,  is  fin  ?*  Seeing  we  have  not  faith  in  things  which 

*  ye  would  have  us  to  do,  would  it  not  be  fm  in  us  if  we 

*  ftiould  aft   contrary  to  our  faith  ?   Why  fhould  any  man 

*  have  power  over  any  other  man's  faith,  feeing   Chrift  is 

*  the  author  of  it  ?   When  the  apoftles  preached  in  the  name 

*  of  Jefus,  and  great  multitudes  heard  them,  and  the  rulers 

*  forbad  them  to  fpeak  any  more  in  that  name,  did  not  they 

*  bid  them  judge  whether  it  were  better  to  obey  God   or 

*  man  ?   Would  not  this  aft  have  taken  hold  of  the  twelve 

*  apoftles  and  feventy  difciples  ;  for  they  met  often  together? 

*  If  there  had   been  a  law  made  then,  that  not  above  five 

*  fhould  have  met   with    Chrift,  would  not  that  have  been 

*  an  hindering  him  from  meeting  with  his  diiciples  ?   Do  ye 

*  think  that  he,  who  is  the  wifdom  of  God,  or  his  difciples, 

*  would  have  obeyed  it  ?   If  fuch  a  law  had  been  made  in 

*  the  apoftles  days,  that  not  above  five  might  have  met  to- 

*  gether,  who   had  been  different  minded   from   either  the 

*  Jews  or  the  Gentiles,  do  ye  think  the  churches  of  Chrift 
'  at  Corinth,  Philippi,  Ephefus,  Theifalonica,  or  the  reft 
'  of  the  gathered  churches,  would  have  obeyed  it  ?   O  there- 

*  fore  confider !  for  we  are   Chriftians,  and  partake  of  the 

Vol.  II,  P 


,14  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [167* 

'  nature  and  life  of  Chrlft.     Strive  not  to  limit  the  Holy 

*  One;  for  God's  power  cannot  be  limited,  and  is  not  to  be 

*  quenched.  "  Do  unto  aH  men  as  ye  would  have  them  do 
**  unto  you ;  for  that  is  the  law  and  the  prophets." 

•  This  is  from  thofe  who  wifh  you  all  well,  and  defire 
'  your  everl ailing  good  and  profperity,  called  Qua- 
'  kers ;  who  feek  the  peace  and  good  of  all  people, 
*  though  they  affli6l  us,  and  caufe  us  to  fufFer.' 

'  G.  F.* 

As  I  had  endeavoured  to  foften  the  magiftrates,  and  to 
take  off  the  fharpnefs  of  their  edge  in  the  execution  of  the 
aft,  fo  it  was  upon  me  to  write  a  few  lines  to  friends,  to 

*  llren.'then  and  encourage  them  to  Hand  faft  in  their  tefli- 

*  mony,  and  bear,  with  Chriflian  patience  and  content,  the 

*  fufFering  that  was  coming  upon  them.' 

*  1\/T^  dear  friends,   Keep  in  the  faith  of  God  above  all 

*  IVl.  outward  things  and  in  his  power,  that  hath  given 

*  you  dominion  over  all.     The  fame  power  of  God  is  flill 

*  with  you  to  deliver  you  as  formerly  :  for  God  and  his 
'  power  is  the  fame ;  his  Seed  is  over  all,  and  before  all ; 
'  and  will  be,  when  that  which  makes  to  fufFer  is  gone.    Be 

*  of  good  faith  in  that  which  changeth  not;  for  whatfoever 

*  any  doth  again  ft  the  truth  it  will  come  upon  themfelves, 
'  and  fall  as  a  mill-ftone  on  their  heads.  If  the  Lord  fufFer 
'  you  to  be  tried,  let  all  be  given  up  ;  look  at  the  Lord  and 

*  his  power,  which  is  over  the  whole  world,  and   will  re- 

*  main  when  the  world  is  gone.      In  the  Lord's  power  and 

*  truth  rejoice,  friends,  over  that  which  makes  to  fufFer,  in 

*  the  Seed,  which  was  before  it  was;  for  the  life,  truth,  and 

*  power  of  God  is  over  all.     All  keep  in  that ;  and  if  ye 

*  lulfcr  in  that  it  is  to  the  Lord. 

'  Friends,  the  Lord  hath  blefFed  you  in  outward  things ; 

*  and  now  he  may  try  you,  whether  your  minds  be  in  out- 
'  ward  things,  or  with  the  Lord  that  gave  you  them  ?  There- 

*  lore  keep  in  the  Seed,  by  which  all  outward  things  were 
'  made,  and  which  is  over  them  all.     What!  Ihall   not    I 

*  pray,  and  fpcak  to  God,  with  my  face  towards  heavenly 
'  Jerulalcni,  according  to  my  wonted  time  ?   Let  not  any 

*  one's  Delilah  fliave  his  head,  left  fuch  lofe  their  ftrength ; 
'  ncilhcL-  reft  in  its  lap,  left  the  Philiftines  be  upon  you. 


i67*]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  115 

*  For  your  reft  is  in  Chrift  Jefus  ;  therefore  reft  not  in  any 

*  thing  elfe. 

*  G.  f; 

*  London,  the  12th  of  the 
'  2d  Month,   1670.' 

On  the  next  firft-da)'  after  the  a£l  came  in  force,  I  went 
to  the  meeting-honfe  at  Gracechurch-ftreet,  where  I  expect- 
ed the  ftorm  was  mofthkely  to  begin.  When  I  came  there, 
I  found  the  ftreet  full  of  people,  and  a  guard  fet  to  keep 
friends  out  of  their  meeting-houfe.  I  went  to  the  other  paf- 
fage,  out  of  Lombard-ftreet,  where  alfo  I  found  a  guard; 
but  the  court  was  full  of  people,  and  a  friend  was  fptaking 
amongft  them  :  but  fpoke  not  long.  When  he  had  done, 
I  ftood  up,  and  was  moved  to  fay,   '  Saul,   Saul,  why  per- 

*  fccuteft  thou  me  ?  It  is  hard  for  thee  to  kick  againll  that 
'  which  pricks  thee.  Then  I  fliewed,  it  is  Saul's  nature  that 
'  perfecuteft  ftill ;  and  that  they,  who  perfecute  Chrift  in 
'  his  members  now,  where  he  is  made  manifeft,  kick  againft 

*  that  which  pricks  them.  That  it  was  the  birth  of  the  flefti 
'  that  perfecuted  the  birth  born  of  the  Spirit ;    and   that  it 

*  was  the  nature  of  dogs  to  tear  and  devour  the  fheep  ;  but 

*  that  we  fuffered  as  fheep  that  bite  not  again  ;  for  we  were 

*  a  peaceable  people,  and  loved  them  that  perfeCuted  us.* 
After  I  had  fpoken  awhile  to  this  efFed,  the  conftable  came 
with  an  informer  and  foldiers  ;  and  as  they  plucked  me 
down,  I  faid,  '  Blelfed  are  the  peace-makers.'  The  com- 
mander of  the  foldiers  put  me  among  the  foldiers,  and  bid 
them  fecure  me,  faying  to  me,  '  You  arc  the  man  I  looked 

*  for.'  They  took  alfo  John  Barneyate,  with  another 
friend,  and  had  us  away  firft  to  the  Exchange,  and  after- 
wards towards  Moorfields.  As  we  went  along  the  ftreets 
the  people  were  very  moderate.  Some  of  them  laughed  at 
the  conftable,  and  told  him,  '  We  would  not  run  av^ay.* 
The  informer  went  with  us  unknown  ;  till  falling  into  dif- 
courfe  with  one  of  the  company,  he  laid,  '  It  would  never 
'  be  a  good  world  till  all  people  came  to  the  good  old  reli- 

*  gion  that  was  too  hundred  years  ago.'  Whereupon  I  aflc- 
ed  him,  *' Art  thou  a  Papift  ?  What!  a  Papift  mformer  ? 
'  for    two  hundred  years  ago  there   was    no  other  religion 

*  but  that  of  the  Papifts.*  Hefaw  he  had  enfnared  himlelf, 
and  was  vexed  at  it;  for  as  he  went  along  the  ftrects,  I  fpoke 
often  to  him,  and  manifefted  what  be  was.  When  we  were 
come  to  the  mayor's  houfe,  and  were  in  the  court -yard,  ie- 

K     2r 


ii6  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [167a 

veral  afked  me,  '  How  and  for  what  I  was  taken  ?'  I  defir- 
rd  them  to  aflc  the  informer  ;  and  alfo  know  what  his  name 
was  :  but  he  refufed  to  tell  his  name.  Whereupon  one  of 
the   mayor's  officers    looking  out  at  a  window,  told  him, 

*  He  fhould  tell  his  name  before  he  went  away  :  for  the  lord 

*  mayor  would  know  by  what  authority  he  intruded  himfelf 

*  with  foldiers  into  the  execution  of  thofe  lav/s  which  belonged 
'  to  the  civil  magiflrate  to  execute,  and  not  to  the  military.'' 
After  this,  he  was  eager  to  be  gone ;  and  went  to  the  porter 
to  be  let  out.  One  of  the  officers  called  to  him,  faying, 
'  Have  you  brought  people  here  to  inform  againft,  and  now 
'  will  you  go  away  before  my  lord  mayor  comes  ?'  Some 
called  to  the  porter  not  to  let  him  out ;  whereupon  he  forci- 
bly pulled  open  the  door  and  flipped  out.  No  fooner  was 
he  come  into  the  flreet  but  the  people  gave  a  fhout,  that 
made  the  fl;reet  ring  again,  crying  out,  '  A  Papill  mformer! 

*  A  Papifl  mformer  !'  We  defired  the  conftable  and  foldiers, 
to  go  and  refcue  him  out  of  the  people's  hands,  left  they 
fhould  do  hmi  a  mifchief.  They  went,  and  brought  him 
into  the  mayor's  entry,  where  we  ftaid  awhile  :  but  when 
he  went  out  again,  the  people  rccei\xd  him  with  fuch  ano- 
ther ffiout.  Whereupon  the  foldiers  were  obliged  to  refcue 
him  once  more  ;  and  then  they  had  him  into  an  houfein  an 
alley,  where  they  perfuaded  him  to  change  his  perriwig,  fo 
he  got  away  unknown. 

When  the  mayor  came,  we  were  brought  into  the  room 
where  he  was,  and  fome  of  his  officers  would  have  taken  off 
our  hats ;  which  he  perceiving,  bid  them,  '  let  us  alone,  and 

*  not  meddle  with  our  hats  ;  for,'  faid  he,   '  they  are  not  yet 

*  brought  before  me  in  judicature.'  So  we  flood  by,  while 
he  examined  fome  Prefbyterian  and  Baptift  teachers;  with 
"whom  he  was  fomewhat  ffiarp,  and  convifted  them.  After 
he  had  done  with  them,  I  was  brought  to  the  table  where  he 
fat  ;  and  then  the  officers  took  off  my  hat.  The  mayor  faid 
miId!ytome,  'Mr.  Fox,  you  are  an  eminent  man  amongft 
'  thofe  of  your  profeffion;  pray,  will  you  beinftrumentaUo 
'  dilfuade  them  from  meeting  in  fuch  great  numbers  ?  for, 

*  feeing  Chnft  hath  promifed,  that  where  two  or  three  are 
'  met  in  his  name,  he  will  be  in  the  midflof  them  ;  and  the 
'  king  and  parliament  are  gracioufly  plcafed  to  allow  of  four 
'  to  meet  together  to  woilhip  God;  why  will  not  you  be 
'  content  to  partake  botii  of  Chrifl's  promife  to  two  or  three 
'  and  the  king's  mdulgencc  to  four  ?'  I  anfwered  to  this  pur-, 
pofe:   '  Chrift's  prouiifo  was  not  to  difcourage  manv  from 


1670]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  117 

*  meeting  together  in  his  name  ;  but  to  encourage  the  few, 

*  that  the  feweft  might  not  forbear  to  meet,  becaufe  of  their 

*  fewnefs.      But  if  Chrifl  hath  promifed  to  manifeft  his  pre- 

*  fence  in  the  midft  of  fo  fmall  an  affembly,  where  but  two 

*  or  three  were  gathered  in  his  name,  how  much  more  would 

*  his  prefence  abound,  where  two  or  three  hundred  are  ga- 

*  thered  in  his  name  ?  I  wifhed  him  to  confider  whether  this 
^  a6t  would  not  have  taken  hold  of  Chrift,  with  his  twelve 

*  apofties  and  feventy  difciples  (if  it  had  been  in  their 
'  time)  who  ufed  to  meet  often  together,  and  that  in  great 
^  numbers?  However,  I  told  him  this  aft  did  not  concern 
'  us  ;  for  it  was  made  againft  feditious  meetings,  of  fuch  as 

*  met,  under  colour  and  pretence  of  religion,  to  contrive  in- 

*  furreftions,  as  (the  aft  fays)  late  experience   had  fhewn ; 

*  but  we  had  been  fufficiently  tried  and  proved,  and  always 

*  found  peaceable  •  therefore  he  fhould  do  well  to  put  a  dif- 

*  ference   between   the   innocent  and  the  guilty/     He  faid, 

*  The  aft  was  made  againft  meetings,  and  a  worfhip  not  ac- 

*  cording  to  the  liturgy/     I  told  him,   '  [According  to]  was 

*  not  the  very  fame  thing ;  and  afked  him,  whether  the  li- 
'  turgy  was  according  to  the  fcriptures  ?   And  whether  we 

*  might  not  read  fcriptures,  and  fpeak  fcriptures  ?   He  faid, 

*  Yes.     I  told  him,   This  aft  took  hold  only  of  fuch  as  met 

*  to  plot  and  contrive  infurreftions,  as  late  experience  had 
^  fhewn ;  but  they  had  never  experienced  that  by  us.     Ee- 

*  caufe  thieves  are  fometimes  on  the  road,  muft  not  honeft 
*■  men  travel  ?   And  becaufe  plotters  and  contrivers  have  met 

*  to  do  mifchief,  muft  not  an  honeft,  peaceable  people  meet 

*  to  do  good  ?   If  we  had  been  a  people  that  met  to  plot  and 

*  contrive  infurreftions,  &c.  we  might  have  drawn  ourfelves 

*  into  fours;  for  four  might  do  more   mifchief  in    plotting 

*  than  if  there  were  four  hundred,  becaufe  four  might  fpeak 

*  out  their  minds  more  freely  to  one  another  than  four  hun- 

*  dred  could.  Therefore  we  being  innocent,  and  not  the 
'  people  this  aft  concerns,  we  keep  our  meetings  as  we  ufed 
'  to  do;  and  I  faid,  I  believed  that  he  knew  in  his  confci- 
'  ence  we  were  innocent/  After  fome  more  difcourfe  he  took 
our  names,  and  the  places  where  we  lodged,  and  at  length, 
as  the  informer  was  gone,  fetus  at  liberty. 

Being   at   liberty,    the   friends    with   me    afked,    '  Whi- 

*  ther  I  would  go  ?'     I  told  them,   '  To  Gracechurch-ftreet 

*  meeting  again,  if  it  w;is  not  over.'  When  we  came  there, 
the  people  were  generally  gone ;  only  fome  few  ftood  at 
the  ^ate.     \\'e  went  into  Gcrrard  Pvoberts's.     From  thence 


,,8  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1670 

I  fent  to  know  how  the  other  meetings  in  the  city  were  ? 
And  underRood,  that  at  fome  of  the  meeting-places  friends 
were  kept  out;  at  others  they  were  taken,  but  fet  at  liberty 
again  a  few  days  after.  A  glorious  time  it  was;  for  the 
Lord's  power  came  over  all,  and  his  everlafting  truth  got 
renown.  For  as  fall  as  fome,  that  were  fpeaking,  were  ta- 
ken down,  others  were  moved  of  the  Lord  to  (land  up  and 
fpcak,  to  the  admiration  of  the  people ;  and  the  more,  be- 
caufe  many  Baptifls  Imd  other  feftaries  left  their  publick 
meetings,  and  came  to  fee  how  the  Quakers  would  fland. 
As  for  the  informer  aforefaid,  he  was  fo  frighted,  that  there 
duril  hardly  any  informer  appear  publickly  again  in  Lon- 
don for  fome  time  after.  But  the  mayor,  whofe  name  was 
Samuel  Starling,  though  he  carried  himfelf  fmoothly  towards 
us,  proved  afterwards  a  very  great  perfecutor  of  our  friends, 
many  of  whom  he  call  into  prifon,  as  may  be  feen  m  the 
trials  of  W.  Penn,  W.  Mead,  and  others  at  the  Old  Bailey 
this  year. 

After  fome  time  the  heat  of  perfecution  in  the  city  be- 
gan to  abate,  and  meetings  v.-ere  quieter  there.  I  being 
then  clear  of  the  city,  went  to  vifit  friends  in  the  country; 
and  attended  feveral  meetings  in  Middlefex,  Buckingham- 
{hire,  and  Oxfordfhire,  which  were  quiet,  though  in  fome 
places  there  was  much  threatening.  At  Reading  moft  of 
the  friends  were  in  prifon;  and  I  went  to  vifit  them.  When 
I  had  been  awhile  with  them,  the  friends  that  were  prifoners 
gathered  together,  and  feveral  other  perfons  came  in ;  fo  I 
had  a  fine  opportunity  amongfl  them,  and  '  declared  the 
*  word  of  life,  encouraging  them  in  the  truth  ;  and  they 
'  were  refreflied  in  feeling  the  prefence  and  power  of  the 
'  Lord- amongfl  them.'  When  the  meeting  was  ended,  the 
gaoler  underilanding  I  was  there,  friends  were  concerned 
how  to  get  me  fafe  out  again ;  for  they  feared  he  fluould  flop 
mc.  After  I  had  flaid  awhile,  and  eat  with  them,  I  went 
down  flairs,  and  the  gaoler  being  at  the  door,  I  put  my 
hand  in  my  pocket,  which  he  had  fuch  an  eye  to,  hoping 
to  get  fomcthing  of  me,  that  he  afked  me  no  queflion.  So 
I  gave  him  fomcthing,  and  bad  him  '  be  kind  and  civil  to 
'  my  friends  in  prifon,  whom  I  came  to  vifit;'  and  he  let 
mj  pafs  out  without  interruption.  But  foon  after  Ifaac 
Pcniugton  coming  to  vifit  them,  he  flopped  him,  and  cauf- 
td  him  to  be  made  a  prifbncr. 

Next  morning  I  rode  to  a  meeting  at  Baghurfl  in  Hamp- 
Oiire,  Thomas  Briggs  being  with  me.     When  we  came  into 


1670]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ,,9 

the  parifh,  fome  fober  people  told  us,  '  the  piieft  of  the 
'  town  was  an  envious  man,  and  did  threaten  us.'  We 
went  to  the  meeting,  which  was  large,  and  after  fome  time 
Thomas  Briggs  flood  up  and  fpoke.  It  feems  the  prieft 
had  got  a  warrant,  and  lent  the  conflables  and  other  officers 
with  it.  They  came  to  the  houfe,  (laid  awhile,  and  then 
went  away,  but  did  not  come  into  the  meeting ;  fo  we  in 
the  meeting  did  not  know  of  their  being  there.  After  Tho- 
mas Briggs  had  done  fpeaking,  I  was  moved  of  the  Lord 
to  fland  up,  and  declare  the  word  of  life  to  the  people ;  and 
a  precious  meeting  we  had.  When  the  meeting  was  ended 
and  riien,  I  heard  a  great  clutter  in  the  yard ;  and  when  we 
came  out,  the  man  of  the  houfe  told  us,  '  The  officers  had 

*  been  in  the  houfe  before,  and  did  not  come  into  the  meet- 

*  ing,  but  went  away  without  doing  any  thing.  And  that 
'  now  the  priefl  in  a  great  rage  had  fent  them  again,  and 

*  his  own  fervant  with  them.'  But  the  meeting  being  ended 
before  they  came,  they  could  do  nothing.  Thus  the  good 
providence  of  the  Lord  preferved  us  from  the  wicked  de- 
lign  of  the  envious  pried. 

From  thence  we  went  to  a  friend's  on  the  edge  of  Berkfhire, 
where  feveral  friends  came  to  vifit  us.  Afterwards  we  palTed 
into  Surry,  and  had  many  precious  meetings,  till  we  came 
to  Stephen  Smith's  near  Guildford,  where  great  perfecution 
had  been ;  and  much  goods  had  been  taken  away  from 
friends  for  their  meetings,  and  under  great  threatcnings  they 
were  at  that  time;  yet  we  had  feveral  bleffed  meetings  there- 
abouts; and  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all,  in  and  by  which 
We  were  preferved. 

We  went  into  Suffex,  by  Richard  Baxe's,  where  we  had 
a  large,  precious,  quiet  meeting,  though  the  conftables  had- 
given  out  threatcnings  before,  I  had  many  more  meetings 
in  that  county ;  and  though  there  were  fome  threatenings, 
meetings  were  peaceable ;  and  friends  refreffied,  and  ella- 
blilhed  upon  the  foundation  of  God  that  ftands  fure. 
When  I  had  thoroughly  vifited  Suffex,  I  went  into  Kent, 
and  had  many  glorious  and  precious  meetings  in  feveral 
parts  of  that  county.  I  went  to  a  meeting  near  Deal, 
which  was  very  large ;  and  returning  from  thence  to  Can- 
terbury, vifited  friends  there ;  then  palfed  into  the  Ifle  of 
Sheppy,  where  I  flaid  two  or  three  days :  and  thither  came 
Alexander  Parker,  George  Whitehead,  and  John  Roufe. 

The  next  day,  finding  my  fervice  for  the  Lord  finilhcd 
there,  W2  palled  towards  Kochefter.     As  I  was  walking 


,ia  CEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  ll6^<9 

down  a  hill,  a  great  weight  and  oppreffion  fell  upon  my  fpirit. 
I  got  on  my  horfe  again;  but  the  weight  remained  fo,  that  I 
was  hardly  able  to  ride.  At  length  we  came  to  Rochefler, 
but  I  was  much  fpent,  being  fo  extremely  loaden  and  burden- 
ed with  the  world's  fpirits,  that  my  life  was  oppreffed  undet 
them.  I  got  with  difficulty  to  Gravefend,  and  lay  at  an  inn 
there ;  but  could  hardly  either  eat  or  fleep.  The  next  day 
John  Roufe  and  Alexander  Parker  went  for  London.  John 
Stubbs  and  I  went  over  the  Ferry  into  EOex.  We  came 
to  Horn-church,  where  was  a  meeting  on  the  firft-day.  Af- 
ter the  meeting  I  rode  with  great  uneafmefs  to  Stratford,  to 
a  friend's  whofe  name  was  Williams ;  he  had  formerly  been 
a  captcun.  Here  I  lay  exceeding  weak,  and  at  lafl  loft  both 
hearing  and  fight.  Several  friends  came  to  m.e  from  Lon- 
don. 1  told  them,  '  I  fhould  be  as  a  fign  to  fuch  as  would 
*  not  fee,  and  fuch  as  would  not  hear  the  truth.'  In  this 
condition  I  continued  a  pretty  while.  Several  came  about 
me ;  and  though  I  could  not  fee  their  perfons,  I  felt  and 
difcerned  their  fpirits,  who  of  them  was  honeft-hearted,  and 
who  was  not.  Divers  friends,  who  praftifed  phyfick,  would 
have  given  me  medicines,  but  I  was  not  to  meddle  with 
any ;  for  I  was  fenfible  I  had  a  travail  to  go  through ;  and 
therefore  defired  none  but  folid,  weighty  friends  might  be 
about  me.  Under  great  fufferings,  forrows,  and  opprefhons 
I  lay  for  feveral  weeks ;  whereby  I  was  brought  fo  low  and 
weak  in  body,  that  few  thought  I  could  live.  Some  of  thofe 
with  me  went  away,  faying,  '  They  would  not  fee  me  die  ;* 
and  it  was  reported  both  in  London  and  in  the  country 
that  I  was  deceafed ;  but  I  felt  the  Lord's  power  inwardly 
fupporting  me.  When  thofe  about  me  had  given  me  up 
to  die,  I  fpoke  to  them  to  get  a  coach  to  carry  me  to  Ger- 
rard  Roberts's,  about  twelve  miles  off;  for  I  found  it  was 
my  place  to  go  thither.  I  had  now  recovered  a  little  glim- 
mering fight,  fo  that  I  could  difcern  the  people  and  fields 
as  I  went,  and  that  was  all.  When  I  came  to  Gerrard's, 
he  was  very  weak.  I  was  moved  to  fpeak  to  him,  and  en- 
courage him.  After  I  had  ftaid  about  three  weeks  there,  it 
was  with  me  to  go  to  Enfield.  Friends  were  afraid  of  my 
removing;  but  I  told  them  I  might  Mely  go.  When  I 
had  taken  my  leave  of  Gerrard,  and  was  come  to  Enfield,. 
I  went  (irfl  to  viGt  Amor  Sioddart,  who  lay  very  weak,  and 
almoft  fpeechlefs.  I  was  moved  to  tell  him,  '  He  had  been 
'  faiiiif.il  as  a  man,  and  faithixil  to  God  ;  and  that  the  im- 
'  mortal  Seed  of  life  was  his  crown.*     Many  more  words  I 


5670]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  121 

was  moved  to  fpeak  to  him  ;  though  I  was  tlien  fo  weak,  I 
was  hardly  able  to  ftand ;  and  within  a  few  days  after  Amor 
died.  I  went  to  the  widow  Dry's  at  Enfield,  where  I  lay 
all  that  winter;  warring  in  fpint  with  the  evil  fpirits  of  the 
world,  that  warred  againfl  truth  and  friends.  For  there 
were  great  perfecutions  at  this  time.  Some  meeting-houfes 
were  pulled  down,  and  many  were  broken  up  by  foldiers. 
Sometimes  a  troop  ofhorfe  or  a  company  of  foot  came;  and 
fome  broke  their  fwords,  carbines,  muflcets,  and  pikes  with 
beating  friends.  Many  they  wounded,  fo  that  their  blood 
lay  in  the  ftreets.  Amongft  others,  that  were  aclive  in  this 
cruel  perfecution  at  London,  my  old  adverfary  colonel  Kir- 
by  was  one  ;  who,  with  a  company  of  foot,  went  to  break 
up  feveral  meetings  ;  and  would  often  inquire  for  me  at  the 
meetings  he  broke  up.  One  time,  as  he  went  over  the  water 
to  Horflydown,  there  happening  fome  fcuffle  between  fome 
of  his  foldiers  and  fome  of  the  watermen,  he  bid  his  men 
*  Fire  at  them ;'  which  they  did,  and  killed  fome. 

I  was  under  great  fufFerings  at  this  time,  beyond  what  I 
have  words  to  declare.  For  I  was  brought  into  the  deep, 
and  faw  all  the  rehgions  of  "the  world,  and  people  that  lived 
in  them,  and  the  priefls  that  held  them  up  ;  who  were  as  a 
company  of  men-eaters,  eating  up  the  people  like  bread, 
and  gnawing  the  flefh  from  off  their  bones.  But  as  for  true 
religion  and  worfhip,  and  miniftcrs  of  God,  alack !  I  faw 
there  was  none  amongft  thofe  of  the  world  that  pretended  to 
it.  For  they  that  pretended  to  be  the  church,  were  but  a 
company  of  men-eaters,  men  of  cruel  vifages,  and  of  long 
teeth  ;  who,  though  they  had  cried  againft  the  men-eaters  ia 
America,  I  faw  they  were  in  the  fame  nature.  And  as  the 
great  profefiing  Jews  did  '  eat  up  God's  people  like  bread,' 
and  the  falfe  prophets  and  prieils  then  preached  peace  to 
people,  fo  long  as  they  '  put  into  their  mouths  and  fed 
'  thern  ;'  but  if  they  fed  them  not,  they  prepared  war  againft 
them  ;  '  they  ate  their  flefti  oft'  their  bones,  and  chopped 
'  them  for  the  caldron  ;'  fo  thefe  that  profefs  themieives 
chriftians  now  (both  priefts  and  profcffors)  and  are  not  in 
the  fame  power  and  Spirit  that  Chrift  and  the  holy  prophets 
and  apoilles  were  in,  are  in  the  fame  nature  that  the  old  pro- 
felBng  Jews  were  in,  and  are  men-caters  as  well  as  they. 
Thefe  itirred  up  perfecution,  and  fet  the  wicked  informers 
on  work;  fo  that  a  friend  could  hardly  fpeak  a  fcvr  words  in 
a  private  family,  before   thev   fat  down  to  eat,  but  foms 

Voi;,H.  Q 

# 


,22  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1670 

were  ready  to  inform  againfl  them.  A  particular  inftaiice 
of  which  1  have  heard,  as  followeth  : 

At  Droitwich,  ].  Cartwright  came  to  a  friend's  houfe; 
and  being  moved  of  the  Lord  to  fpeak  a  few  words  before  he 
fat  down^to  fupper,  there  came  an  informer,  and  flood  heark- 
enin.'J  under  the  window.  When  he  had  heard  the  friend 
fpcak.  hoping  to  get  fome  gain  to  himfelf,  he  went  and  in- 
formed ;  and  got  a  warrant  to  diftrain  the  friend's  goods, 
under  pretence  that  there  was  a  meeting  at  his  houfe : 
whereas  there  was  none  in  the  houfe  at  that  time  but  the 
friend,  the  man  of  the  houfe,  his  wife,  and  their  maid-fer- 
vant.  But  this  evil-minded  man,  as  he  came  back  with  his 
warrant  in  the  night,  fell  off  his  horfe,  and  broke  his  neck. 
So  there  was  a  wretched  end  of  a  wicked  informer,  who  hop- 
ed to  have  enriched  himfelf  by  fpoiling  friends ;  but  the 
Lord  prevented  him,  and  cut  him  off  in  his  wickednefs. 

Though  it  was  a  cruel,  bloody,  perfecuting  time,  yet  the 
Lord's  power  went  over  all,  his  everlafting  Seed  prevailed  ; 
and  friends  were  made  to  (land  firm  and  faithful  in  the  Lord's 
power.     Some  fober  people  of  other  profeffions  would  fay, 

*  If  friends  did  not  ftand,  the  nation  would  run  into  de- 
'  bauchery.' 

Though  by  reafon  of  my  weaknefs  I  could  not  travel 
amongft  friends  as  I  ufed  to  do ;  yet  in  the  motion  of  life  I 
lent  the  following  lines,  as  an  encouraging  teflimony  to 
ihcm  : 

'  My  dear  friends, 

*  ^  I  ^11 E  Seed  is  above  all.  In  it  walk;  in  which  ye  all 
'    X.     have  Hfe.     Be  not  amazed  at  the  weather;  for  always 

*  the  JLifl  fuffjred  by  the  unjuft,  but  the  juft  had  the  domi- 
'  nion.  All  along  ye  may  lee,  by  faith  the  mountains  were 
'  fubdued  ;  and  the  rage  of  the  wicked,  with  his  fiery  darts, 

*  were  quenched.     Though  the  waves  and  florms  be  high, 

*  yet   your  faith  will  keep  you,  fo  as  to  fwim  above  them; 

*  lor  they  are  but  for  a  time,  and  the  tiTith  is  without  time. 
*•  Therefore  keep  on  the  mountain  of  holinefs,  ye  who  arc 

*  led  to  it  by  the  light,  where  nothing  fhall  hurt.     Do  not 

*  think  that  any  thing  will  outlafl:  the  truth,  which  ftandeth 

*  furc  ;  and  is  over  that  which  is  out  of  the  truth.  For  the 
'  good  will   overcome  the  evil,  the   light   darknefs,  the  life 

*  dcatJi,    virtue    vice,    and    righteoufnefs    unrighteoufnefs. 

*  The  falfe  prophet  cannot  overcome  the  true  ;  but  the  true 


1670]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  123 

*  prophet,   Chrift,  will  overcome  all  the  falfe.     So  be  faith- 
'  ful,  and  live  in  that  which  doth  not  think  the  time  long. 

'  G.  F.- 

After  fome  time  it  pleafed  the  Lord  to  allay  the  heat  of 
this  violent  perfecution  ;  and  I  felt  in  fpirit  an  overcomincj 
of  the  fpirits  of  thofe  men-eaters  that  had  ftirred  it  up,  and 
carried  it  on  to  that  height  of  cruelty,  though  I  was  out- 
wardly very  weak.  I  plainly  felt,  and  thofe  friends  that 
were  with  me,  and  that  came  to  vifit  me,  took  notice,  that, 
as  the  perfecution  ceafed,  I  came  from  undc^r  the  travails  and 
fufferings  which  had  laid  with  fuch  weight  upon  me:  fo 
that  towards  the  fpring  I  began  to  recover,  and  to  walk  up 
and  down,  beyond  the  expeftation  of  many  ;  who  did  not 
think  I  could  ever  have  gone  abroad  again. 

Whilft  I  was  under  this  fpiritual  fufFering.  the  Hate  of 
the  New  Jerufalem,  which  comes  down  out  of  heaven,  was 
opened  to  me  ;  which  fome  carnal -minded  people  had  look- 
ed upon  to  be  like  an  outward  city,  dropped  out  of  the 
elements.  I  faw  the  beauty  and  glory  of  it,  the  length,  the 
breadth,  and  the  height  thereof,  all  in  complete  proportion. 
I  faw  that  all,  who  are  within  the  light  of  Chrift,  in  his 
faith,  which  he  is  the  author  of,  in  the  Spirit,  the  Holy 
Ghoft,  which  Chrift,  the  holy  Prophets  and  Apoftles  were 
in,  and  within  the  grace,  truth,  and  power  of  God,  which 
are  the  walls  of  the  city,  fuch  are  within  the  city,  are 
members  of  this  city,  and  have  right  to  eat  of  the  tree  of 
life,  v/hich  yields  her  fruit  every  month,  and  whofe  leaves 
are  for  the  healing  of  the  nations.  But  they  that  are  out  of 
the  grace,  truth,  light.  Spirit  and  power  of  God,  fuch  as 
refift  the  Holy  Ghoft,  quench,  vex,  and  grieve  the  Spirit 
of  God,  who  hate  the  Light,  turn  from  the  grace  of  God 
into  wantonnefs,  and  do  defpite  to  the  Spirit  of  Grace, 
fuch  as  have  erred  from  the  faith,  made  fliipwreck  of  it  and 
of  a  good  confcience,  who  abufe  the  power  of  God,  and 
defpife  prophefying,  revelation,  and  infpiration,  thefc  arc 
the  dogs  and  unbelievers  that  are  without  the  city.  Thefe 
make  up  the  great  city  Babylon,  confulion,  and  her  cage, 
the  power  of  darknefs  ;  and  the  evil  fpirit  of  error  llirrounds 
and  covers  them  over.  In  this  great  city  Babylon  are  the 
falfe  prophets,  in  the  falfe  power  and  filfe  fpirit;  the  beaft 
in  the  dragon's  power,  and  the  whore  that  is  gone  a  whor- 
ing from  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  from  Chrift  her  hufband. 
But  the  Lord's  power  is  over  all  this  pov.vr  of  darknefs,  ca>^c, 

q,  2 


124  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1670 

whore,  bcaft,  dragon,  falfe  prophets  and  their  worfhippers, 
who  are  for  the  lake  which  burns  with  fire.  Many  things 
more  did  I  fee  concerning  the  heavenly  city,  the  New 
Jeriifalem,  which  are  hard  to  be  uttered,  and  would  be 
hard  to  be  received.  But,  in  (hort,  this  holy  city  is  with- 
in the  light ;  and  all  that  are  within  the  light  are.  within  the 
city ;  the  gates  whereof  fland  open  all  the  day  (for  there  is 
no  night  there)  that  all  may  come  in.  Chrift's  blood  being 
fhed  for  every  man,  he  tailed  death  for  every  man,  and  en- 
lighteneth  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world  ;  and  his 
grace,  that  brings  falvation,  having  appeared  to  all  men, 
there  is  no  place  or  language  where  his  voice  may  not  be 
heard.  The  chnflians  in  the  primitive  times  were  called  by 
Chrifl  '  A  city  fet  upon  an  hill;'  they  were  alfo  called 
'  The  light  of  the  world,'  and,  '  The  fait  of  the  earth  ;' 
but  when  chriRians  loft  the  light,  (alt,  and  power  of  God, 
they  came  to  be  trodden  under  foot,  like  unfavoury  fait. 
Even  as  the  Jews,  who  while  they  kept  the  law  of  God 
were  preferved  above  all  nations,  but  when  they  turned 
their  backs  on  God  and  his  law  they  were  trodden  under 
foot  of  other  nations  ;  fo  Adam  and  Eve,  while  they  obeyed 
God,  were  kept  in  his  image  and  in  the  paradife  of  God, 
in  dominion  over  all  the  works  of  his  hands;  but  when 
they  difobcyed  God,  they  loft  the  image  of  God,  the  righte- 
oufnc fs  and  the  holinefs  in  which  they  were  made;  they 
loft  their  dominion,  were  driven  out  of  paradife,  fell  under 
the  dark  power  of  Satan,  and  came  under  the  chains  of 
daiknefs.  But  the  pronnfc  of  God  was,  '  That  the  Seed 
*  of  the  woman,  Chrift  Jefus,  ftiould  bruife  the  ferpent's 
'  head,'  ftiould  break  his  power  and  authority,  which  had 
led  into  captivity,  and  had  held  man  therein.  So  Chrift, 
who  is  the  firft  and  laft,  fets  man  free,  and  is  the  refurrec- 
tion  of  the  juft  and  unjuft,  the  Judge  of  quick  and  dead; 
and  they  that  are  in  him  are  inverted  with  everlafting  reft 
and  peace,  out  of  all  the  labours,  travails,  and  miferies  of 
Adam  in  the  fall.  So  he  is  fufticient  and  of  abihty  to  re- 
fturc  man  up  into  the  ftate  that  he  was  in  before  he  fell ; 
and  not  into  that  ftate  only,  but  up  into  that  ftate  alfo  that 
never  fell,  even  to  himliilf. 

I  had  alfo  in  this  time  a  groat  excrcife  and  travail  of  fpi- 
rit  upon  me,  concerning  the  po'.vers  and  rulers  of  thefe  na- 
tions, from  the  fenfc  I  had  of  the  many  tender  vifitations 
and  faithfid  warnings  given  ihcm,  and  of  their  great  abu^e 
thereof,  wiio  l:ad  refufcd  to  hear,  and  r<jeaed  the  counfcl  of 


1670]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  125 

the  Lord.  And  though  I  knew  friends  would  be  dear  of 
their  blood,  yet  I  could  not  but  mourn  over  them,  and  give 
forth  thefe  few  lines  concerning  them : 

*  T  TIT'E  have  given  them  a  vifitation,  have  faithfully 
'     V  V     warned  them,   have  declared  to  them  our  inno- 

*  cency  and  uprightnefs,  and  that  we  never  did  any  hurt  to 

*  the  king,  nor  to  any  of  his  people.      We  have  nothing  in 

*  our  hearts  but  love  and  good-will  to  him  and  his  people, 

*  and  defire  their  eternal  welfare.  But  if  they  v^-ill  not  hear, 
'  the  day  of  judgment,   forrow,  torment,  mifery,  and  fud- 

*  den   deftruftion   will  come   from    the   Lord   upon   them, 

*  that  have  been  the  caufe  of  the  fufFerings  of  many  thou- 
'  fands  of  fimple,  innocent,  harmlefs  people,  that  have  done 
'  them  no  hurt,  nor  have  had  any  ill-wiU  towards  him  or 

*  them ;  but  have  defired  their  eternal  good,  for  fhe  eternal 
'  truth's  fake.      Deftru6lion  will  come  upon  them  that  turn 

*  the  fword  backward.  Therefore  do  not  blind  your  eyes, 
'  the  Lord  will  bring  fwift  deftruclion  and  mifery  upon 
'  you.     Surely  he  will  do  it,  and  relieve  his  innocent  peo- 

*  pie,  who  have  groaned  for  deliverance  from  under  your 
'  oppreffion,  and  have  alio  groaned  for  your  deliverance  out 

*  of  wickednefs.     BleiTed  be  the  Lord  God,  that  he  hath  a 

*  people  in  this  nation  that  feek  the  good  of  all  men  upon 
'  the  face  of  the  earth ;  for  we  have  the  mind  of  the  Lord 

*  Jefus  Chrifl,  that  defires  not  the  death  of  a  fmner,  but  the 

*  falvation  and  good  of  all.     Blefled  be  the  name  of  the 

*  Lord  our  God  for  ever  ! 

'  G.  F.' 

While  I  continued  at  Enfield,  a  fenfe  came  upon  me  of 
an  hurt,  that  fometimes  happened  by  perfons  coming  under 
the  profeffion  of  truth  out  of  one  country  into  another,  to 
take  an  hufband  or  wife  amongft  friends,  where  they  were 
ftrangers,  and  it  was  not  known  whether  they  were  clear 
and  orderly  or  no.  And  it  opened  in  me  to  recommend 
the  following  method  to  friends,  for  preventing  luch  incon- 
veniencies. 

*  A  LL  friends  that  mnrr}',  whether  men  or  women,  if 
'  jl\.  they  come  out  of  another  nation,  ifland,  plantation, 

*  or  county,   let  them   bring  a  certificate   from   the  men's 

*  meeting  of  that  county.  Jiation,  ifland,  or  plantation  from 

*  which  thiFv  come,  to  the  men's  mcctijig  where  they  pro- 


,26  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [.eyo 

'  pofe  their  intention  of  marriage.  For  the  men's  meeting 
'  being  made  up  of  the  faithful,  this  will  flop  all  bad  and 
'  raw  fpirits  from  roving  up  and  down.  When  any  come 
'  with  a  certificate  or  letter  of  recommendation  from  one 

•  men's  meeting  to  another,  one  is  refrefhed  by  another, 
'  and  can  fet  their  hands  and  hearts  to  the  thing.     This 

*  will  prevent  a  great  deal  of  trouble.  And  then,  when  ye 
'  have  to  fay  to  them  in  the  power  of  God,  in  admonifhing 
'  and  inftru6Hng  them,  ye  are  left  to  the  power  and  Spirit 

*  of  God  to  do  It,  and  to  let  them  know  the  duty  of  mar- 
'  riage,  and  what  it  is ;  that  there  may  be  unity  and  con- 
'  cord  in  the  Spirit,  and  power,  light,  and  wifdom  of  God, 
'  throughout  all  the  men's  meetings  in  the  whole  world,  in 
'  one,  in  the  life.  Let  copies  of  this  be  fent  to  every  coun^ 
'  ty,  nation,  and  ifland,  where  friends  are,  that  all  things 

•  may   be  kept   holy,   pure,   and   righteous,   in   unity   and 

*  peace,  and  God  over  all  may  be  glorified  among  you,  his 
'  lot,  his  people,  and  inheritance,  his  adopted  fons  and 
'  daughters,  and  heirs  of  his  life.     So  no  more,  but  my  love 

•  in  that  which  changeth  not. 

«  G.  F.* 
*  The  14th  of  the  ill  month  1670-1.' 

^Vhen  I  had  recovered,  fo  that  I  could  walk  a  little  up 
and  down,  I  went  from  Enfield  to  Gerrard  Roberts's  again, 
and  hom  thence  to  the  women's  fchool  at  Shacklewell,  and 
I'o  to  the  meeting  at  Gracechurch-ftreet,  London ;  where, 
though  I  was  yet  but  weak,  the  Lord's  power  upheld  and 
enabled  me  to  declare  his  eternal  word  of  life. 

About  this  time  I  was  moved  to  pray  to  the  Lord,  a& 

followcth  : 

OLORD  God  Almighty!  profper  Truth,  and  pre- 
serve juftice  and  equity  in  the  land!  Bring  down 
'  all  injuflicc,  iniquity,  opprefTion,  falfehood,  cruelty,  and 
'  unmercifulncfs  in  the  land,  that  mercy  and  righteoufnefs 
'  may  llourilh  I 

"  O  Lord  God !  fet  up  and  eftablifh  verity,  and  preferve 
'  it  in  the  land!  Bringdown  in  the  land  all  debauchery, 
■  vice,  wlioredoms,  fornication,  and  this  raping  fpirit,  which 
=  caufeth  and  leadeth  people  to  have  no  efleem  of  thee,  O 

•  God  I  nor  then-  own  fouls  or  bodies,  nor  of  chriilianity, 

•  modt'fly,  or  humanity  ! 


ireyi]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  127 

*•'  O  Lord !  put  it  in  the  magiftrates  hearts  to  bring  down 
•*  all  this  ungodlinefs,  violence,  cruelty,  prophanenefs,  cuif- 
*'  ing  and  fwearing  !  and  to  put  down  all  thofe  whore-houfes 
*'  and  play-houfes,  which  corrupt  youth  and  people,  and 
*'  lead  them  from  thy  kingdom,  where  no  unclean  thing  can 
*'  enter,  neither  fhall  come !  Such  works  lead  people  to 
*'  hell.  Lord,  in  mercy  bring  down  all  thefe  things  in  the 
*'  nation,  to  flop  thy  wrath,  O  God !  from  coming  on  the 
«'land! 

«  G.  F." 

*'  This  prayer  was  wrote  the  17th 
*'  of  the  2d  month,  1671." 

I  mentioned  before,  that,  upon  notice  received  of  my 
wife's  being  had  to  prifon  again,  I  fent  two  of  her  daugh- 
ters to  the  king,  and  they  procured  his  order  to  the  fheriff 
of  Lancalhire  for  her  difcharge.  But  though  I  expe6led 
fhe  would  have  been  fet  at  liberty,  yet  this  violent  ftorm  of 
perfecution  coming  fuddenly  on,  the  perfecutors  there  found 
means  to  hold  her  flill  in  prifon.  But  now  the  perfecution 
a  little  cealing,  I  was  moved  to  fpeak  to  Martha  Fifher, 
and  another  woman  friend,  to  go  to  the  king  about  her 
liberty.  They  went  in  the  faith,  and  in  the  Lord's  power ; 
and  he  gave  them  favour  with  the  king,  fo  that  he  granted 
a  difcharge  under  the  broad  feal,  to  clear  both  her  and  her 
eftate  after  (he  had  been  ten  years  a  prifoner,  and  premu- 
nired;  the  like  whereof  was  fcarce  to  be  heard  in  England. 
I  fent  down  the  difcharge  forthwith  by  a  friend ;  by  whom 
alfo  I  wrote  to  her,  to  inform  her  how  to  get  it  delivered  to 
the  juflices,  and  alfo  to  acquaint  her,  that  it  was  upon  me 
from  the  Lord  to  go  beyond  fea,  to  vifit  the  plantations  in 
America,  and  therefore  defired  her  to  hafl;en  to  London,  as 
foon  as  lire  could  conveniently  after  fhe  had  obtained  her 
liberty,  becaufe  the  fhip  was  then  fitting  for  the  voyage. 
In  the  meantime  I  got  to  Kingflon,  and  flaid  at  John 
Rous's  till  my  wife  came  up,  and  then  began  to  prepare  for 
the  voyage.  But  the  yearly  meeting  being  near  at  hand,  I 
tarried  till  that  was  over.  Many  friends  came  up  to  it  horn 
all  parts  of  the  nation,  and  a  very  large  and  precious  meet- 
ing it  was;  for  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all,  and  his  glo- 
rious, everlaftingly-renowned  feed  of  life  was  exalted  above 
all. 

After  this  meeting  was  over,  and  I  had  finifhed  my  fer- 
vices  for  the  Lord  in  England,  the  fliip,  and  the  friends  that 


128  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1671 

intended  to  go  v/ith  me,  being  ready,  I  went  to  Gravefend 
the  12th  of  the  6th  month.  The  friends  that  were  bound 
for  the  \'oyage  with  me  went  down  to  the  fhip  the  ni;jht 
before.  Their  names  were,  Thomas  Bri|gs,  Wilham  Ed- 
mundfon,  John  Roufe,  John  Stubbs,  Solomon  Eccles, 
janu-s  Lancafter,  John  Cartwright,  Robert  Widders,  George 
Pattifo'n.  John  Hull,  Elizabeth  Hoqton,  and  Elizabeth  Mi- 
ers.  The  veird  we  were  to  go  in  was  a  yacht,  called  the 
Indu ft ry,  the  mailer's  name  Thomas  Forfter,  and  the  num- 
ber of  paflcngers  about  fifty.  I  lay  that  night  on  board ; 
but  moll  of  the  friends  lay  at  Gravefend.  Early  next 
morning,  the  paffengers,  and  thofe  friends  that  intended  to 
accompany  us  to  the  Downs,  being  come  on  board,  we 
took  our  leave  in  great  tendernefs  of  thofe  that  came  with 
us  to  Gravefend  only,  and  let  fail  about  fix  in  the  morning 
for  the  Downs.  Having  a  fair  wind,  we  outfailed  all  the 
fhips  that  were  outward-bound,  and  got  thither  by  the  even- 
ing. Some  of  us  went  afhore  that  night,  and  lodged  at 
Deal ;  where  we  underllood  an  officer  had  orders  from  the 
governor  to  take  6ur  n;.mes  in  writing,  which  he  did  the 
next  morning,  though  we  told  him  they  had  been  taken  at 
Gravefend.  In  the  afternoon,  the  wind  ferving,  I  took 
leave  of  my  wife  and  the  other  friends,  and  went  on  board. 
Before  we  could  fet  fail,  there  being  two  of  the  king's  fri- 
gates riding  in  the  Downs,  the  captain  of  one  of  them  fent 
his  prefs-mafler  on  board  us,  who  took  three  of  our  feamen. 
This  had  certainly  delayed,  if  not  wholly  prevented  our 
voyage,  had  not  the  captain  of  the  other  frigate,  being  in- 
formed of  the  Icakinefs  of  our  veffel,  and  the  length  of  our 
voyage,  in  compallion  and  much  civility,  fpared  us  two  of 
his  men.  Before  this  was  over,  an  officer  of  the  cuftom- 
houfc  came  on  board  to  perufe  packets  and  get  fees,  fo  that 
we  were  kept  from  failing  till  about  fun-fet;  during  which 
flop,  a  very  confiderable  number  of  merchantmen,  outward- 
bound,  vvere  got  feveral  leagues  before  us.  Being  clear  we 
let  fail  in  the  evening,  and  by  next  morning  overtook  part 
of  that  fleet  about'  the  height'  of  Dover.  We  foon  reached 
the  rtll,  and  in  a  little  time  left  them  all  behmd  us ;  for  our 
yatch  was  counted  a  very  fwift  failer.  But  fbe  was  very 
leaky,  fo  that  the  feamen  and  fome  of  the  paflengers  did  for 
the  mod  part  pump  day  and  night.  One  day  they  obferved 
that  m  two  hours  time  flic  fucked  in  fixteen  mches  of  water 
in  the  well. 


1671]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  129 

When  we  had  been  about  three  weeks  at  fea,  one  after- 
noon we  fpied  a  veiFel  about  four  leagues  ailern  of  us.  Our 
mafter  faid,  It  was  a  Sallee  man  of  war  who  feemed  to  give 
us  chace.     Our  mafler  faid,   '  Come,  let  us  go  to  fupper, 

*  and  when  it  grows  dark,  we  fhali  lofe  him.'  This  he 
fpoke  to  pacify  the  pafTengers,  fome  of  whom  began  to  be 
very  apprehenfive  of  the  danger.  But  friends  were  well  fa- 
tisfied,  having  faith  in  God,  and  no  fear  upon  their  fpirits. 
When  the  fun  was  down,  1  faw  the  fhip  out  of  my  cabin 
making  towards  us.  When  it  grew  dark,  we  altered  our 
courfe  to  mifs  her;  but  fhe  altered  alfo,  and  gained  upon 
us.  At  night  the  mafter  and  others  came  into  my  cabin, 
and  afked  me,  '  What  they  fhould  do  ?'     I  told  them,  '  I 

*  was  no  mariner  ;'  and  afked  them,  '  What  they  thought 

*  was  beft  to  do  ?'     They  faid,  '  There  were  but  two  ways, 

*  either   to  out-run    him,  or  tack  about  and  hold  the  fame 

*  courfe  we  were  going  before.'     I  told  them,   '  If  he  were  a 

*  thief,  they  might  be  fure  he  would  tack  about  too  ;  and  as 

*  for  out-running  him,  it  was  to  no  purpofe  to  talk  of  that, 

*  for  they  faw  he  failed  fafter  than  we.'  They  afked  me 
again,   '  What  they  fhould  do?'     '  For,'  they  faid,   '  if  the 

*  mariners   had  taken  Paul's  counfel,  they  had  not  come  to 

*  the  damage  they  did.'    I  anfvvered,  '  It  was  a  trial  of  faith, 

*  therefore  the  Lord  was  to  be  waited  on  for  counfel.'  So 
retiring  in   fpirit,  the  Lord  fliewed  me,  '  That  his  life  and 

*  power  was  placed   between  us  and  the  fhip   that  purfued 

*  us,'  I  told  this  to  the  mafter  and  the  reft,  and  that  the 
beft  way  was  to  tack  about  and  fteer  our  right  courfe.  I 
wifhed  them  alfo  to  put  out  ali  their  candles,  but  that  they 
fteered  by,  and  to  fpeak  to  all  the  paffengers  to  be  ftill  and 
quiet.  About  the  nth  hour  in  the  night  the  watch  called, 
and  faid,  '  They  were  juft  upon  us.'  That  difquieted  fome 
of  the  paffengers ;  whereupon  I  fat  up  in  my  cabin,  and 
looking  through  the  port-hole,  the  moon  being  not  quite 
down,  I  faw  them  very  near  us.  I  was  getting  up  to  go 
out  of  the  cabin  ;  but  remembering  the  word  of  the  Lord, 

*  That  his  life  and  power  was  placed  between  us  and  them,' 
I  lay  down  again.  The  mafter  and  fome  of  the  feamen 
came  again,  and  afked  me,  '  If  they  might  not  fteer  fuch  a 

*  point  ?'  I  told  them,  '  They  might  do  as  they  would.' 
By  this  time  the  moon  was  gone  quite  down,  a  frcfh  gale 
arofe,  and  the  Lord  hid  us  from  them ;  and  we  failed  brilkly 
on,  and  faw  them  no  more.  The  next  day,  being  the  firft 
day  of  the  week,  we  had  a  publick  meeting  in  the  Ihip..  as 

Vol.   IL  k 


i^o  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [167* 

we  ufually  had  on  that  day  throughout  the  voyage,  and  the 
Lord's  prefence  was  greatly  among  us.  I  defired  the  peo- 
ple, '  To  mind  the  mercies  of  the  Lord,  who  had  delivered 

*  them  ;  for  they  might  have  been  all  in  the  Turks  hands 
'  by  that  time,  had  not  the  Lord's  hand  faved  them.'  About 
a  week  after,  the  mailer  and  lome  of  the  feamen  endeavoured 
to  perfuade  the  paffengers,  it  was  not  a  Turkifli  pirate  that 
chafed  us,  but  a  merchant-man  going  to  the  Canaries. 
When    I  heard  of  it,    I  alked  them,   '  Why  then  did  they 

*  fpeak  fo  to  me  ?  Why  did  they  trouble  the  paffengers  ? 
'  And  why  did  they  tack  about  from  him,  and  alter  their 

*  courfe  ?'     I  told  them,  '  They  fhould  take  heed  of  flight- 

*  ing  the  mercies  of  God.' 

Afterwards,  while  we  were  at  Barbadoes,  came  in  a  mer- 
chant from  Sallee,  and  told  the  people,  '  That  one  of  the 
'  Sallee  men  of  war  faw  a  monftrous  yacht  at  fea,  the  greatefl 

*  that  ever  he  faw,  had  her  in  chace,  and  was  juft  upon  her; 
'  but  there  was  a  Spirit  in  her  that  he  could  not  take.'  This 
confirmed  us  in  the  belief,  that  it  was  a  Sallee-man  we  faw 
make  after  us;  and  that  it  was  the  Lord  that  delivered  us 
out  of  his  hands. 

I  was  not  fea-fick  during  the  voyage,  as  many  of  the  friends 
and  other  paffengers  were  ;  but  the  many  hurts  and  bruifes 
I  had  formerly  received,  and  the  infirmities  I  had  contracted 
in  England  by  extreme  cold  and  hardfliips,  that  I  had  un- 
dergone in  many  long  and  fore  imprilonments,  returned 
upon  me  at  fea ;  fo  that  I  was  very  ill  in  my  flomach,  and 
full  of  violent  pains  in  my  bones  and  limbs.  This  was 
after  I  had  been  at  fea  about  a  month  ;  for  about  three 
weeks  after  I  came  firfl:  to  fea,  I  fweat  abundantly,  chiefly 
my  head  ;  and  my  body  broke  out  in  pimples,  and  my 
legs  and  feet  fwclled  extremely,  fo  that  my  flockings  and 
flippers  could  not  be  drawn  on  without  difficulty  and  great 
pain.  On  a  fudden  the  fweating  ceafed,  fo  that  when  I 
came  into  the  hot  climate,  where  others  Iweat  mofl  freely,  I 
could  not  fweat  at  all ;  but  my  flefh  was  hot,  dry,  and 
burning,  and  that  which  before  broke  out  in  pimples  ftruck 
in  agam  to  my  ilomach  and  heart;  fo  that  I  was  very  ill, 
and  weak  beyond  cxprcffion.  Thus  I  continued  during 
the  reft  of  the  voyage,  which  was  about  a  month ;  for  we 
were  fcven  weeks  and  fomc  odd  days  at  fea. 

The  third  of  the  eighth  month,  early  in  the  mornino-,  wc 
difcovcred  the  ifland  of  Barbadoes  :  but  it  was  between  nine 
and  ten  at  night  ere  we  came  to  anchor  in  Carliflc-ba}-.    We 


t6yi2  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  131 

got  on  fhore  as  foon  as  we  could,  and  I  with  fome  others 
walked  to  a  friend's  houfe,  a  merchant,  whofe  name  was 
Richard  Forflall,  above  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  bridge. 
But  being  very  ill  and  weak,  I  was  fo  tired,  that  I  was  in  a 
manner  fpent  by  that  time  I  got  thither.  There  I  abode 
very  ill  feveral  days,  and  though  they  feveral  times  gave 
me  things  to  make  me  fweat,  they  could  not  efFeft  it.  What 
they  gave  me  did  rather  parch  and  dry  up  my  body,  and 
made  me  probably  worfe  than  otherwife  I  might  have  been. 
Thus  I  continued  about  three  weeks  after  I  landed,  having 
much  pain  in  my  bones,  joints,  and  whole  body,  fo  that  I 
could  hardly  get  any  reft ;  yet  I  was  pretty  cheary,  and  my 
fpirit  kept  above  it  all.  Neither  did  my  iilnefs  take  me  off 
from  the  fervice  of  truth ;  but  both  while  I  was  at  fea,  and 
after  I  came  to  Barbadoes,  before  I  was  able  to  travel  about, 
I  gave  forth  feveral  papers  (having  a  friend  to  write  for  me) 
fome  of  which  I  fent  by  the  firft  conveyance  for  England 
to  be  printed. 

After  I  had  refted  three  or  four  days  at  Richard  For- 
flail's,  where  many  friends  came  to  vifit  me,  John  Rous, 
having  borrowed  a  coach  of  colonel  Chamberlain,  came  to 
fetch  me  to  his  father  Thomas  Rous's.  But  it  was  late  ere 
we  could  get  thither,  and  little  or  no  reft  could  I  take  that 
night.  A  few  days  after,  colonel  Chamberlain,  who  had 
fo  kindly  lent  his  coach,  came  to  give  me  a  vifit,  and  car- 
ried himfelf  very  courteoufly  towards  me. 

Soon  after  I  came  into  the  ifland,  I  was  informed  of  a 
remarkable  paflage,  wherein  the  juftice  of  God  did  emi- 
nently appear:  It  was  thus.  There  was  a  young  man  of 
Barbadoes,  whofe  name  was  John  Drakes  (a  perfon  of  fome 
note  in  the  world's  account,  but  a  common  fwearer  and  a 
bad  man)  who,  when  he  was  in  London,  had  a  mind  to 
marry  a  friend's  daughter,  left  by  her  mother  very  young, 
with  a  confiderable  portion,  to  the  care  and  government  of 
feveral  friends,  whereof  I  was  one.  He  made  application 
to  me,  that  he  might  have  my  confent  to  marry  this  young 
maid.  I  told  him,  '  I  was  one  of  her  overfeers  appointed 
'  by  her  mother,  who  was  a  widow,  to  take  care  of  her; 
'  that  if  her  mother  had  intended  her  for  a  match  to  any 
'  man  of  another  profeffion,  fhe  would  have  difpofed  her 
'  accordingly ;  but  fhe  committed  her  to  us,  that  ihe  might 

*  be  trained  up  in  the  fear  of  the  Lord  ;   and  therefore   I 

*  fhould  betray  the  truft  repofed  in  me,  if  1  Ihould  confent 

*  that  he,  xvho  was  out  of  the  fear  of  God,  Ihould  marry 

R    2 


132  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1671 

'  her ;  which  I  would  not  do.'  When  he  faw  that  he  could 
not  obtain  his  defire,  he  returned  to  Barbadoes  with  great 
offence  of  mind  againft  me,  but  without  a  juft  caufe.  After- 
wards, when  he  heard  I  was  coming  to  Barbadoes,  he  fwore 
defperately,  and  threatened,   '  if  he  could  poflibly  procure 

*  it,  he  would  have  me  burned  to  death  when  I  came  there/ 
"Which  a  friend  hearing,  afked  him,   '  What  I  had  done  to 

*  him,  that  he  was  fo  violent  againft  me  ?'  He  would  not 
anfwer,  but  faid  again,  '  I'll  have  him  burned.'  Where- 
upon the  friend  replied,  '  Do  not  march  on  too  furioufly, 
'  left  thou  come  too  foon  to  thy  journey's  end.'  About  ten 
days  after,  he  was  ftruck.  with  a  violent  burning  fever,  of 
which  he  died ;  by  which  his  body  was  fo  fcorched,  that 
the  peop'e  (aid,  '  It  was  as  black  as  a  coal ;  and  three  days 
before  I  landed,  his  body  was  laid  in  the  duft.  This  was 
taken  notice  of  as  a  fad  example. 

While  I  continued  fo  weak  that  I  could  not  go  abroad  to 
meetings,  the  other  friends  that  came  over  with  me  beftirred 
themfelves  in  the  Lord's  work.  The  next  day  but  one  after 
we  came  on  fhore,  they  had  a  great  meeting  at  the  Bridge, 
and  after  that  feveral  meetings  in  different  parts  of  the  ifland; 
which  alarmed  the  people  of  all  forts,  fo  that  many  came  to 
our  meetings,  and  fome  of  the  chiefeft  rank.  For  they  had 
got  my  name,  underftanding  I  was  come  upon  the  ifland, 
and  expe£led  to  have  feen  me,  not  knowing  I  was  unable 
to  go  abroad.  And  indeed  my  weaknefs  continued  the  lon- 
ger on  mc,  by  reafon  that  my  fpirit  was  much  prelfed  down 
at  the  firft  with  the  filth  and  dirt,  the  unrighteoufnefs  of 
the  people,  which  lay  as  an  heavy  weight  and  load  upon 
me.  But  after  I  had  been  above  a  month  upon  the  ifland, 
my  fpirit  became  fomewhat  eafier,  I  began  to  recover  my 
health  and  ftrength,  and  get  abroad  among  friends.  In  the 
meantime,  having  an  opportunity  to  fend  to  England,  I 
wrote  to  friends  there,  to  let  them  know  how  it  was  with  me. 

'  Dear  friends, 
'  T    HAVE  been  very  weak  thcfe  feven  weeks  paft,  and 

*  X  not  able  to  write  myfelf.     My  defne  is  to  you,  and  for 

*  you  all,  that  ye  may  live  in  the  fear  pf  God,  and  in  love 

*  otic  unto  another,  and  be  fubjc6l  one  to  another  in  the 
^  fear  of  God.  I  have  been  weaker  in  my  body  than  ever 
<  I  was  in  my  life  that   I   remember,  yea,  my  pains  have 

*  been    fuch   as    I   cannot  cxprefs ;  yet  my  heart  and  fpirit 

*  are  ftrong.     I  have  hardly  fwcated'  thcfe  feven  weeks  paft, 


1671]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  133 

*  though  I  am  in  a  very  hot  dimate,  where  hardly  any  but 

*  are  well  nigh  continually  fweating ;  but  as  for  me,  my  old 

*  bruifes,  colds,  numbnefs,  and  pains  ftruck  inwardly,  even 
«  to  my  very  heart.      So  that  little  reft  I  have  taken,  and 

*  the  chiefeft  things  that  were  comfortable  to  my   ftomach 

*  were  a  little  water  and  powdered  ginger;  but  now  I  begin 

*  to  drink  a  little  beer  as  well  as  water,  and  fometimes  a  lit- 
'  tie  wine  and  water  mixed.     Great  pains   and  travails  I 

*  have  felt,  and  in  meafure  am  under;  but  it  is  well,  my 

*  life  is  over  all.  This  ifland  was  to  me  as  all  on  a  fire  ere 
'  I  came  to  it,  but  now  it  is  fomewhat  quenched  and  abated. 

*  I  came  in  weaknefs  amongft  thofe  that  are  ftrong,   and 

*  have  fo  continued ;  but  now  I  am  got  a  little  cheary,  and. 

*  over  it.     Many  friends,  and  fome  confiderable  perfons  of 

*  the  world,  have  been  with  me.    I  tired  out  my  body  much 

*  when  amongft  you  in  England  ;  it  is  the  Lord's  power  that 

*  helps  me ;  therefore  I  defire  you  all  to  prize  the  power  of 

*  the  Lord  and  his  truth.      I  was  but  weak  in  body  when  I 

*  left  you,   after   I   had  been  in   my  great  travail  amongft 

*  you;   but  after  that  it  ftruck  all  back  again  into  my  body, 

*  which  was  not  well  fettled  after  fuch  fore  travails  in  En- 

*  gland.  Then  I  was  fo  tired  at  fea,  that  I  could  not  reft, 
'  and  have  had  little  or  no  ftomach  a  long  time.  Since  I 
'  came  into  this  ifland,  my  life  hath  been  very  much  bur- 

*  dened ;  but  I  hope,  if  the  Lord  gives  me  ftrength  to  ma- 
'  nage  his  work,   I  fliall  work  thoroughly,  and  bring  things 

*  that  have  been  out  of  courfe  into  better  order.      So,  dear 

*  friends,  live  all  in  the  peaceable  truth,  and  in  the  love  of 
'  it,  ferving  the  Lord  in  newnefs  of  life ;  for  glorious  things 

*  and  precious  truths  have  been  manifefted  among  you  plen- 

*  tifully,  to  you  the  riches  of  the  kingdom  have  been  reach- 
'  ed.     I  have  been  almoft  a  month  in  this  ifland.  but  have 

*  not  been  able  to  go  abroad  or  ride  out ;   only  very  lately 

*  I  rode  out  twice,  a  quarter  of  a  mile  at  a  time,  which  wea- 

*  ried  me  much.     My  love  in  the  truth  is  to  you  all. 

'  G.  F.' 

Becaufe  I  was  not  well  able  to  travel,  the  friends  of  the 
ifland  concluded  to  have  their  men's  and  women's  meeting 
for  the  fervice  of  the  church  at  Thomas  Rous's,  where  I 
lay ;  by  which  means  I  was  prefent  at  each  of  their  meet- 
ings, and  had  very  good  fervice  for  the  Lord  in  both.  For 
they  had  need  of  information  in  many  things,  divers  difor- 
ders  being  crept  in  for  want  of  care  and  watchtulnefs.     '  1 


134  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1671 

*  exhorted  them,  more  efpecially  at  the  men's  meeting,  to 
'  be  careful  with  refpeft  to  marriages,  to  prevent  friends 
'  marrying  in  near  kindreds,  and  alfo  to  prevent  over-hafty 

*  proceedings  towards  fecond  marriages  after  the  death  of  a 
'  former  hufband  or  wife ;  advifmg  that  a  decent  regard  be 
'  had  in  fach  cafes  to  the  memory  of  the  deceafed  hufband 
'  or  wife.  As  to  friends  children  marrying  too  young,  at 
«  thirteen  or  fourteen  years  of  age,  I  fhewed  the  unfitnefs 
'  thereof,  and  the  inconveniencies  and  hurts  that  attend  fuch 
'  childifh  marriages.  I  admonifhed  them  to  purge  the  floor 
'  thoroughly,  and  to  fweep  their  houfes  very  clean,  that 
'  nothing  might  remain  that  would  defile ;  and  that  all 
'  fhould  take  care,  that  nothing  be  fpoken  out  of  their  meet- 
'  ings  to  the  blemilhing  or  defaming  one  of  another.  Concern- 
'  ing  regiflering  of  marriages,  births,  and  burials,  I  advifed 
"*  them  to  keep  exaft  records  of  each  in  diftin6l  books  for 
'  that  only  ufe;  and  alfo  to  record  in  a  book  for  that  pur- 
'  pofe,  the  condemnations  of  fuch  as  went  out  from  truth 
'  into  diforderly   pra6lices,  and  the  repentance  and  reftora- 

*  tion  of  fuch  as  returned  again.  I  recommended  to  their 
'  care  the  providing  of  convenient  burying-places  for  friends, 
'  which  in  fome  parts   were  yet  wanting.      Some  dire6lions 

*  alfo  I  gave  them  concerning  wills,  and  the  ordering  of  le- 
'  gacies  left  by  friends  for  publick  ufes,  and  other  things  re- 

*  lating  to  the  affairs  of  the  church.  Refpefting  their  ne- 
'  groes,  I  dcfired  them  to  endeavour  to  train  them  up  in  the 
'  fear  of  God,  as  well  thofe  that  were  bought  with  their 
'  money,  as  them   that  were  born  in  their  families,  that  all 

*  might  come  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Lord  ;  that  fo,  with 
'  Jofhua,  every  mafter  of  a  family  might  fay,  "  As  for  ine 
"  and  my  houfe,  we  will  ferve  the  Lord."  I  defired  alio, 
'  that  they   would  caufc  their  ovcrfeers  to  deal  mildly  and 

*  gently  with  their  negroes,  and  not  ufe  cruelty  towards 
'  them,  as  the  manner  of  fome  hath  been  and  is  ;  and  that 
'  after  certain  years  of  fervitude  they  Ihouldmake  them  free.' 
Many  fweet  and  precious  things  were  opened  in  thefe  meet- 
ings, by  the  Spirit  and  in  the  power  of  the  Lord,  to  the 
edif)'ing,  conrirming,  and  building  up  of  friends  in  the 
faith  and  holy  order  of  the  gofpcl. 

Alier  thefe  meetings,  the  vefTel  bound  for  England  not 
being  oont,  I  was  moved  to  write  another  epiftle  to  friends 
kheri: ;  the  copy  whereof  follows  : 


1671]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  135 

*  Tr\EAR  friends  and  brethren,  to  whom  is  my  love  in 

*  -L/   that  which  never  changeth,   but  remains  in   glory, 

*  which  is  over  all,  the  top  and  corner-ftone.      In  this  all 

*  have  peace  and  life,  as  ye  dwell  in  the  blefled  feed,  where- 

*  in  all  is  blefled,  over  that  which  brought  the  curfe ;  where 

*  all  fhortnefs,  narrownefs  of  fpirit,  brittlenefs,  and  peevifh- 

*  nefs   is.     Therefore  keep   the   holy  order  of  the   gofpel. 

*  Keep  in  this  blelTed  feed,  where  all  may  be  kept  in  tem- 

*  perance,  in  patience,  in  love,  in  meeknefs,  in  righteouf- 

*  nefs  and  holinefs,  and  in  peace ;  in  which  the  Lord  may 
'  be  feen  amongfl  you,  and  no  way  difhonoured,  but  glorified 

*  by  you  all.      In  all  your  meetings,  in  cities,  towns,  and 

*  countries,  men's  meetings,  women's  meetings,  and  others, 

*  let  righteoufnefs  flow  among  you,   the  holy  truth  be  up- 

*  permofl;,   the  pure  Spirit  your  guide  and  leader,  and  the 

*  holy  wifdom  from  above  your  orderer,  that  is  pure,  gentle, 
'  and  eafy  to  be  intreated.      Keep  in  the  religion  that  pre- 

*  ferves  from  the  fpots  of  the  world,  which  is  pure  and  un- 

*  defiled  in  God's  fight.  Keep  in  the  pure  and  holy  wor- 
'  fliip,  in  which  the  pure  and  holy  God  is  worfliipped,  viz. 
'  in  the  Spirit,  and  in  the  truth,  which  the  devil  is  out  of, 

*  who  is  the  author  of  all  unholinefs,  and  of  that  which  dif- 

*  honours  God.     Be  tender  of  God's  glory,  of  his  honour, 

*  and  of  his  bleffed  and  holy  name,  in  which  ye  are  gathered. 

*  All  who  profefs  the  truth,  fee  that  ye  walk  in  it,  in  right- 
'  eoulnefs,  holinefs,  and  godlinels ;  for  "  holincis  becomes 
"  the  houfe  of  God,  the  houfehold  of  faith."  That  which 
'  becomes  God's  houfe,   God  loves.      He  loves  riohteouf- 

*  nefs.    That  is  the  ornament  which  becomes  his  houfe  and 

*  all  his  family.     Therefore  fee  that  righteoufnefs  run  down 

*  in  all  your  aflemblies,  that  it  flow,  to  drive  away  all  un- 
'  righteoufnefs.  This  prefcrves  your  peace  with  God  ;  for 
'  in  righteoufnefs  ye  all  have  peace  with  the  righteous  God 

*  of  peace,  and  one  with  another.     Every  one  that  bears  the 

*  name  of  the  Anointed,  that  high  title  of  being  a  Chriftian. 

*  named  after  the  Heavenly  Man,  fee  that  ve  be  in  tlic  di- 

*  vine  nature  made  conformable  unto  his  image,  even  the 
'  image  of  the  Heavenly  Divine  Man,  who  was  before  that 

*  image  which  Adam  and  Eve  got  from  Satan  in  the  fall ; 
'  fo  that  in  none  of  you  that  follen  image  may  appear,  but 

*  his  image,  and  you  made  conformable  unto  him.      Hero 

*  tranflation  is  flievved  forth  in  life  and  converfation,  not  in- 

*  words  only;  yea,  and  converfion  and  repentance,  which 

*  is  a  change  of  the  nature^  of  the  mind,  and  of  ths  heart, 


136  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1671 

'  of  the  fpirit  and  afFeftions,  which  have  been  below,  and 
'  come  to  be  let  above ;  and  fo  receive  the  things  that  are 
'  from  above,  and  have  the  converfation  in  heaven,  not  that 
'  converfation  which  is  according  to  the  power  of  the  prince 
'  of  the  air,  that  now  rules  in  the  difobedient.  So  be  faith- 
'  ful ;  this  is  the  word  of  the  Lord  God  unto  you  all.  See, 
'  that  godHnefs,  holinefs,  righteoufnefs,  truth,  and  virtue, 
'  the  fruits  of  the  good  Spirit,  flow  over  the  bad  and  its 
'  fruits,  that  ye  may  anfwer  that  which  is  of  God  in  all  ; 
'  for  your  Heavenly  Father  is  glorified,  in  that  you  bring 
'  forth  much  fruit.     Therefore  ye,  who  are  plants  of  his 

*  planting,  his  trees  of  righteoufnefs,  fee  that  every  tree  be 
'full  of  fruit.  Keep  in  true  humility,  and  in  the  true  love 
'  of  God,  which  doth  edify  his  body,  that  the  true  nourifli- 
'  ment  from  the  head,  the  refrefhings,  fprings,  and  rivers  of 

*  water,  and  bread  of  life  may  be  plenteoufly  known  and 
'  felt  amongft  you,  that  fo  praifes  may  afcend  to  God.  Be 
'  faithful  to  the  Lord  God,  and  juft  and  true  in  all  your 
'  dealings  and  doings  with  and  towards  men.     Be  not  negh- 

*  gent  in  your  men's  meetings  to  admonilh,  exhort,  and  re- 
'  prove,  m  the  fpirit  of  love  and  of  meeknefs,  and  to  feek 
'  that  which  is  loft,  and  to  bring  back  again  that  which  hath 

*  been   driven   away.       Let  all   minds,    fpirits,  fouls,  and 

*  hearts,  be  bended  down  under  the  yoke  of  Chrift  Jefus, 

*  the  power  of  God.  Much  I  could  write,  but  am  weak, 
'  and  have  been  rnoftly  fmce  I  left  you.     Burdens  and  tra- 

*  vails  I  have  been  under,  and  gone  through  many  ways  ; 
'  but  it  is  well.  The  Lord  Almighty  knows  my  work, 
'  which  he  hath  fent  me  forth  to  do  by  his  everlafting  arm 
'  and  power,  which  is  from  everlafting  to  everlafting.  Blef- 
'  fed  be  his  holy  name,  which  I  am  in,  and  in  which  my 
'  love  is  to  you  all. 

'  G.  F.' 

After  I  was  able  to  go  abroad,  and  had  been  a  little 
amongft  friends,  I  went  to  vifit  the  governor ;  Lewis  Mor- 
ricc,  Thomas  Roufe,  and  fome  other  friends  being  with 
me.  He  received  us  very  civilly,  and  treated  us  very 
kmdly  ;  making  us  dine  with  him,  and  keeping  us  moft 
part  of  the  day  before  he  let  us  go  away. 

The  fame  week  I  went  to  Bridge  Town.  There  was 
to  be  a  general  meeting  of  friends  that  week ;  and  the  vifit 
I  had  made  to  the  governor,  and  the  kind  reception  I  had 
with  him,  being  generally  known  to  the  officers,  civil  and 


1671]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  137 

military,  many  came  to  this  meeting  from  mod  parts  of 
the  ifland,  and  thofe  not  of  the  meaneft  rank  ;  divers  of 
them  being  judges  or  juftices,  colonels  or  captains;  fo  that 
a  very  great  meeting  we  had  of  friends  and  others.  The 
Lord's  blelFed  power  was  plentifully  with  us,  and  though  I 
was  fomewhat  ftraitened  for  time,  three  other  friends  having 
fpoken  before  me,  the  Lord  opened  things  through  me  to 
the  general  and  great  fatisfaftion  of  thofe  prefent.  Colonel 
Lewis  Morrice  came  to  this  meeting,  and  with  him  a  judge 
in  the  country,  whofe  name  was  Ralph  Fretwell ;  who  was 
well  fatisfied,  and  received  the  truth. 

Paul  Gwin,  a  jangling  Baptift,  came  into  the  meeting, 
and  afked  me,  '  How  I  Ipelt  Cain  ?  and  whether  I  had  the 
'  fame  fpirit  as  the  apoflles  had  ?'  I  told  him.  Yes,  And 
he  bade  the  judge  take  notice  of  it.  I  told  him,  '  He  that 
*  had  not  a  meafure  of  the  fame  Holy  Ghoft  as  the  apoftles 
'  had,  was  pofleffed  with  an  unclean  fpirit.'  And  then  he 
went  his  way. 

1  went  home  with  Lewis  Morrice  that  night,  being  about 
nine  or  ten  miles;  going  part  of  the  way  by  boat,  the  reft 
on  horfeback.  The  place  where  his  plantation  was  I  thought 
to  be  the  fineft  air  of  the  ifland.  Next  day  Thomas  Briggs 
and  William  Edmundfon  came  to  fee  me,  they  intending 
to  leave  the  ifland  the  day  following,  and  to  go  upon  the 
Lord's  fervice  to  Antigua  and  Nevis.  Lewis  Morrice  went 
with  them.  At  Antigua  they  had  feveral  good  meetings, 
to  which  there  was  a  great  refort  of  people ;  and  many  were 
convinced.  But  when  they  went  to  Nevis,  the  governor, 
an  old  perfecutor,  fent  foldiers  on  board  the  veflel,  to  fl;op 
them,  and  would  not  fuffer  them  to  land.  Wherefore, 
after  friends  of  the  place  had  been  on  board  the  veflTel 
with  them,  and  they  had  been  fweetly  refreflied  together,  in 
feeling  the  Lord's  power  and  prefence  amongft  them,  they 
returned  to  Antigua ;  where  having  ftaid  awhile  longer, 
they  came  again  to  Barbadoes ;  Thomas  Briggs  being  very 
weak  and  ill. 

Of  the  other  friends  that  came  over  with  me,  James  Lan- 
cafter,  John  Cartwright,  and  George  Pattifon,  were  gone 
fome  time  before  to  Jamaica,  and  others  to  other  places ; 
fo  that  few  remained  m  Barbadoes  with  me.  We  had  ma- 
ny great  and  precious  meetings,  both  for  worftiip,  and  for 
the  affairs  of  the  church ;  to  the  former  of  which  many  of 
other  focieties  came.  At  one  of  thefe  meetings,  colonel 
Lyne,  a  fober  perfon,  was  fo  well  fatisfied  with  what  1  de- 

Vol.  IL  s 


13.8  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1671 

clared,  that  he  faid,  '  Now  I  can  gainfay  fuch  as  I  have 

*  heard  fpeak  evil  of  you ;  who  fay  you  do  not  own  Chrift, 

*  nor  that  he  died  :  whereas  I  perceive  you  exah  Chrift  in  all 

*  his  offices,  beyond  what  I  have  ever  heard  before.'  This 
man,  obferving  one  to  take  in  writing  the  heads  of  what  I 
delivered,  defired  him  to  let  him  have  a  copy  of  it;  and 
ftaid  another  day  with  us  before  he  went  away  ;  fo  great  a 
love  was  raifed  in  him  to  the  truth.  A  very  great  convince- 
ment  there  was  in  moft  parts  of  the  ifland;  which  made  the 
prieft  and  fome  profeflbrs  fret  and  rage.  Our  meetings 
were  very  large,  and  free  from  difturbance  from  the  govern- 
ment ;  though  the  envious  priefts  and  fome  profeflbrs  en- 
deavoured to  ftir  up  the  magiftrates  againft  us.  When  they 
found  they  could  not  prevail  that  way,  fome  Baptifts  came 
to  the  meeting  at  the  town,  which  was  full  of  people  of  fe- 
veral  ranks  and  qualities.  A  great  company  came  with 
them ;  and  they  brought  a  flanderous  paper  written  by 
John  Pennyman,  with  which  they  made  a  great  noife. 
But  the  Lord  gave  me  wifdom  and  utterance  to  anfwer 
their  cavils ;  fo  that  the  auditory  generally  received  fatisfac- 
tion,  and  thofe  quarrelfome  profeflbrs  loft  ground.  When 
they  had  wearied  themfelves  with  clamour,  they  went  away; 
but  the  people  ftaying,  the  meeting  was  continued ;  the 
things  they  cavilled  about  were  further  opened  and  cleared, 
and  the  life  and  power  of  God  came  over  all.  But  the 
rage  and  envy  in  our  adverfaries  did  not  ceafe ;  they  endea- 
voured to  defame  friends  with  many  falfe  and  fcandalous 
reports,  which  they  fpread  through  the  ifland.  Whereupon 
I,  with  fome  other  friends,  drew  up  a  paper,  to  go  forth  in 
the  name  of  the  people  called  Quakers,  for  the  clearing 
truth  and  friends  from  thofe  falfe  reports.  It  was  after  this 
manner : 

'  For  the  governor  of  Barbadoes,  with  his  council  and 
'  aflembly,  and  all  otht  rs  in  power,  both  civil  and  mi- 
*  litary,  in  this  ifland;  from  the  people  called  Quakers. 

'  '\A7'^^^^^'^^^  many  fcandalous  lies  and  flanders  have 

*  V  V  been  caft  upon  us,  to  render  us  odious;  as  that 
•'  We  de  y  God.  Chrift  Jefus,  and  the  fcriptures  of  truth," 

♦  &c.  This  is  to  inform  you,  That  all  our  books  and  de- 
'  ciarations,  which  for  thcfe  many  years  have  been  publifh- 

•  ed  to  the  world,  clearly  t'-.My  the  contrary.  Yet,  for 
'  your  fatisfaftion,  we  now  plainly  and  fincercly  declare, 


i67i]  GEORGE    FOX»s    JOURNAL.  139 

'  That  we  own  and  believe  in  the  only  Wife,  Omnipotent, 

*  and  Everlafting  God,  the  Creator  of  all  things  in  heaven 

*  and  earth,  and  the  Preferver  of  all  that  he  hath  made ; 

*  who  is    God  over  all,  bleffed  for  ever;  to  whom  be  all 

*  honour,  glory,  dominion,  praife  and    thankfgiving,   both 

*  now  and  for  evermore !   And  we  own  and  believe  in  jefus 

*  Chrift,  his  beloved  and  only  begotten  Son,  in  whom  he 

*  is  well  pleafed ;  who  was  conceived  by  the  Holy  Ghoft, 

*  and  born  of  the  Virgin  Mary ;  in  whom  we  have  redemp- 

*  tion  through  his  blood,  even  the  forgivenefs  of  fins ;  who 
'  is  the  exprefs  image  of  the  Invifible  God,  the  firft-born 

*  of  every  creature,  by  whom  were  all  things  created  that 

*  are  in  heaven  and  in  earth,  vifible  and  invifible,  whether 
'  they  be  thrones,  dominions,  principalities,  or  powers;  all 

*  things  were  created  by  him.     And  we  own  and  believe 

*  that  he  was  made  a  facrifice  for  fin,  who  knew  no  fin, 
'  neither  was  guile  found  in  his  mouth  ;  that  he  was  cruci- 

*  fied  for  us  in  the  flefh,  without  the  gates  of  Jerufalem  ; 

*  and  that  he  was  buried,  and  rofe  again   the  third  day  by 

*  the  power  of  his  Father,  for  our  jullification ;  and  that  he 

*  afcended  up  into  heaven,   and   now   fitteth   at  the  right 

*  hand  of  God.     This  Jefus,  who  was  the  foundation  of  the 

*  holy  prophets  and  apoftles,  is  our  foundation  ;  and  we  be- 

*  lieve  there  is  no  other  foundation  to  be  laid  but  that  which 

*  is  laid,  even  Chrifl  Jefus  :  who  tafted  death  for  every  man, 

*  fhed  his  blood  for  all  men,  is  the  propitiation  for  our  fins, 
'  and  not  for  ours   only,  but  alfo  for  the  fins  of  the  whole 

*  world  :  according  as  John  the  Baptift  teftified  of  him,  when 

*  he  faid,  "  Behold  the  Lamb  of  God,  that  takelh  away  the 
*'  lins  of  the  world,"  John  i,  29.      We  believe  that  he  alone 

*  is  our  Redeemer  and  Saviour,  the  captain  of  our  falvation, 

*  who  faves  us  from  (in,  as  well  as  from  hell  and  the  wrath 
'  to  come,  and  deftroys  the  devil  and  his  works ;    he  is  the 

*  Seed  of  the  woman  that  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head,  to  wit, 

*  Chrift  Jefus,    the   Alpha  and  Omega,  the   Firfl  and   the 

*  Laft.      He  is   (as   the  fcriptures  of  truth  fay  of  him)  our 

*  wifdom,  righteoufnefs,  juftification,  and  redemption  ;  nei- 

*  ther  is  there  falvation   in  any  other,   for  there  is  no  other 

*  name  under  heaven  given  among  men,  whereby  we  may 
'  be  faved.      He  alone  is  the  Shepherd  and  Bifhop  of  our 

*  fouls  :  he  is  our  Prophet,  whom  Mofcs  long  fince  teftifi- 
'  ed  of,  faying,  "  A  prophet  fliall  the  Lord  your  God  raife 
"  up  unto  you  of  your  brethren,  like  unto  mc ;  him  Ihall 
"  ye  hear  in  all  things,  whatfoever  he  fhall  fay  unto  you: 

s  2 


140  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1671 

•'  and  it  fhall  come  to  pafs,  that  every  foul  that  will  not 
*'  hear  that  prophet  fhall  be  deftroyed  from  among  the  peo- 
*'  pie,"  Ads  ii.  22,  23.  He  is  now  come  in  Spirit,  "  and 
"  hath  given  us  an  underflanding,  that  we  know  him  that 
"  is  true."     He  rules  in  our  hearts  by  his  law  of  love  and 

*  life,  and  makes  us   free  from  the   law   of  fm  and   death. 

*  We   have  no  life,  but  by  him;    for  he  is  the  quickening 

*  Spirit,  the  fecond  Adam,  the  Lord  from  heaven,  by  whole 

*  blood  we  are  cleanfed,  and  our  confciences  fprinkled  from 

*  dead  works,  to  ferve  the  living   God.      He  is  our  Media- 

*  tor,   who   makes  peace  and  reconciliation    between    God 

*  offended  and   us  offending ;  he  being  the  Oath  of  God, 

*  the  new  covenant  of  light,  life,  grace,  and  peace,  the  au- 
'  thor  and   finifher  of  our  faith.      This  Lord  Jefus  Chrill, 

*  the   heavenly   man,    the   Emanuel,   God  with  us,   we  all 

*  own  and  believe  in ;  he  whom  the  high-prieft  raged  againft, 

*  and   faid,   he  had  fpoken  blafphemy ;  whom   the  priefts 

*  and  elders  of  the  Jews  took  counfcl  together  againft,  and 

*  put  to  death ;  the  fame  whom  Judas  betrayed  for  thirty 

*  pieces  of  filver,  which  the  priefts  gave  him  as  a  reward  for 

*  his  treafon ;  who  alfo  gave  large  money  to  the  foldiers  to 

*  broach  an  horrible  lie,  namely,  "  That  his  difciples  came 
*'  and  ftole   him  away  by  night  whilft  they    flept."     After 

*  he.was  rifen  from  the  dead,  the  hiftory  of  the  A6ls  of  the 

*  apoftles  fets  forth  how  the  chief  priefts   and  elders  perfe- 

*  cuted  the  difciples  of  this  Jefus,  for  preaching  Chrift  and 
'  his  refurreftion.     This,  we  fay,  is  that  Lord  Jefus  Chrift, 

*  whom  we  own  to  be  our  life  and  falvation. 

'  Concerning  the  holy   fcriptures,   we  believe  they  were 
'  given  forth  by   the  holy  Spirit  of  God.  through  the  holy 

*  men  of  God,  who  (as  the  fcripture  itfelf  declares,  2  Pet.  i. 

*  21.)  "  fpoke  as  they  were  moved  by  the  Holy  Ghoft."  We 
'  believe  they  are  to  be  read,  believed,  and  fulfilled,  (he  that 

*  fulfils   them  is   Chrift);    and  they  are  "  profitable  for  re- 

*  proof,  for  coneclion,  and  for  inftru6lion  in  righteoufnefs, 
"  that  the  man  of  God  may  be  perfc6t,  throughly  furniftied 
•'  unto  all  good  works,"  2  Tim.  3.  19.  and  are  able  to 
"  make  wife  unto  falvation,  through  faith  in  Chrift  Jefus." 
'  We  bcheve  the  holy  fcriptures  are  the  words  of  God;  for 

*  it  is  faid  in  Exodus  20-  1.  '"  God  fpake  all  thefe  words, 
"  faying,"  <S:c.  meaning  the  ten  commandments  given  forth 
'  upon  mount  Sinai.  And  in  Rev.  xxii.  18.  faith  John, 
"  I  tefiify  to  every  man  that  heareth  the  words  of  the  pro- 
''  phecy  of  this  book,  if  any  man  addeth  unto  tliefe,  and  if 


1671]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  141 

"  any  man  Ihall  take  away  from  the  words  of  the  book  of 
"  this  prophecy"  (not  the  Word)  &c.  So  in  Luke  1.  20. 
*'  Becaufe  thou  believefl  not  my  words."     And  in  John  v. 

*  47.   XV.    7.  xiv.    23.    xii.    47.      So  that  we  call  the  holy 

*  fcriptures,  as  Chrift,  the  apoftles,    and   holy  men  of  God 

*  called  them,  viz.  the  words  of  God. 

'  Another  (lander  they  have  caft  upon  us,  is,   "  That  we 
"  teach  the  negroes  to  rebel :"  a  thing  we  utterly  abhor  in 

*  our  hearts,  the  Lord  knows  it,  who  is  the  fearcher  of  all 
'  hearts,   and  knows  all  things,   and  can  teftify  for  us,   that 

*  this  is  a  moft  abominable  untruth.     That  which  we  have 

*  fpokefe  to  them,  is  To  exhort  and  admonifh  them  to  be 
'  fober,  to  fear  God,  to  love  their  maflers  and  miftrelFes,  to 

*  be  faithful  and  diligent  in  their  fervice  and  bufmefs,  and 

*  then  their  maflers  and  overfeers  would  love  them,  and 
'  deal  kindly  and  gently  with  them  ;  alfo  that  they  fhould 

*  not  beat  their  wives,  nor  the  wives  their  hufbands  ;  neither 
'  fhould   the  men  have  many  wives ;    that  they  fliould  not 

*  fteal,  nor  be  drunk,  nor  commit  adultery,  nor  fornication, 

*  nor  curfe,  fwear,  nor  lie,  nor  give  bad  words  to  one  ano- 
'  ther,  nor  to  any  one  elfe  ;  for  there  is  fomething  in  them 
'  that  tells  them  they  fhould  not  praft ife  thefe  nor  any  othef 
'  evils.      But  if  they  notwithflanding  fhould  do  them,  then 

*  we  let  them  know  there  are  but  two  ways,   the  one  that 

*  leads  to  heaven,   where  the  righteous   go;    and  the  other 

*  that  leads    to   hell,    where   the    wicked    and    debauched, 

*  whoremongers,  adulterers,  murderers,    and  liars  go.      To 

*  the  one  the  Lord  will  fay,  "  Come,  ye  bleffed  of  my  Fa- 
"'  ther,  inherit  the  kingdom  prepared  for  you  from  the 
"  foundation  of  the  world  ;  to  the  other,  "  Depart,  yecurf- 
"  ed,  into  everlafting  fire,  prepared  for  the  devil  and  his 
"  angels  :"  fo  the  wicked  go  into  "  everlafting  punifhment, 
"  but  the  righteous  into  life  eternal,"  Mat.  xxv.      Confider, 

*  friends,  it  is  no  tranfgreftion  for  a  mafter  of  a  family  to  in- 
'  flruft  his  family  himfelf,  or  for  others  to  do  it  in  his  be^ 
'  half;  but  rather  it  is  a  very  great  duty  incumbent  upon 

*  them.  Abraham  and  Jofliua  did  fo :  of  the  firft.  the 
'  Lord  faid.  Gen.  xviii.  ig.  ''I  know  that  Abraham  will 
*'  command  his  children,  and  his  houfehold  after  him  ;  and 
"  they  fhall  keep  the  way  of  the  Lord,  to  do  juftice  and 
•'  judgment,  that  the  Lord  may  bring  upon  Abraham  the 
"  things  that  he  hath  fpoken  of  him."     And  the  latter  faid, 

*  Jofli.  xxiv.  15.  "  Choofe  ye  this  day  whom  ye  will  fervc 
•'•  — But  as  for  me  and  my  houfe,  wc  will  ferve  the   Lord." 


J42  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1671 

*  We  declare,  that  we  efteem  it  a  duty  incumbent  on  us  to 

*  pray  with  and  for,  to  teach,  inftruft,  and  admonilh  thofe 

*  in  and  belonging  to  our  families  ;  this  being  a  command 

*  of  the  Lord,  difobedience  thereunto  will  provoke  his  dif- 
'  pleafure  ;  as  may  be  feen  in  Jer.  x.  25.  "  Pour  out  thy 
*'  fury  upon  the  heathen  that  know  thee  not,  and  upon  the 
"  families  that  call  not  upon  thy  name."  Negroes,  Taw- 
'  nies,  Indians,  make  up  a  very  great  part  of  the  families  in 
'  this  ifland  ;  for  whom  an  account  will  be  required  by  him 

*  who  comes  to  judge  both  quick  and  dead  at  the  great  day 
'  of  judgment,  when  every  one  fhall  be  "rewarded  accord- 
"  ing  to  the  deeds  done  in  the  body,  whether  they  be  good, 
'•  or  whether  they  be  evil :"  at  that  day,  we  fay,  of  the  refur- 

*  re6lion  both  of  the  good  and  of  the  bad,  and  of  the  juft 

*  and  the  unjuft,  when  "  the  Lord  Jefus  fhall  be  revealed 
"  from  heaven  with  his  mighty  angels,  in  flaming  fire,  taking 
*'  vengeance  on  them  that  know  not  God,  and  obey  not  the 
"  gofpel  of  our  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  who  (hall  be  punifhed 
*'  witheverlafting  deftruftion  from  the  prefence  of  the  Lord, 
"  and  from  the  glory  of  his  power,  when  he  fhall  come  to 
"  be  glorified  in  his  faints,  and  admired  in  all  them  that  be- 
*'  lieve  in  that  day,"  2  Theff.  i.  8,  &c.  See  alfo  2  Pet.  iii. 

This  wicked  flander  (of  our  endeavouring  to  make  the 
Negroes  rebel)  our  adverfaries  took  occafion  to  raife,  from 
our  having  lome  meetings  amongft  the  Negroes ;  for  we 
had  feveral  meetings  with  them  in  divers  plantations,  where- 
in wc  exhorted  them  to  juftice,  fobriety,  temperance,  cha- 
flity,  and  piety,  and  to  be  fubjeft  to  their  mafters  and 
governors.  Which  was  altogether  contrary  to  what  our 
envious  adverfaries  malicioufly  fuggefled  againft  us. 

As  I  had  been  to  vifit  the  governor,  as  foon  as  I  was 
well  able,  after  I  came  thither;  fo  when  I  was  at  Thomas 
Roufe's,  the  governor  came  to  fee  me,  carrying  himfelf  very 
courtcoufly. 

Having  been  three  months  or  more  in  Barbadoes,  and 
having  vifited  friends,  thoroughly  fettled  meetings,  and  dif- 
patched  the  fervice  for  which  the  Lord  brought  me  thither ; 
I  fek  my  fpirit  clear  of  that  ifland,  and  found  drawings  to 
Jamaica.  Which  when  I  had  communicated  to  friends,  I 
acquainted  the  governor  alfo,  and  divers  of  his  council, 
with  my  intention  ;  which  I  did,  that  as  my  coming  thither 
wj.s  open  ;uid  publick.,  fo  my  departure  alfo  might  be.    Be- 


16713  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  143 

fore  I  left  the  ifland,  I  wrote  the  following  letter  to  my 
wife ;  that  fhe  might  underftand  both  how  it  was  with  me, 
and  how  I  proceeded  in  my  travels. 

*  My  dear  Heart, 

*  nr^O  whom  is  my  love,  and  to  all  the  children  in  the 

*  X    Seed  of  life  that  changeth  not,  but  is  over  all ;  blef- 

*  fed  be  the  Lord  for  ever!     I  have  undergone  great  fufF^^-  ' 

*  ings  in  my  body  and  fpirit,  beyond  words ;   but  the  God 

*  of  Heaven  be  praifed,  his  truth  is  over  all.  I  am  now 
'  well ;  and,  if  the  Lord  permit,  within  a  few  days  I  pals  from 

*  Barbadoes  towards  Jamaica;  and  think  to  (lay  fcut  little 
'  there.  I  defire  that  ye  may  be  all  kept  free  in  the  Seed 
'  of  life,  out  of  all  cumbrances.     Friends  are  generally  well. 

*  Remember  me  to  friends  that  enquire  after  me.      So  no 

*  more,  but  my  love  in  the  Seed  and  Life,  that  changeth 
'  not. 

'  G.  F.' 
*  Barbadoes,  the  6th  of  the 
'11th  month,  1671.' 

I  fet  fail  from  Barbadoes  to  Jamaica  the  eighth  of  the 
eleventh  month,  1671,  Robert  Widders,  William  Edmund- 
fon,  Solomon  Eccles,  and  Elizabeth  Hooton  going  with 
me.  Thomas  Briggs  and  John  Stubbs  remained  in  Barba- 
does ;  with  whom  were  John  Roufe  and  William  Baily. 
We  had  a  quick  and  eafy  paffage  to  Jamaica ;  where  we 
met  with  James  Lancafter,  John  Cartwright,  and  George 
Pattifon  again,  who  had  been  labouring  there  in  the  fervice 
of  truth ;  into  which  we  forthwith  entered  with  them,  tra- 
velling up  and  down  through  the  ifland,  which  is  large ; 
and  a  brave  country  it  is,  though  the  people  are  many  of 
them  debauched  and  wicked.  We  had  much  fci-vice. 
There  was  a  great  convincement,  and  many  received  the 
truth;  fome  of  which  were  people  of  account  in  the  world. 
We  had  many  meetings  there,  which  were  large,  and  very 
quiet.  The  people  were  civil  to  us,  fo  that  not  a  mouth 
was  opened  againft  us.  I  was  twice  with  the  governor,  and 
fome  other  magiftrates,  who  all  carried  themfelves  kindly 
towards  me. 

About  a  week  after  we  landed  in  Jamaica,  Elizabeth 
Hooton,  a  woman  of  great  age,  who  had  travelled  much  in 
truth's  fervice,  and  fuffercd  much  for  it,  departed  this  life. 


144  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1671 

She  was  well  the  day  before  fhe  died ;  and  departed  in  peace, 
like  a  lamb,   bearing  tellimony  to  truth  at  her  departure. 

When  we  had  been  about  feven  weeks  in  Jamaica,  had 
brought  friends  into  pretty  good  order,  and  fettled  leveral 
meetings  amongft  them,  we  left  Solomon  Eccles  there ;  the 
reft  of  us  embarked  for  Maryland  ;  leaving  friends  and  truth 
profperous  in  Jamaica,  the  Lord's  power  being  over  all, 
and  his  bleffed  Seed  reigning. 

Before  I  left  Jamaica,  I  wrote  another  letter  to  my  wife, 
as  followeth  : 

'  My  dear  Heart, 

*  'TnO  whom  is  my  love,  and  to  the  children,  in  that 
'  JL  which  changeth  -not,  but  is  over  all  ;  and  to  all 
'  friends  in  thole  parts.     I  have  been  at  Jamaica  about  five 

*  weeks.  Friends  are  generally  well ;  and  here  is  a  con- 
'  vincement ;  but  things  would  be  too  large  to  write  of. 
'  Sufferings  in  every  place  attend  me;  but  the  blefTed  Seed 
'  is  over  all  :   the  great  Lord  be  praifed,  who  is  Lord  of  fea 

*  and  land,  and  of  all  things  therein.      We  intend  to  pafs 

*  from  hence  about  the  beginning  of  the  next  month,  to- 

*  wards  Maryland,  if  the  Lord  pleafe.      Dwell  all  of  you  in 

*  the  Seed  of  God.    In  his  truth  I  reft  in  love  to  you  all. 

'  Jamaica,    23d  of  the 
'  1 2th  month,  1671.' 

We  went  on  board  the  8th  of  the  firft  month  1671-2; 
and  having  contrary  winds,  were  a  full  week  failing  for- 
wards and  backwards,  before  we  could  get  out  of  fight  of 
Jamaica.  A  difiicult  voyage  this  proved,  and  pretty  dan- 
gerous, efpecially  in  our  paffing  through  the  gulph  of  Flo- 
rida, where  we  met  with  many  winds  and  ftorms.  But  the 
great  God,  who  is  Lord  of  fea  and  land,  and  who  rideth 
upon  the  wings  of  the  wind,  did  by  his  power  preferve  us 
through  many  and  great  dangers,  when  by  extreme  ftrefs  of 
weather  our  veflel  was  divers  times  like  to  be  overfet,  and 
much  of  her  tackling  broken.  And  indeed  we  were  fenfible 
that  the  Lord  was  a  God  at  hand,  and  that  his  ear  was  open 
to  the  fupplications  of  his  people.  For  when  the  winds 
were  fo  ftrong  and  boifterous,  and  the  ftorms  and  tempefts 
fo  great,  that  the  failors  knew  not  what  to  do,  but  let  the 
fhip  go  which  way  ftie  would;  then  did  we  pray  unto  the 
Lord;   who  did  gracioully  hear  and  accept  us,   and  did 


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calm  the  winds  and  feas,  gave  us  feafonable  weather,  and 
made  us  to  rejoice  in  his  falvation ;  bleffed  and  praifed  be 
the  holy  name  of  the  Lord,  whofe  power,  hath  dommion 
over  all,  and  whom  the  winds  and  feas  obey  ! 

We  were  between  fix  and  feven  weeks  in  this  palTage 
from  Jamaica  to  Maryland.  Some  days  before  we  came 
to  land,  after  we  had  entered  the  bay  of  Patuxent  river,  a 
great  ftorm  arofe,  which  call  a  boat  upon  us  for  flielter ;  in 
which  were  divers  men  and  women  of  account  in  the  world. 
We  took  them  in  ;  but  the  boat  was  loft,  with  five  hundred 
pounds  worth  of  goods  in  it,  as  they  faid.  They  continued 
on  board  us  feveral  days,  not  having  any  means  to  get  off; 
and  we  had  a  very  good  meeting  with  them  in  the  ftiip. 
But  provifions  grew  Ihort,  for  they  brought  none  in  with 
them  ;  and  ours,  by  reafon  of  the  length  of  our  voyage, 
were  well  nigh  fpent  when  they  came  to  us  :  fo  that  with 
their  living  upon  it  too,  we  had  now  little  or  none  left. 
Whereupon  George  Pattifon  took  a  boat,  and  ventured  his 
life  to  get  to  fhore ;  the  hazard  was  fo  great,  that  all  but 
friends  concluded  he  would  be  caft  away.  Yet  it  pleafed 
the  Lord  to  bring  him  fafe  to  land ;  and  in  a  fhort  time  af- 
ter the  friends  of  the  place  came  to  fetch  us  to  land  alfo, 
in  a  feafonable  time,  for  our  provifions  were  quite  fpent. 

We  partook  alfo  of  another  great  deliverance  in  this  voy- 
age, through  the  good  providence  of  the  Lord,  which  we'^^ 
underftood  aftervv'ards.  When  we  were  determined  to  come 
from  Jamaica,  we  had  our  choice  of  two  veffcls,  both  bound 
for  the  fame  coaft.  One  was  a  frigate,  the  other  a  yacht. 
The  mafter  of  the  frigate,  we  thought,  aflced  unreafonably 
for  our  paffage  ;  which  made  us  agree  with  the  mafter  of  the 
yacht,  who  offered  to  carry  us  ten  fliillings  a  piece  cheaper 
than  the  other.  We  went  on  board  the  yacht,  and  the  fri- 
gate came  out  together  with  us,  intending  to  be  conforts 
during  the  voyage ;  and  for  feveral  days  we  failed  together : 
but  what  with  calms  and  contrary  winds,  we  were  in  awhile 
feparated.  After  which,  the  frigate,  lofing  her  way,  fell 
among  the  Spaniards ;  by  whom  fhe  was  plundered  and 
robbed,  and  the  mafter  and  mate  made  prifoners  :  after- 
wards, being  retaken  by  the  Englifti,  flie  was  fent  home  to 
her  owners  in  Virginia.  Which  when  we  came  to  under- 
ftand,  we  faw  and  admired  the  Providence  of  God,  who 
preferved  us  out  of  our  enemies  hands;  and  he  that  was 
covetous  fell  among  the  covetous. 

Here  we  found  Burneyate,   intending  fiiortly  to  fail  for 

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146  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1672 

Old  England ;  but  upon  our  arrival  he  altered  his  purpofe, 
and  joined  us  in  the  Lord's  fervice.  He  had  appointed  a 
general  meeting  for  all  the  friends  in  the  province  of  Mary- 
land, that  he  might  fee  them  together,  and  take  his  leave  of 
them,  before  he  departed  out  of  the  country ;  and  it  was  fo 
ordered  by  the  good  Providence  of  God,  that  we  landed 
jufl  time  enough  to  reach  that  meeting ;  by  which  means 
we  had  a  very  feafonable  opportunity  of  taking  the  friends 
of  the  province  together.  A  very  large  meeting  this  was, 
and  held  four  days ;  to  which,  befides  friends,  came  many 
other  people,  divers  of  whom  were  of  confiderable  quality 
in  the  world's  account :  for  there  were  five  or  fix  juftices  of 
the  peace,  the  fpeaker  of  their  affembly,  one  of  their  coun- 
cil, and  others  of  note,  who  feemed  well  fatisfied  with  the 
meeting.  After  the  publick  meetings  were  over,  the  men's 
and  women's  meetings  began ;  wherein  I  opened  to  friends 
the  fervice  thereof,  to  their  great  fatisfaftion.  After  this  we 
^vent  to  the  ChfFs,  where  another  general  meeting  was  ap- 
pointed. We  went  fome  of  the  way  by  land,  the  reft  by 
water;  and  a  ftorm  arifing,  our  boat  was  run  aground,  in 
danger  to  be  beaten  to  pieces,  and  the  water  came  in  upon 
us.  I  was  in  a  great  fweat,  having  come  very  hot  out  of  a 
meeting  before,  and  now  was  wet  with  the  water  befides  : 
yet  having  faith  in  the  divine  power,  I  was  preferved  from 
taking  hurt,  bleffed  be  the  Lord !  To  this  meeting  many 
came,  who  received  the  truth  with  reverence.  We  had  alfo 
a  men's  meeting  and  a  women's  meeting.  Moft  of  the 
backfliders  came  in  again;  and  feveral  of  thofe  meetings 
were  eftablifhed  for  taking  care  of  the  affairs  of  the  church. 
After  thefe  two  general  meetings,  we  parted  company, 
dividing  ourfelves  unto  feveral  coafts,  for  the  fervice  of 
truth.  James  Lancafter  and  John  Cartwright  went  by  fea 
for  New-England ;  William  Edmundfon  and  three  friends 
more  failed  for  Virginia,  where  things  were  much  out  of 
order;  John  Burnyeate,  Robert  Widders,  George  Pattifon, 
and  I,  with  feveral  friends  of  the  province,  went  over  by 
boat  to  the  eaftern  fhore,  and  had  a  meeting  there  on  the 
firft-day ;  where  many  people  received  the  truth  with  giad- 
nel's,  and  friends  were  greatly  refrelhed.  A  very  large  and 
heavenly  meeting  it  was.  Several  perfons  of  quality  in 
that  country  were  at  it,  two  of  whom  were  juflices  of  tjie 
peace.  It  was  upon  me  from  the  Lord  to  fend  to  tlie  In- 
dian emperor  and  his  kings,  to  come  to  that  meeting ;  the 
emperor  came,  and  was  at  the  meeting;  but  his  kings',  lying 


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further  oflF,  could  not  reach  thither  time  enough;  yet  they 
came  after  with  their  cockaroofcs.  I  had  in  the  eveninir 
two  good  opportunities  with  them ;  they  heard  the  word  of 
the  Lord  wiihngly,  and  confeffed  to  it.  '  What  I  fpoke 
'  to  them,  1  defired  them  to  fpeak  to  their  people ;   and  let 

*  them  know,   that  God  was  raifmg  up  his  tabernacle  of 

*  witnefs  in  their  wildernefs-country,  and  was  fetting  up  his 

*  ftandard  and  glorious  enfign  of  lighteoufnefs.'  They  car- 
ried themfeU'es  very  courteoufly  and  lovingly ;  and  in- 
q  iired,    '   Where  the   next   meeting   would   be,   and   thev 

*  would   come  to  it,'     Yet  they  laid,   '  They  had  a  great 

*  debate  v/ith  their  council  about  their  coming,  before  they 

*  came  now.' 

The  next  day  we  began  our  journey  by  land  to  New- 
England  ;  a  tedious  journey  through  the  woods  and  wil- 
dernefs,  over  bogs  and  great  rivers.  We  took  horfc  at  the 
head  of  Tredaven  Creek,  and  travelled  through  the  woods 
till  we  came  a  little  above  the  head  of  Miles  River ;  by 
which  we  pafTed,  and  rode  to  the  head  of  Wye  River; 
and  fo  to  the  head  of  Chefter  River ;  where,  making  a  lire, 
we  took  up  our  lodging  in  the  woods.  Next  morning  we 
travelled  the  woods  till  we  came  to  SafTafras  River,  which 
we  went  over  in  canoes  (or  Indian  boats)  cauling  our  horfes 
to  fwim  by.  Then  we  rode  to  Bohemia  River;  where  in 
like  manner  fwimming  our  horfes,  we  ourfelves  went  over 
in  canoes.  We  relied  a  little  at  a  plantation  by  the  way, 
but  not  long,  for  we  had  thirty  miles  to  ride  that  af- 
ternoon, if  we  would  reach  a  town ;  which  we  were  willing 
to  do,  and  therefore  rode  hard  for  it.  I,  with  fome  others, 
whofe  horfes  were  ftrong,  got  to  the  town  that  night,  ex- 
ceedingly tired,  and  wet  to  the  Ikin ;  but  George  Pattifon 
and  Robert  Widders,  being  weaker-horfed,  were  obliged 
to  lay  in  the  woods  that  night  alfo.  The  town  we  went  to 
was  a  Dutch  town,  called  Newcaflle ;  whither  Robert  Wid- 
ders and  George  Pattifon  came  to  us  next  morning.  We 
departed  thence,  and  got  over  the  river  Delaware,  not  with- 
out great  danger  of  fom^  of  our  lives.  When  we  were  over, 
we  were  troubled  to  procure  guides ;  which  were  hard  to 
get,  and  very  chargeable.  Then  had  we  that  wildeinefs 
country  to  pafs  through,  fince  called  Well  Jerfcy,  not  then 
inhabited  by  Englifh ;  fo  that  we  have  travelled  a  whole 
day  together  without  feeing  man  or  woman,  houfe  or  dwel- 
ling-place. Sometimes  we  lay  in  the  woods  by  a  fire,  and 
fonietimcs  in  the  Indians  wigwams  or  houfcs.  We  came 
T  2 


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148  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1672 

one  night  to  an  Indian  town,  and  lay  at  the  king's  houfe, 
who  was  a  very  pretty  man.  Both  he  and  his  wife  received 
us  very  lovingly,  and  his  attendants  (fuch  as  they  were) 
were  very  rerpe6tful  to  us.  They  laid  us  mats  to  lie  on ; 
but  provifion  was  very  fhort  with  them,  having  caught  but 
little  that  day.  At  another  Indian  town,  where  we  ftaid, 
the  king  came  to  us,  and  he  could  fpeak  fome  Englifli.  I 
fpoke  to  him  much,  and  alfo  to  his  people;  and  they  were 
very  loving  to  us.  At  length  we  came  to  Middletown,  an 
Englilh  plantation  in  Eali  Jerfey  ;  and  there  v-ere  fome 
friends  :  but  we  could  not  flay  to  have  a  meeting  at  that 
time,  being  earneftly  preffed  in  our  fpirits  to  get  to  the 
half-year's  m,eeting  of  friends  at  Oyiler-Bay  in  Long- 
Ifland,  which  was  near  at  hand.  We  went  with  a  friend, 
Richard  Hartfhorn,  brother  to  Hugh  Hartfhorn,  the  up- 
holfterer  in  London,  who  received  us  gladly  to  his  houfe, 
where  we  refrefhed  ourfelves,  and  then  he  carried  us  and 
our  horfes  in  his  own  boat  over  a  great  water,  which  held 
us  moft  part  of  the  day  in  getting  over,  and  fet  us  upon 
Long-Ifland.  We  got  that  evenmg  to  friends  at  Grave- 
fend,  with  whom  we  tarried  that  night.  Next  day  we  got 
to  Flulhing.  The  day  following  we  reached  Oyfter-Bay  ; 
feveral  friends  both  of  Gravefend  and  Fluihing  accompany- 
ing us.  The  half-year's  meeting  began  next  day,  which 
lafted  four  days.  The  firll  and  fecond  days  we  had  pub- 
lick  meetings  for  worfhip,  to  which  people  of  all  forts  might 
and  did  come.  On  third-day  were  the  men's  and  women's 
meetings,  wherein  the  affairs  of  the  church  were  taken  care 
of.  Here  we  met  with  fome  bad  fpirits,  who  were  run  out 
from  truth  into  prejudice,  contention,  and  oppofition  to  the 
order  of  truth,  and  to  friends  therein.  Thefe  had  been  very 
troublefome  to  friends  in  their  meetings  there  and  there- 
abouts formerly,  and  it  is  like  would  have  been  fo  now  ; 
but  I  would  not  fuffer  the  fervice  of  our  men's  and  women's 
meetings  to  be  interrupted  and  hindered  by  their  cavils.  I 
let  ihem  know,   '  if  they   had  any   thing   to  obje61;   againft 

*  the  order  of  truth  which  we  vi'ere  in,  we  would  give  them 

•  a  meeting  another  day  on  purpofe.*  And  indeed  I  labour- 
ed the  more,  and  travelled  the  harder  to  get  to  this  meeting, 
where  it  was  expccfed  many  of  thefe  contentious  people 
would  be ;  becaufe  I  underftood  they  had  reflefted  much 
upon  me  when  I  was  far  from  them.  The  men's  and  wo- 
men's meetings  being  over,  on  the  fourth  day  we  had  a 
meeting  with  thofc  difcontented  people,  to  which  as  many 


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of  them  as  would  did  come,  and  as  many  friends  as  had  a 
defire  were  prefent  alfo ;  and  the  Lord's  power  broke  forth 
giorioufly,  to  the  confoundmg  of  the  gainfayers.  Then 
lome,  that  had  been  chief  in  the  milchievous  work  of  con- 
tention and  oppofition  againft  the  truth,  began  to  fawn  up- 
on me,  and  caft  the  blame  upon  others  ;  but  the  deceitful 
fpirit  was  judged  down  and  condemned,  and  the  glorious 
truth  of  God  was  exalted  and  let  over  all;  and  they  were 
all  brought  down  and  bowed  under.  Which  was  of  great 
fervice  to  truth,  and  great  iatisfa6lion  and  comfort  to  friends  ; 
glory  to  the  Lord  for  ever ! 

After  friends  were  gone  to  their  feveral  habitations,  we 
ftaid  tome  days  upon  the  ifland,  had  meetings  in  feveral 
parts  thereof,  and  good  fervice  for  the  Lord.  When  we 
were  clear  of  the  ifland,  we  returned  to  Oyfter-Bay,  wait- 
ing for  a  wind  to  carry  us  to  Rhode- Ifland,  computed  to  be 
about  two  hundred  miles.  As  foon  as  the  wind  ferved  we 
fet  fail,  and  arrived  in  Rhode-Ifland  the  thirtieth  of  the 
third  month;  where  we  were  gladly  received  by  friends. 
We  went  to  Nicholas  Eaflon's,  who  was  governor  of  the 
ifland;  where  we  lay,  being  weary  with  traveliing.  On 
firft-day  following  we  had  a  large  meeting;  to  which  the 
deputy-governor  and  feveral  jullices  came,  and  were  mighti- 
ly afft6led  with  the  truth.  The  week  following,  the  yearly 
meeting  for  friends  of  New-England,  and  other  colonies 
adjacent,  was  held  in  this  ifland;  to  which,  befidcs  many 
friends  who  lived  in  thofe  parts,  came  John  Stubbs  from 
Barbadoes,  and  James  Lancafter  and  John  Cartw right  from 
another  way.  This  meeting  lafted  fix  days.  The  firft:  four 
were  fpent  in  general  pubiick  meetings  for  worfliip ;  to 
"which  abundance  of  other  people  came.  For  having  no 
priefts  in  the  ifland,  and  no  rcfl:riclion  to  any  particular 
way  of  worfliip ;  and  the  governor  and  deputy-governor, 
with  feveral  juftices  of  the  peace,  daily  frequenting  meet- 
ings ;  it  fo  encouraged  the  people,  that  they  flocked  in  from 
all  p.irts  of  the  ifland.  Very  good  fervice  we  had  among fl 
them,  and  truth  had  good  reception.  I  have  rarely  obferv- 
ed  a  people,  in  the  Rate  wherein  they  flood,  to  hear  with 
more  attention,  diligence,  and  afFeftion,  than  generally  they 
did,  during  the  four  days  ;  which  was  alfo  taken  notice  of 
by  other  friends.  Thefe  public  meetings  over,  the  men's 
meeting  began,  which  was  large,  precious,  and  weighty. 
The  day  following  was  the  women's  meeting,  which  al- 
fo was  large  and  very  folcmn.     Thefe  two  meetings  be- 


150  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1672 

ing  for  ordering  the  affairs  of  the  church,  many  weighty- 
things  were  opened,  and  communicated  to  them,  by  way  of 
advice,  information,  and  inftrudion  in  the  fervices  relating 
thereunto  ;  that  all  might  be  kept  clean,  fweet,  and  favoury 
amongft  them.  In  thefe,  feveral  men's  and  women's  meet- 
ings for  other  parts  were  agreed  and  fettled,  to  take  care  of 
the  poor,  and  other  affairs  of  the  church,  and  to  fee  that  ail 
who  profefs  truth  walk  accordmg  to  the  glorious  gofpel  of 
God.  When  this  great  general  meeting  was  ended,  it  was 
fomewhat  hard  for  friends  to  part ;  for  the  glorious  power 
of  the  Lord,  which  was  over  all,  and  his  blelfed  truth  and 
life  flowing  amongft  them,  had  fo  knit  and  united  them  to- 
gether, that  they  fpent  two  days  in  taking  leave  one  of  ano- 
ther, and  of  the  friends  of  the  ifland ;  and  then,  bemg 
mightily  filled  with  the  prefence  and  power  of  the  Lord, 
they  went  away  with  joyful  hearts  to  their  feveral  habita- 
tions, in  the  feveral  colonies  where  they  lived. 

When  friends  had  taken  their  leave  one  of  another,  we, 
who  travelled  amongft  them,  difperfed  ourfelves  into  our 
feveral  fervices,  as  the  Lord  ordered  us.  John  Burnyeate, 
John  Cartwright,  and  George  Pattifon  went  into  the  eafl- 
ern  parts  of  New-England,  in  company  with  the  friends 
that  came  from  thence,  to  vifitthe  particular  meetings  there; 
whom  John  Stubbs  and  James  Lancafler  intended  to  follow 
awhile  after,  in  the  fame  fervice ;  but  they  were  not  yet 
clear  of  this  ifland.  Robert  Widders  and  I  flaid  longer 
upon  this  ifland ;  finding  fervice  flili  here  for  the  Lord, 
through  the  great  opennefs,  and  the  daily  coming  in  of 
frefh  people  from  other  colonies,  for  fome  time,  after  the 
general  meeting  ;  fo  that  we  had  many  large  and  ferviceable 
meetings  among  them. 

Durmg  this  time,  a  marriage  was  celebrated  amongfl 
friends  in  this  ifland,  and  we  were  prefent.  It  was  at  a 
friend's  houfe,  who  had  formerly  been  governor  of  the 
ifland :  and  three  juflices  of  the  peace,  with  many  others 
not  in  profcflion  with  us,  and  friends  alfo  faid.  They  never 
fixw  fuch  a  fbiemn  alfembly  on  fuch  an  occafion,  fo  weighty 
a  marriage,  and  fo  comely  an  order.  Thus  truth  was  fet 
over  all.  This  might  ferve  for  an  example  to  others ;  for 
there  were  fome  prefent  from  many  other  places. 

After  this  I  had  a  great  travail  in  fpirit  concerning  the 
Ranters  in  thofc  parts,  who  had  been  rude  at  a  meeting 
which  I  'was  not  at.  Wherefore  I  appointed  a  meeting 
amongfl  them,  believing  the   Lord  would  give  me  power 


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over  them;  which  he  did.  to  his  praife  and  glory;  blefled 
be  his  name  for  ever !  There  were  at  this  meeting  many 
friends,  and  divers  other  people ;  fome  of  whom  were  juf- 
ticcs  of  the  peace,  and  officers,  who  were  generally  well  af- 
fefted  with  the  truth.  One,  who  had  been  a  juftice  twenty 
years,  was  convinced,  fpoke  highly  of  the  truth,  and  more 
highly  of  me  than  is  fit  for  me  to  mention  or  take  notice  of. 

We  had  a  meeting  at  Providence,  which  was  very  large, 
confifting  of  many  forts  of  people  :  I  had  a  great  travail  up- 
on my  fpirit,  that  it  might  be  preferved  quiet,  and  that 
truth  might  be  brought  over  the  people,  and  might  gain  en- 
trance and  have  place  in  them  ;  for  they  were  generally 
above  the  priefts,  in  high  notions  ;  and  fome  came  on  pur- 
pofe  to  difpute.  But  the  Lord,  whom  we  waited  upon, 
was  with  us,  his  power  went  over  them  all  ;  and  his  blefled 
Seed  was  exalted  and  fet  above  all.  The  difputers  were 
lilent,  and  the  meeting  quiet,  and  ended  well ;  praifed  be 
the  Lord  !  The  people  went  away  mightily  fatisfied,  much 
defirmg  another  meeting.  This  place  (called  Providence) 
was  about  thirty  miles  from  Rhode-Ifland;  we  went  to  it 
by  water.  The  governor  of  Rhode-Illand,  and  many 
others,  went  with  me  thither;  and  we  had  the  meeting  in  a 
great  barn,  which  was  thronged  with  people,  fo  that  I  was 
exceedincr  hot,  and  in  a  great  fweat;  but  all  was  well;  the 
glorious  power  of  the  Lord  Ihined  over  ail,  glory  to  the  great 
God  for  ever ! 

After  this  we  went  to  Narraganfet,  about  twenty  miles 
from  Rhode-Ifland;  and  the  governor  went  with  us.  We 
had  a  meeting  at  a  juftxe's,  where  friends,  never  had  any  be- 
fore. The  meeting  was  very  large,  for  the  country  general- 
ly came  in  ;  and  people  from  Connefticut,  and  other  parts 
roundabout.  There  were  four  juflices  of  peace.  Moft  of 
thefe  people  were  fuch  as  had  never  heard  friends  before ; 
but  they  were  mightily  affefted,  and  a  great  defire  there  is 
after  the  truth  amongft  them.  So  that  meeting  was  of  very 
good  fervice;  bleifcd  be  the  Lord  for  ever!  The  juflice,  at 
whofe  houfe  it  was,  and  another  juftice  of  that  rountry,  in- 
vited me  to  come  again  ;  but  I  was  then  clear  of  tliofe  parts, 
and  was  going  towards  Shelter-ifland.  John  Burnycate 
and  John  Cartwright,  being  come  out  of  New-England  in- 
to Rhode-Ifland  before  I  was  gone,  I  laid  this  place  beft^re 
them,  and  they  felt  drawings  thither,  and  went  to  ^'ii:tthem. 
At  another  place.  I  heard  fome  of  the  magi  Urates  faid  among 
Jhemfclves,   '  If  they  had  money  enough,  they  svouid   hire 


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*  me  to  be  their  minifter.'  This  was,  where  they  did  not 
well  underftand  us,  and  our  principles  :  but  when  I  heard 
of  it,    I  faid,   '  It  was  time  for  me  to  be  gone ;  for  if  their 

•  eye  was  fo  much  to  me,  or  any  of  us,  they  would  not  come 
'  to  their  own  teacher.'  For  this  thing  (hiring  miniftcrs) 
had  fpoiled  many,  by  hindering  them  from  improving  their 
own  talents  ;  whereas  our  labour  is,  to  bring  every  one  to 
their  own  teacher  in  themfelves. 

I  went  from  hence  towards  Shelter-Ifland,  having  with 
me  Robert  Widders,  James  Lancafter,  George  Pattifon, 
and  John  jay,  a  p>anter  in  Barbadoes.  We  went  off"  in  a 
floop ;  and  paffing  by  Point  Juda  and  Block-Ifland.  we 
came  to  Fifhers-Ifland,  where  at  night  we  went  on  fhore, 
but  were  not  able  to  flay  for  the  mufquetoes  (a  fort  of  gnats, 
or  little  flies)  which  abound  there,  and  are  very  trouble- 
fome.  Wherefore  we  went  into  our  floop  again,  put  off 
from  the  fhore,  caft  anchor,  and  lay  in  our  floop  that  night. 
Next  day  we  went  into  the  Sound,  but  finding  our  floop 
was  not  able  to  live  in  that  water,  we  returned  again,  and 
came  to  anchor  before  Fifhers-Ifland,  where  we  lay  in  our 
floop  that  night  alfo.  There  fell  abundance  of  rain,  and 
our  floop  being  open,  we  were  exceeding  wet.  Next  day 
we  palfed  over  the  waters  called  the  Two  Horfe  Races,  and 
then  by  Garner's-ifland ;  after  which  we  pafled  by  Gull's- 
ifland,  and  got  at  length  to  Shelter-ifland,  which  though  it 
was  but  about  twenty-feven  leagues  from  Rhode-ifland, 
through  the  difficulty  of  palfage,  we  were  three  days  in  get- 
ting thither.  The  day  after,  being  firft-day,  we  had  a  meet- 
ing there.  In  the  fame  week,  I  had  a  meeting  among  the 
Indians,  at  which  were  their  king,  with  his  council,  and 
about  an  hundred  Indians  more.  They  fat  down  like 
friends,  and  heard  very  attentively,  while  I  fpoke  to  them 
by  an  interpreter,  an  Indian  that  could  fpeak  Englifh  well. 
After  the  meeting  they  appeared  very  loving,  and  confefled 
Vv'hat  was  faid  to  them  was  truth.  The  next  firft-day  we 
had  a  great  meeting  on  the  ifland,  to  which  many  people 
came  who  had  never  heard  friends  before.  They  were  well 
fatisfied  with  the  meeting,  and  would  not  go  away  when  it 
was  done  till  they  had  fpoke  with  me.  I  went  amongft: 
them,  and  found  they  were  much  taken  with  the  truth; 
good  defires  were  raifed  ia  them,  and  great  love.  Blefl^ed 
be  the  Lord,  his  name  fpreads,  and  will  be  great  among  the 
nations,  and  dreadful  among  the  heathen. 

While  we  were  iu  Shelter-ifland,  William  Edmuiidfon 


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came  to  us,  who  had  been  labouring  in  the  work  of  the 
Lord  in  Virginia.  From  whence  he  travelled  through  the 
Defert-country,  thro&gh  difficulties  and  many  trials,  till  he 
came  to  Roan-oak,  where  he  met  with  a  tender  people. 
After  feven  weeks  fervice  in  thofe  parts,  failing  to  Maryland, 
and  fo  to  New- York,  he  came  from  thence  to  Long-ifland  ; 
where  we  met  with  him,  and  were  very  glad  to  hear  from 
him  the  good  fervice  he  had  for  the  Lord  in  the  feveral  pla- 
ces where  he  had  travelled  fmce  he  parted  from  us. 

We  ftaid  not  long  in  Shelter-ifland,  but  entering  our  floop 
again,  put  to  fea  for  Long-ifland.  We  had  a  very  rough 
paflage  ;  the  tide  run  fo  ftrong  for  feveral  hours,  that  I  have 
not  feen  the  like;  and  being  againll  us,  we  could  hardly 
get  forward  though  we  had  a  gale.  We  were  upon  the 
water  all  that  day  and  the  night  following,  but  found  our- 
felves  next  day  driven  back  near  Fiflier's-ifland.  For  there 
was  a  great  fog,  and  towards  day  it  was  very  dark,  fo  that 
we  could  not  fee  what  way  we  made.  Belides,  it  rained 
much  in  the  night,  which  in  our  open  floop  made  us  very 
wet.  Next  day  a  great  fl;orm  arofe,  fo  that  we  were  fain  to 
go  over  the  Sound,  and  did  get  over  with  much  ado.  We 
pafled  by  Faulcon-ifland,  and  came  to  the  Main,  where  we 
cafl;  anchor  till  the  ftorm  was  over.  Then  we  crofled  the 
Sound,  all  very  wet,  and  much  difficulty  we  had  to  get  to 
land,  the  wind  being  ftrong  againft  us.  But  bleffed  be  the 
Lord  God  of  heaven  and  earth,  and  of  the  feas  and  waters, 
all  was  well.  We  got  fafe  to  Oyfter-bay  in  Long-ifland, 
the  feventh  of  the  fixth  month,  very  early  in  the  morning, 
which,  they  fay,  is  about  two  hundred  miles  from  Rhode- 
Ifland.  At  Oyfter-bay  we  had  a  very  large  meeting.  The 
fame  day  James  Lancafter  and  Chriftopher  Holder  went 
over  the  bay  to  Rye,  on  the  continent,  in  governor  Win- 
throp's  government,  and  had  a  meeting  there.  From  Oyfter- 
bay  we  pafled  about  thirty  miles  to  Flufhing,  where  we  had 
a  very  large  meeting,  many  hundreds  of  people  being  there; 
fome  of  whom  came  about  thirty  miles  to  it.  A  glorious 
and  heavenly  meeting  it  was  (praifed  be  the  Lord  God!) 
and  the  people  were  much  fatisfied.  Meanwhile  Chrifto- 
pher Holder  and  fome  other  friends  went  to  a  town  in 
Long-ifland,  called  Jamaica,  and  had  a  meeting  there. 
We  palled  from  Flufliing  to  Gravefend,  about  twenty 
miles,  and  there  had  three  precious  meetings ;  to  which 
many  would  have  come  from  New- York,  but  that  the  wea- 
ther hindered  them.  Being  clear  of  this  place,  v,'e  hired  a 
Vol.   11.  u 


154  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  fi^yx 

iioop,  and,  the  wind  ferving,  fet  out  for  the  new  country 
now  called  Jerfey.  Faffing  down  the  bay  by  Conny-ifland, 
Natton-illand,  and  Stratton-ifland,  we  came  to  Richard 
Hartfhorn's  at  Middletown-harbour,  about  break  of  day, 
the  twenty-feventh  of  the  fixth  month.  Next  day  we  rode 
about  thirty  miles  into  that  country,  through  the  woods, 
and  over  very  bad  bogs,  one  worfe  than  all  the  reft ;  the 
defcent  into  which  was  fo  fteep  that  we  were  fain  to  Hide 
down  with  our  horfes,  and  then  let  them  lie  and  breathe 
themfelves  before  they  could  go  on.  This  place  the  peo- 
ple of  the  country  called  Purgatory.  We  got  at  length  to 
Shrewfbury,  in  Eaft-Jerfey,  and  on  firft-day  had  a  precious 
meeting  there ;  to  which  friends  and  other  people  came  far, 
and  the  bleifed  prefence  of  the  Lord  was  with  us.  The 
fame  week  we  had  a  men's  and  women's  meeting  out  of 
moft  parts  of  Mew-Jerfey.  They  are  building  a  meeting- 
place  in  the  midft  of  them,  and  there  is  a  monthly  and 
general  meeting  fet  up,  which  will  be  of  great  fervice  in 
thofe  parts,  in  '  keeping  up  the  ^ofpel-order,  and  govern- 
'  ment  of  Chrift  Jefus  (of  the  increafe  of  which  there  is  no 

*  end)  that  they  who  are  faithful  may  fee  that  all  who  pro- 

*  fefs  the  holy  truth  live  in  the  pure  religion,  and  walk  as 

*  becometh  the  gofpel/ 

While  we  were  at  Shrewfbury,  an  accident  befel,  which 
for  the  time  was  a  great  exercife  to  us ;  John  Jay,  a  friend 
of  Barbadoes,  who  came  with  us  from  Rhode- Ifland,  and 
intended  to  accompany  us  through  the  Woods  to  Mary- 
land, being  to  try  a  horfe,  got  upon  his  back,  and  the  horfe 
fell  a  running,  caft  him  down  upon  his  head,  and  broke  his 
neck,  as  the  people  faid.  Thofe  that  were  near  him  took  him 
up  as  dead,  carried  him  a  good  way,  and  laid  him  on  a  tree. 
I  got  to  him  as  foon  as  I  could;  and,  feeling  him,  con- 
cluded he  was  dead.  As  I  ftood  pitying  him  and  his  fa- 
mily, I  took  hold  of  his  hair,  and  his  head  turned  any  way, 
his  neck  was  fo  limber.  Whereupon  I  took  his  head  in 
both  my  hands,  and  letting  my  knees  againft  the  tree,  I 
raifed  his  head,  and  perceived  there  was  nothing  out  or 
broken  that  wsy.  Then  I  put  one  hand  under  his  chin, 
and  the  other  behind  his  head,  and  raifed  his  head  two  or 
three  times  with  all  my  ftrength,  and  brought  it  in.  I  foon 
perceived  his  neck  began  to  grow  ftifF  again,  and  then  he 
began  to  rattle  in  his  throat,  and  quick}}^  afLCv  to  breathe. 
The  people  were  amazed  ;  but  I  bade  them  have  a  good 
heart,  be  ot  good  faith,  and  carry  him  into  the  hcufe.    They 


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did  fo,  and  fet  him  by  the  fire.  I  bid  them  get  him  fome- 
thing  warm  to  drink,  and  put  him  to  bed.  After  he  had 
been  in  the  houfe  awhile,  he  began  to  fpeak ;  but  did  not 
know  where  he  had  been.  The  next  day  we  palled  away 
(and  he  with  us,  pretty  well)  about  lixteen  miles,  to  a  meet- 
ing at  Middletown,  through  woods  and  bogs,  and  over  a 
river;  where  we  fwam  our  horfes,  and  got  over  ourfelves 
upon  a  hollow  tree.  Many  hundred  miles  did  he  travel 
with  us  after  this. 

To  this  meeting  came  moft  of  the  people  of  the  town. 
A  glorious  meeting  we  had,  and  the  truth  was  over  all; 
bleffed  be  the  great  Lord  God  for  ever  !  After  the  meeting 
we  went  to  Middle-town-harbour,  about  five  miles,  in  or- 
der to  take  our  long  journey  next  morning,  through  the 
woods  towards  Maryland,  having  hired  Indians  for  our 
guides.  I  determined  to  pafs  through  the  woods,  on  the 
other  fide  of  Delaware-bay,  that  we  might  head  the  creeks 
and  rivers  as  much  as  poffible.  The  ninth  of  the  feventh 
month  we  fet  forward,  paiTed  through  many  Indian  towns, 
and  over  fome  rivers  and  bogs.  When  we  had  rid  about 
forty  miles,  we  made  a  fire  at  night,  and  lay  by  it.  As  we 
came  among  the  Indians,  we  declared  the  day  of  the  Lord 
to  them.  Next  day  we  travelled  fifty  miles,  as  we  comput- 
ed ;  and  at  night  finding  an  old  houfe,  which  the  Indians 
had  forced  the  people  to  leave,  we  made  a  fire,  and  lay 
there,  at  the  head  of  Delaware-bay.  The  next  day  we 
fwam  our  horfes  over  a  river  about  a  mile,  at  twice,  firft  to 
an  illand  called  Upper- Dinidock,  and  then  to  the  main  land, 
having  hired  Indians  to  help  us  over  in  their  canoes.  This 
day  we  could  reach  but  about  thirty  miles,  and  came  to  a 
Swede's  houfe,  where  we  got  a  little  ftraw,  and  lay  that 
night.  Next  day,  having  hired  another  guide,  we  travelled 
about  forty  miles  through  the  woods,  and  made  a  fire  at 
night,  by  which  we  lay,  and  dried  ourfelves ;  for  we  were 
often  wet  in  our  travels.  Next  day  we  palled  over  a  def- 
perate  river,  which  had  in  it  many  rocks  and  broad  ftones, 
very  hazardous  to  us  and  our  horfes.  From  thence  wc 
came  to  Chriftian-river,  where  we  fwam  our  horfes  over, 
and  went  ourfelves  in  canoes  ;  but  the  fides  of  the  river 
were  fo  miry,  that  fome  of  the  horfes  had  like  to  have  been  . 
laid  up.  From  thence  we  came  to  New-Caflle,  heretofore 
called  New-Amfterdam  ;  and  being  very  w-eary,  and  inquir- 
ing in  the  town  where  we  might-  buy  fome  corn  for  our 
horfes,  the  governor  came  and  invited  me  to  his  houfe,  and 


t^6  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1672 

afterwards  defired  me  to  lodge  there  ;  telling  me,  he  had  a 
bed  for  me,  and  I  fhould  be  welcome.  So  I  ftaid,  the  other 
friends  being  taken  care  of  alfo.  This  was  on  a  feventh- 
day,  and  he  offering  his  houfe  for  a  meeting,  we  had  the 
next  day  a  pretty  large  one  ;  for  moft  of  the  town  were  at  it. 
Here  had  never  been  a  meeting  before,  nor  any  within  a 
great  way  ;  but  this  was  a  very  precious  one,  many  were 
tender,  and  confeffed  to  the  truth,  and  fome  received  it ; 
blelTed  be  the  Lord  for  ever  I 

The  fixteenth  %f  the  feventh  month  we  fet  forward,  and 
travelled,  as  near  as  we  could  compute,  about  fifty  miles, 
through  the  woods  and  over  the  bogs,  heading  Bohemia-river 
and  Saifafras-river.  At  night  we  made  a  fire  in  the  woods, 
and  lay  there  all  night.  It  being  rainy  weather,  we  got  un- 
der fome  thick  trees  for  Ibelter,  and  afterwards  dried  our- 
felves  again  by  the  fire.  Next  day  we  waded  through 
Chefter-river,  a  very  broad  water,  and  afterwards  pafling 
through  many  bad  bogs,  lay  that  night  alfo  in  the  woods 
by  a  fire,  not  having  gone  above  thirty  miles  that  day. 
The  day  following  we  travelled  hard,  though  we  had  fome 
troublelome  bogs  in  our  way;  we  rode  about  fifty  miles, 
and  got  fafe  that  night  to  Robert  Harwood's,  at  Miles-river 
in  Maryland.  This  was  the  eighteenth  of  the  feventh 
month ;  and  though  we  were  very  weary,  and  much  dirtied 
with  the  bogs,  yet  hearing  of  a  meeting  next  day,  we  went 
to  it,  and  from  it  to  John  Edmundfon's;  from  whence  we 
went  three  or  four  miles  by  water  to  a  meeting  on  the  firfl- 
day  following.  Here  was  a  judge's  wife,  who  had  never 
been  at  any  of  our  meetings  before,  who  was  reached,  and 
faid  after  the  meeting,  '  She  had  rather  hear  us  once,  than 
•  the  priefts  a  thoufand  times.'  Many  others  alfo  were  well 
fatisfied ;  for  the  power  of  the  Lord  was  eminently  with  us. 
Bleffcd  for  ever  be  his  holy  name  !  We  paiTed  from  thence 
about  twenty-two  miles,  and  had  a  good  meeting  upon  the 
Kentifli  fhore,  to  which  one  of  the  judges  came.  After  ano- 
ther good  meeting  hard-by  at  William  Wilcock's,  where  we 
had  good  ferviee  for  the  Lord,  we  went  by  water  about 
twenty  miles  to  a  very  large  meeting,  where  were  fome  hun- 
dreds of  people,  and  four  juRices  of  peace,  the  high-fheriff 
of  Delaware,  and  others  from  thence;  there  was  an  Indian 
emperor  or  governor,  and  two  others  of  the  chief  men  among 
the  Indians.  With  thele  Indians  I  had  a  good  opportuni- 
ty, I  fpoke  to  them  by  an  interpreter  :  they  heard  the 
truth  attentively,  and  were  very  loving.     A  blelled  meeting 


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this  was,  of  great  femce  both  for  convincing,  and  eftablifh- 
ing  in  the  truth  thofe  that  were  convinced  of  it.  Bleifed  be 
the  Lord,  who  caufeth  his  bleffed  truth  to  fpread  !  After  the 
meeting  a  woman  came  to  me,  whofe  hufband  was  one  of  the 
judges  of  that  country,  and  a  member  of  the  affembly  there. 
She  told  me,   '  Her  liufband  was  fick,  not  hkely  to  live,  and 

*  defired  me  to  go  home  with  her  to  fee  him.'  It  was  three 
miles  to  her  houfe,  and  I  being  juft  come  hot  out  of  the 
meeting,  it  was  hard  for  me  then  to  go  ;  yet  confidering  the 
fervice,  1  got  an  horfe,  went  with  her,  vi?5t€d  her  hufband, 
and  fpoke  what  the  Lord  gave  me  to  him.  The  man  was 
much  refrelhed,  and  finely  raifed  up  by  the  power  of  the 
Lord ;  and  afterwards  came  to  our  meetings.  I  went  back 
to  the  friends  that  night,  and  next  day  we  departed  thence 
about  nineteen  or  twenty  miles  to  Tredhaven-creek,  to  John 
Edmundfon's  again  ;  from  whence,  the  third  of  the  eighth 
month,  we  went  to  the  general  meeting  for  all  Maryland 
friends. 

This  meeting  held  five  days.  The  firft  three  we  had 
meetings  for  publick  worfhip,  to  which  people  of  all  forts 
came ;  the  other  two  were  fpent  in  the  men's  and  women's 
meetings.  To  thofe  publick  meetings  came  many  Protef- 
tants  of  divers  forts,  and  fome  Papifls ;  amongft  whom 
were  feveral  magiftrates  and  their  wives,  with  other  perfons 
of  chief  account  in  the  country.  Of  the  common  people,  it 
was  thought  there  were  fometimes  a  thoufand  at  one  of 
thofe  meetings ;  fo  that  though  they  had  enlarged  their 
meeting-place,  and  made  it  as  big  again  as  it  was  before,  it 
could  not  contain  the  people.  I  went  by  boat  every  day 
four  or  five  miles  to  the  meeting,  and  there  were  fo  many 
boats  at  that  time  paffing  upon  the  river,  that  it  was  almoll 
like  the  Thames.      The  people  faid,  *  There  were  never  fo 

*  many  boats  feen  there  together  before;'  and  one  of  the 
juftices  faid,  '  He  never  law  fo  many  people  together  in 
•■  that  country.'  It  was  a  very  heavenly  meeting,  wherein 
the  prefence  of  the  Lord  was  glorioufly  manifefled,  friends 
were  fweetly  refrefhed,  the  people  generally  fatisfied,  and 
many  convinced ;  for  the  bleffed  power  of  the  Lord  was 
over  all :  everlafting  praifes  to  his  holy  name  for  ever!  Af- 
ter the  publick  meetings  were  over,  the  men's  and  women's 
began,  and  were  held  the  other  two  days  ;  for  I  had  fome- 
thing  to  impart  to  them,  v/hich  concerned  the  glorv  of  God, 
the  order  of  the  gofpel,  and  the  government  of  Chrifl  }e- 
fus.     When  thefe  meetings  were  over,  we  took  our  leave  ot 


158  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [167* 

friends  in  thofe  parts,  whom  we  left  well  eftabliflied  in  the 
truth.  The  tenth  of  the  eighth  month  we  went  about  thirty 
miles  by  water,  pafiTing  by  Cranes-ifland,  Swan-ifland,  and 
Kent-ifland,  in  very  foul  weather  and  much  rain ;  whereby, 
our  boat  being  open;  we  were  not  only  ver)'  much  wetted, 
but  in  great  danger  oF  being  overfet ;  infomuch  that  fome 
thought  we  could  not  have  efcaped  being  call  away,  till 
they  law  us  come  to  fhore  next  morning.  But  bleffed  be 
God,  we  were  very  well.  Having  got  to  a  little  houfe, 
dried  our  cloaths  by  the  fire,  and  refrefhed  ourfelves  a  little, 
we  took  to  our  boat  again,  and  put  off  from  land,  fome- 
times  faihng,  and  iometimes  rowing;  but  having  very  foul 
weather,  we  could  not  get  above  twelve  miles  forward.  At 
night  we  got  to  land,  made  us  a  fire,  by  which  fome  lay, 
and  others  by  a  fire  at  a  houfe  a  little  way  off.  Next  morn- 
ing we  paflfed  over  the  Great-bay,  and  failed  about  forty 
miles  that  day.  Making  to  fhore  at  night,  we  lay  there, 
fome  in  the  boat,  and  fome  at  an  alehoufe.  Next  morn- 
ing, being  firft-day,  we  went  fix  or  feven  miles  to  a  friend's 
houfe,  a  juftice  of  the  peace ;  where  we  had  a  meeting. 
This  was  a  little  above  the  head  of  the  Great-bay.  We 
ivere  almofl;  four  days  upon  water,  weary  with  rowing,  yet 
all  was  very  well ;  bleffed  and  praifed  be  the  Lord  !  We 
went  next  day  to  another  friend's  over  the  head  of  Hatton's- 
iHand,  where  we  had  good  fervice ;  as  we  had  alfo  the  day 
following  at  George  Wilfon's,  a  friend,  that  lived  about 
three  miles  lurther,  where  we  had  a  very  precious  meeting, 
there  being  great  tendernefs  amongft  the  people. 

After  this  we  failed  about  ten  miles  to  James  Frizby's,  a 
juftice  of  peace ;  where,  the  fixteenth  of  the  eighth  month, 
we  had  a  very  large  meeting,  at  which,  befides  friends,  were 
fome  hundreds  of  people,  as  it  was  fuppofed.  Amongfl 
them  were  feveral  juftices,  captains,  and  the  fheriff",  with 
other  perfons  of  note.  A  bleffed  heavenly  meeting  this 
was;  a  powerful,  thundering  teftimony  for  truth  was  borne 
tlicrein  ;  a  great  fenfe  there  was  upon  the  people,  and  much 
brokennefs  and  tendernefs  am.ongft  them.  We  flaid  till 
about  the  eleventh  hour  in  the  night,  that  the  tide  turned 
for  us ;  then  taking  boat,  we  paffed  that  night  and  the  next 
day  about  fifty  miles  to  another  friend's  houfe.  The  two 
next  days  we  made  fiiort  journies,  vifiting  friends.  The 
(u'entieth  we  had  a  great  meeting  at  a  place  called  Severn, 
where  there  was  a  meeting-place,  but  not  large  enough  to 
hold  the  people.      Divers  chief  magiflrates  were  at  it,  with 


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many  other  confiderable  people,'  and  it  gave  them  generally 
great  fatisfa6lion.  Two  days  after  we  had  a  meeting  with 
fome  that  walked  diforderly,  and  had  good  fervice  in  it. 
Then  fpending  a  day  or  two  in  vifiting  friends,  we  paflTcd 
to  the  Weilern-lhore.  and  the  twenty-fifth  had  a  large  and 
precious  meeting  at  William  Coale's,  where  the  fpeaker  of 
their  affembly,  with  his  wife,  a  juftice  of  peace,  and  feveral 
people  of  quality,  were  prefent.  Next  day  we  had  a  meet- 
ing, fix  or  feven  miles  further,  at  Abraham  Birkhead's, 
where  many  of  the  magiflrates  and  upper  fort  were;  and 
the  fpraker  of  the  alfembly  for  that  country  was  convinced. 
A  blelled  meeting  it  was  ;  praifed  be  the  Lord !  We  tra- 
velled next  day ;  and  the  day  following,  the  twenty-eighth, 
of  the  eighth  month,  had  a  large  and  very  precious  meeting 
at  Peter  Sharp's,  on  the  Clifts,  between  thirty  and  forty 
miles  diftant  from  the  former.  Many  of  the  magiflrates  and 
upper  rank  of  people  were  prefent,  and  a  heavenly  meeting 
it  was.  One  of  the  governor's  council's  wives  was  con- 
vinced ;  and  her  hufband  was  very  loving  to  friends.  A 
juftice  of  peace  from  Virginia  was  convinced,  and  hath  a 
meeting  fince  at  his  houfe.  Some  Papifl:s  were  at  this  meet- 
ing, one  of  whom  threatened,  before  he  came,  to  difpute 
with  me ;  but  he  was  reached,  and  could  not  oppofe. 
Bleffed  be  the  Lord,  the  truth  reached  into  the  hearts  of 
people  beyond  words,  and  it  is  of  a  good  fa\'Our  amongll 
them  !  After  the  meeting  we  went  about  eighteen  miles  to 
James  Preilon's,  a  friend  that  lived  on  Fatuxent  River. 
Thither  came  an  Indian  king,  with  his  brother,  to  whom  I 
fpoke,  and  I  found  they  underflood  the  thing  I  fpoke  of. 
Having  finifhed  our  fervice  in  Maryland,  and  mtending  for 
Virginia,  we  had  a  meeting  at  Patuxent  the  fourth  of  the 
ninth  month,  to  take  our  leave  of  triends.  Many  people  of 
all  forts  were  at  it,   and  a  powerful  meeting  it  was. 

The  fifth  of  the  ninth  month  we  fet  fail  for  Virginia,  and 
in  three  days  came  to  Nancemum,  about  two  hundred  miles 
frotn  Maryland.  In  this  voyage  we  met  with  foul  weather, 
ftorms,  and  rain,  and  lay  in  the  woods  by  a  fire  in  the 
night.  flere  lived  a  friend,  called  the  widow  Wright. 
Next  day  we  had  a  great  m^eeting  at  Nancemum,  of  friends 
and  others.  There  came  to  this  meeting  colonel  Dewe.s, 
\\'ith  feveral  other  officers  and  magiflrates,  who  were  much 
taken  with  the  declaration  of  truth.  After  the  meeting,  we 
liaflened  towards  Carolina  ;  yet  had  feveral  meetings  by  the 
wav,  wherein  we  had  good  fervice  for  the  Lord :  cnc  about 


i6o  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1673 

four  miles  from  Nancemum  Water,  which  was  very  pre- 
cious ;  and  there  was  a  men's  and  a  women's  meeting  fet- 
tled, for  the  affairs  of  the  church.  Another  very  good  meet- 
ing we  had  at  William  Yarrow's,  at  Pagan  Creek;  which 
was  fo  large  that  we  were  fain  to  be  abroad,  the  houfe  not 
being  big  enough  to  contain  the  people.  A  great  opennefs 
there  was,  the  found  of  truth  fpread  abroad,  and  had  a 
good  favour  in  the  hearts  of  people  :  the  Lord  have  the 
glory  for  ever  ! 

After  this,  our  way  to  Carolina  grew  worfe,  being  much 
of  it  plafhy,  and  pretty  full  of  great  bogs  and  fwamps ;  fo 
that  we  were  commonly  wet  to  the  knees,  and  lay  abroad 
a-nights  in  the  woods  by  a  fire  :  faving  one  of  the  nights 
we  got  to  a  poor  houfe  at  Sommertown,  and  lay  by  the  fire. 
The  woman  of  the  houfe  had  a  fenfe  of  God  upon  her. 
The  report  of  our  travel  had  reached  thither,  and  drawn 
fome  that  lived  beyond  Sommertown  to  that  houfe,  in  ex- 
pe6lation  to  have  feen  and  heard  us ;  but  they  miffed  us. 
Next  day,  the  twenty-fivit  of  the  ninth  month,  having  tra- 
velled hard  through  the  woods,  and  over  many  bogs  and 
fwamps,  we  reached  Bonner's  Creek ;  there  we  lay  that 
night  by  the  fire-fide  the  woman  lending  us  a  mat  to  lie  on. 

This  was  the  firft  houfe  we  came  to  in  Carolina :  here 
we  left  our  horfes,  over-wearied  with  travel.  From  hence 
we  went  down  the  creek  in  a  canoe  to  Macocomocock  Ri- 
ver, and  came  to  Hugh  Smith's,  where  people  of  other 
profeffions  came  to  fee  us  (no  friends  inhabiting  that  part 
of  the  country)  and  many  of  them  received  us  gladly. 
Amongfl  others,  came  Nathaniel  Batts,  who  had  been  go- 
vernor of  Roanoak.  He  went  by  the  name  of  captain 
Batts,  and  had  been  a  rude,  defperate  man.  He  alked  me 
about  a  woman  in  Cumberland,  who,  he  faid,  he  was  told, 
had  been  healed  by  our  prayers  and  laying  on  of  hands, 
after  fhe  had  been  long  fick,  and  given  over  by  the  phyfi- 
cians  :  he  defired  to  know  the  certainty  of  it.  I  told  him, 
we  did  not  glory  in  fuch  things,  but  many  fuch  things  had 
been  done  by  the  power  of  Chrift. 

Not  far  from  hence  we  had  a  meeting  among  the  people, 
and  they  were  taken  with  the  truth  ;  bleffed  be  the  Lord  ! 
Then  paffing  down  the  river  Maratick  in  a  canoe,  we  went 
down  the  bay  Connie-oak.  to  a  captain's^  who  was  loving  to 
us,  and  lent  us  his  boat  (for  we  were  much  wetted  in  the 
canoe,  the  water  flafhing  in  upon  us.)  With  this  boat  wc 
went  to  the  governor's  ;  but  the  water  in  fome  places  wa5> 


1672]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  i6t 

fo  fhallov/,  that  the  boat,  being  loaden,  could  not  fvvim ;  i'o 
that  we  put  ofF  cmr  jflioes  and  ftockings,  and  waded  through 
the  water  a  pretty  way.  The  governor,  with  his  wife,  re- 
ceived us  lovingly ;  but  a  doftor  there  would  needs  difputc 
with  us.  And  truly  his  oppohng  us  v\-as  of  good  fervice, 
giving  occafion  for  the  opening  of  many  things  to  the  people 
concerning  the  Light  and  Spirit  of  God,  which  he  denied 
to  be  in  every  one;  and  affirmed  it  was  not  in  the  Indians. 
Whereupon  I  called  an  Indian  to  us,  and  aiked  him, 
'  Whether  or  no,  when  he  did  lie,  or  do  wrong  to  any  one, 
'  there  was  not  fomething  in  him  that  did  reprove  him  for 
'  it  ?'  He  faid,  '  There  was  fuch  a  thing  in  him,  that  did 
'  fo  reprove  him ;  and  he  was  alhamed  when  he  had  done 
'  wrong,  or  fpoken  wrong.'  So  we  fhamed  the  doctor  be- 
fore the  governor  and  people  ;  infomuch  that  the  poor  man 
ran  out  fo  far,  that  at  length  he  would  not  own  the  fcrip- 
tures.  We  tarried  at  the  governor's  that  night ;  and  next 
morning  he  very  courteoully  walked  with  us  himfclf  about 
two  miles  through  the  woods,  to  a  place  whither  he  had  fent 
our  boat  about  to  meet  us.  Taking  leave  of  him,  we  en- 
tered our  boat,  and  went  about  thirty  miles  to  Jofeph  Scot's, 
One  of  the  reprefentatives  of  the  country.  There  we  had  a 
found,  precious  meeting;  the  people  were  tender,  and  much 
delired  after  meetings.  Wherefore  at  an  houfe  about  four 
miles  further,  we  had  another  meeting ;  to  which  the  gover- 
nor's fecretary  came,  who  was  chief  fecretary  of  the  pro- 
vince, and  had  been  formerly  convinced. 

I  went  from  this  place  among  the  Indians,  and  fpoke  to 
them  by  an  interpreter,  (hewing  them,  '  Thafi  God  made  all 
'  things  in  fix  days,  and  made  but  one  woman  for  one  man  ; 
^  and  that  God  did  drown  the  old  world  becaufe  of  their 
'  wickednefs.  Afterwards  I  fpoke  to  them  concerning  Chrift, 
'  fliewing  them,  that  he  died  for  all  men,  for  their  lins,  as 
'  well  as  for  others;  and  had  enlightened  them  as  well  as 
'  othei-s  ;  and  that  if  they  did  that  which  was  evil  he  would 
'  burn  them  ;  but  if  they  did  well  they  fhould  not  be  burn- 
'  ed.'  There  was  among  them  their  young  king  and  others 
of  their  chief  men,  who  feemcd  to  receive  kindly  what  I 
faid  to  them. 

Having  vifited  thsC  north  part  of  Carolina,  and  made  a 
little  entrance  for  truth  upon  the  pt^ople  there,  we  began  to 
return  again  towards  Virginia,  having  feveral  meetings  in 
our  way,  wherein  we  had  good  fervice  for  the  Lord,  the 
people  being  generally   tender  and  open ;    blefll-d    be   thf 

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i6i  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1672 

Lord  !  We  lay  one  night  at  the  fecretary's,  to  which  we  had 
much  ado  to  get ;  for  the  water  being  fhallow,  we  could 
not  bring  our  boat  to  fhore.  But  the  fecretary's  wife,  fee- 
ing our  ilrait,  came  herfelf  in  a  canoe  (her  hufband  being 
from  home)  and  brought  us  to  land.  By  next  morning  our 
boat  was  funk,  and  full  of  water  ;  but  we  got  her  up,  mend- 
ed her,  and  went  away  in  her  that  day  about  twenty-four 
miles,  the  water  being  rough,  and  the  winds  high  :  but  the 
great  power  of  God  was  feen,  in  carrying  us  fafe  in  that  rot- 
ten boat.  In  our  return  we  had  a  very  precious  meeting  at 
Hugh  Smith's;  praifed  be  the  Lord  for  ever!  The  people 
were  very  tender,  and  very  good  fervice  we  had  amongft 
them.  There  was  at  this  meeting  an  Indian  captain,  who 
was  very  loving ;  and  acknowledged  it  to  be  truth  that 
was  fpoken.  There  was  alfo  one  of  the  Indian  priefts, 
whom  they  called  a  Pauwaw,  who  fat  foberly  among  the 
people.  The  ninth  of  the  tenth  month  we  got  back  to 
Bonner's-Creek,  where  we  had  left  our  horfes  ;  having  fpent 
about  eighteen  days  in  the  north  of  Carolina. 

Our  horfes  having  refted,  we  fet  forward  for  Virginia 
again,  travelling  through  the  woods  and  bogs  as  far  as  we 
could  well  reach  that  day,  and  at  night  lay  by  a  fire  in  the 
woods.  Next  day  we  had  a  tedious  journey  through  bogs 
and  fwamps,  and  were  exceeding  wet  and  dirty  all  the  day, 
but  dried  ourfelves  at  night  by  a  fire.  We  got  that  night  to 
Sommertown.  When  we  came  near  the  houfe,  the  woman 
of  the  houfe  feeing  us,  fpoke  to  her  fon  to  keep  up  their 
dogs  (for  both  in  Virginia  and  Carolina  they  generally  keep 
great  dogs  to  guard  their  houfes,  living  lonely  in  the  woods) 
but  the  fon  faid,   '  He  need  not,  for  their  dogs  did  not  ufe 

*  to  meddle  with  thefe  people,'  Whereupon,  when  we  were 
come  into   the  houfe,  fhe  told  us,  '  We  were  like  the  chil- 

*  dren  of  Ifrael,  whom  the  dogs  did  not  move  their  tongues 

*  againfl:.'  Here  we  lay  in  our  cloaths  by  the  fire,  «s  we 
had  done  many  a  night  before.  Next  day  we  had  a  meet- 
ing ;  for  the  people,  having  been  informed  of  us,  had  a  great 
dcfire  to  hear  us;  and  a  very  good  meeting  we  had  among 
them,  where  we  never  had  one  before  :  praifed  "be  the  Lord 
for  ever  !  After  the  meeting  wc  haftcd  away.  When  we  had 
rid  about  twenty  miles,  calling  at  a  houfe  to  enquire  the 
way,  the  people  defired  us  to  tarry  all  night  with  them ; 
which  v/e  did.  Next  day  we  came  among  friends,  after  wc 
had  travelled  about  an  hundred  miles  from  Carolina  into 
Virginia :  in  which  time  we  obferved  great  variety  of  cli- 


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mates,  having  paffed  in  a  few  days  from  a  very  cold  to  a  warm 
and  fpring-like  country.  But  the  power  of  the  Lord  is  the 
fame  in  all ;  is  over  all,  and  doth  reach  the  good  in  all ; 
praifed  be  the  Lord  for  ever ! 

We  fpent  about  three  weeks  in  travelling  through  Vir- 
ginia moftly  amongft  friends,  having  large  and  precious 
meetings  in  feveral  parts  of  the  country  ;  as  at  the  widow 
Wright's,  where  many  of  the  magi  Urates,  officers,  and  other 
high  people  came.  A  moft  heavenly  meeting  we  had ; 
wherein  tifie  power  of  the  Lord  was  fo  great,  that  it  ftruck  a 
dread  upon  the  affembly,  chained  all  down,  and  brought 
reverence  upon  the  people's  minds.  Among  the  officers 
was  a  major,  kinfman  to  the  prieft,  who  told  me,  '  The 
*  priefl  threatened  to  come  and  oppofe  us.'  But  the  Loid's 
power  was  too  ftrong  for  him,  and  flopped  him,  and  we 
were  quiet  and  peaceable.  The  people  were  wonderfully 
affe6led  with  the  teftimony  of  truth ;  blefTed  be  the  Lord 
for  ever !  Another  very  good  meeting  we  had  at  Cricka- 
trough,  at  which  many  confiderable  people  were,  who  had 
never  heard  a  friend  before  ;  and  they  were  greatly  fatisficd, 
praifed  be  the  Lord  !  We  had  alfo  a  very  good  and  fer- 
viceable  meeting  at  John  Porter's,  which  confifted  moflly 
of  other  people,  in  which  the  power  of  the  Lord  was  glori- 
oully  feen  and  felt,  and  it  brought  the  truth  over  all  the  bad 
walkers  and  talkers ;  bleffed  be  the  Lord !  Divers  other 
meetings  we  had,  and  many  opportunities  of  fervice  for  the 
Lord  amongft  the  people  where  we  came.  The  laft  week 
that  we  ftaid  we  fpent  fome  time  and  pains  among  friends, 
fweeping  away  that  which  was  to  be  fwept  out,  and  work- 
ing down  a  bad  fpirit  that  was  got  up  in  fome  :  and  bleffed 
for  ever  be  the  name  of  the  Lord !  he  it  is  that  gives  vi6lory 
over  all. 

Having  finifhed  what  feiTice  lay  upon  us  at  Virginia,  the 
thirtieth  of  the  tenth  month  we  fet  fail  in  an  open  (loop  for 
Maryland.  But  having  a  great  ftorm,  and  being  much 
wetted,  we  were  glad  to  get  to  ftiore  before  night ;  and, 
walking  to  an  houfe  at  Willoughby- Point,  we  got  lodging 
there  that  night.  The  woman  of  the  houfe  was  a  widow, 
a  very  tender  perfon.  She  had  never  received  friends  be- 
fore ;  but  fhe  received  us  very  kindly,  witJi  tears  in  her  eyes. 
We  returned  to  our  boat  in  the  morning,  and  hoifted  fail, 
getting  forward  as  faft  as  we  could  ;  but  towards  evening  a 
ftorm  riling,  the  wind  being  high,  we  had  much  ado  to  get 
to  ihorc  :  and  our  boat  being  open,  the  water  flallicd  oin^Oi 

K   2 


l64  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1672 

in,  and  fometimes  over  u.^  fo  that  we  were  fufficiently  wet- 
ted. Being  got  to  land,  we  made  a  fire  in  the  woods,  to 
warm  and  dry  us  ;  and  there  we  lay  all  that  night,  the 
wolves  howling  about  us.  The  firft  of  the  eleventh  month 
we  failed  again,  but  the  wind  being  againft  us,  we  made  but 
little  way  ;  and  were  fain  to  get  to  fhore  at  Point- Comfort, 
where  yet  we  found  but  fmall  comfort ;  for  the  weather  was 
fo  cold,  that  though  we  made  a  good  fire  in  the  woods  to 
lie  by,  our  water  that  we  had  got  for  ufe  was  frozen  near 
the  fire-fide.  We  made  to  lea  next  day ;  but  the  wind  be- 
ing ftrong  againfl  us,  we  advanced  but  little  ;  and  were  glad 
to  get  to  land  again,  and  travel  about  to  find  fome  houfe 
where  we  might  buy  provifions,  for  our  flore  waa  fpent. 
That  night  alfo  we  lay  in  the  woods  ;  fo  extreme  cold  was 
the  weatljer,  the  wind  blowing  high,  and  the  froft  and  fnow 
great,  that  it  was  hard  for  fome  to  abide  it.  The  third 
of  the  eleventh  month,  the  windfetting  pretty  fair,  we  fetch- 
ed it  up  by  failing  and  rowing,  and  got  to  Milford- Haven, 
where  we  lay  at  Richard  Long's  near  Quince's-Ifland.  Next 
day  we  palfed  by  Rappahannock-river,  where  dwell  much 
people;  and  friends  had  a  meeting  there-away  at  a  juftice's, 
who  had  formerly  been  at  a  meeting  where  I  was.  We 
paffed  over  Powtomack-river  alfo,  the  winds  being  high,  the 
water  very  rough,  the  weather  extreme  cold  ;  and  having  a 
meeting  there-away,  lome  were  convinced;  and  when  we 
parted  thence,  fome  of  our  company  went  amongft  them. 
We  ileered  our  courfc  for  Patuxcnt-river.  I  fat  at  the  helm 
mod  part,  of  the  da\%  and  fome  of  the  night.  About  the 
firfl  hour  m  the  morning  we  reached  James  Prefton's  on 
Patuxent-river,  which  is  accounted  about  two  hundred 
miles  trom  Nancemum  in  Virginia.  We  were  very  weary; 
yet  the  next  day,  being  the  firfl  of  the  week,  we  went  to  the 
meeting  not  far  from  thence.  The  fame  week  we  went  to 
an  Indian  king's  cabin,  where  fcveral  Indians  were,  with 
whom  we  had  a  pretty  opportunity  to  difcourfe,  and  they 
carried  then}ielves  very  ]o\  nigly.  We  went  alfo  that  week 
to  a  general  meeting  ;  from  thence  about  eighteen  miles  fur- 
ther to  John  Geary's,  where  we  had  a  very  precious  meet- 
ing ;  praifed  be  the  Lord  God  for  ever  !  After  this  the  cold 
grew  fo  exceeding  fh-up,  fuch  extreme  fro  If  and  fnowy  wea- 
ther beyond  what  was  ufual  in  that  country,  that  xve  could 
hardly  endure  to  be  in  it.  Neither  was  it  eafy  or  fafe  to  ftir 
abroad  :  yet  we  got  with  fome  diificulty  fix  miles  through 
the  fnow  to  John  Mayor's,  where  v,'c  met  with  fome  friends 


1672]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  165 

that  were  come  from  New- England,  whom  we  had  left  there 
when  we  came  away ;  and  glad  we  were  to  fee  each  other, 
after  fuch  long  and  tedious  travels.  By  thefe  friends  we 
underftood  William  Edmundfon,  having  been  H  Rhode- 
Ifland  and  New-England,  was  gone  from  thence  for  Ire- 
land;  that  Solomon  Eccles  coming  from  Jamaica,  and 
landing  at  Bofton  in  New-England,  was  taken  at  a  meeting 
there,  and  banifhed  to  Barbadoes ;  that  John  Stubbs  and 
another  friend  were  gone  into  New-Jerfey,  and  feveral  othep 
friends  to  Barbadoes,  Jamaica,  and  the  Leeward  Iflands. 
It  was  matter  of  joy  to  us  to  underfland  the  work  of  the 
Lord  went  on  and  profpered,  and  that  friends  were  un- 
wearied and  diligent  in  the  fervice. 

The  twenty-feventh  of  the  eleventh  month  we  had  a  very 
precious  meeting  in  a  tobacco-houfe.  The  next  day  we 
returned  to  James  Prefton's,  about  eighteen  miles  diftant. 
When  we  came  there,  we  found  his  houfe  was  burnt  down 
to  the  ground  the  night  before,  through  the  carelellnefs  of  a 
maid-fervant ;  fo  we  lay  three  nights  on  the  ground  by  the 
fire,  the  weather  being  very  eold.  We  made  an  obfei-va- 
tion  which  was  fomewhat  ftrange,  but  certainly  true;  that 
one  day  in  the  midfl;  of  this  cold  weather,  the  wind  turning 
into  the  fouth,  it  grew  fo  hot,  that  we  could  hardly  bear  the 
heat;  and  the  next  day  and  night,  the  wind  chopping  back 
into  the  north,  we  could  hardly  endure  the  cold. 

The  fecond  of  the  twelfth  month  we  had  a  glorious  meet- 
ing at  Patuxent ;  and  after  it  went  to  John  Geary's  again, 
where  we  waited  for  a  boat  to  carry  us  to  the  monthly  meet- 
ing at  the  Clifts  ;  to  which  we  went,  and  a  living  meeting  it 
was ;  praifed  be  the  Lord  !  This  was  on  the  lixth  of  the 
twelfth  month.  Another  meeting  we  had  on  the  ninth, 
wherein  the  glory  of  the  Lord  Ihined  over  all ;  bleiTed  and 
magnified  be  his  holy  name  for  ever  ! 

The  twelfth  of  the  twelfth  month  we  fet  forward  in  our 
boat,  and,  travelling  by  night,  we  run  cur  bo^t  on  ground 
in  a  creek  near  Manaco  River.  There  we  ^v^ere  fain  to  fiay 
till  morning,  that  the  tide  came  and  lifted  lier  off.  In  the 
meantime  fitting  in  an  open  boat,  and  the  weather  being 
bitter  cold,  fome  had  like  to  have  loft  the  ufe  of  their 
hands,  they  were  fo  frozen  and  benumbed.  In  the  morn- 
ing, when  the  tide  fet  our  boat  a-fioat,  we  got  to  land,  and 
made  a  "ood  fire,  at  which  we  warmed  o'.irfelves  M^'ell,  and 
then  took  boat  and  palled  about  ten  miles  farther  fo  a 
friend's   houfe,   where  next   day   we  had   a  very  prcciou:; 


i66  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1670 

meeting,  at  which  fome  of  the  chief  of  the  place  were.  I 
went  after  the  meeting  to  a  friend's  about  four  miles  off,  at 
the  head  of  AnamelFy  River,  where  the  day  following  the 
judge  of  the  country  and  a  juftice  with  him  came  to  me, 
and  were  very  loving,  and  much  fatisfied  with  friends  or- 
der. The  next  day  we  had  a  large  meeting  at  the  juftice's 
in  his  barn,  for  his  houfe  could  not  hold  the  company. 
There  were  feveral  of  the  great  folks  of  that  country,  and 
among  the  reft  an  oppofer;  but  all  was  preferved  quiet  and 
well.  A  precious  meeting  it  was ;  the  people  were  much 
afFefted  with  the  truth;  bleffed  be  the  Lord!  We  went 
next  day  to  fee  captain  Colburn,  a  juftice  of  peace,  and 
there  we  had  fome  fervice.  Then  returning  again,  we  had 
a  very  glorious  meeting  at  the  juftices  where  we  met  before, 
to  which  came  many  people  of  account  in  the  world,  ma- 
giftrates,  officers,  and  others.  It  was  a  large  meeting,  and 
the  power  of  the  Lord  was  much  felt,  fo  that  the  people 
were  generally  well  fatisfied  and  taken  with  the  truth ;  and 
there  being  feveral  merchants  and  matters  of  fliips  from 
New- England,  the  truth  was  fpread  abroad ;  bleffed  be 
the  Lord  ! 

A  day  or  two  after  we  travelled  about  fixteen  miles 
through  the  woods  and  bogs  heading  Anameffy  River  and 
Amoroca  River,  part  of  which  we  went  over  in  a  canoe,  and 
came  to  Manaoke,  to  a  friendly  woman's  houfe,  wheie  on 
the  twenty-fourth  of  the  twelfth  month  we  had  a  large 
meeting  in  a  barn.  The  Lord's  living  prefence  was  with  us 
and  among  the  people ;  bleffed  be  his  holy  name  for  ever- 
more !  Friends  never  had  a  meeting  in  thofe  parts  before. 
After  this,  we  paffed  over  the  river  Wicocomaco,  and 
through  many  bad  watery  fwamps  and  marftiy  way,  and 
came  to  James  Jones's,  a  friend  and  a  juftice  of  the  peace, 
where  we  had  a  large  and  very  glorious  meeting ;  praifed 
be  the  Lord  God !  Then  paffmg  over  the  water  in  a  boat, 
wc  took  horfe,  and  travelled  about  twenty-four  miles  through 
woods  and  troublefome  fwamps,  and  came  to  another  juf- 
tice's  houfe,  where  we  had  a  very  large  meeting,  much  peo- 
ple and  many  of  confiderable  account  being  prefent;  and 
the  living  prefence  of  the  Lord  was  amongft  us;  praifed  for 
ever  be  his  holy  name!  This  was  the  third  of  the  firfl 
month  1672-3.  The  fifth  of  the  fame  we  had  anothelr 
4iving  and  heavenly  meeting,  at  which  divers  juftices  with 
their  wives  and  many  others  were;  amongft  whom  we  had 
very  ^'ood  Lrvicc  for  the  Lord;  bleffed  be  his  holy  name! 


5672.3]         GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL;  167 

At  this  meeting  was  a  woman  that  lived  at  AnameiTy,  who 
had  been  many  years  in  trouble  of  mind,  and  fomctimcs 
would  fit  moping  near  two  months  together,  and  hardly 
rpcak  or  mind  any  thing.  When  I  heard  of  her,  I  was 
moved  of  the  Lord  to  go  to  her,  and  tell  her,  *  That  fal- 
*  vation  was  come  to  her  houfe.'  After  I  had  fpoken  the 
word  of  life  to  her,  and  intreated  the  Lord  for  her,  (he 
mended,  went  up  and  down  with  us  to  meetings,  and  is 
fince  well ;  bleffed  be  the  Lord ! 

We  left  Anameffy  the  feventh  of  the  firft  month ;  and 
paffing  by  water  about  fifty  miles,  came  to  a  friendly  wo- 
man's houfe  at  Hunger  River.  We  had  very  rough  wea- 
ther in  our  paflage  to  this  place,  and  were  in  great  danger, 
for  the  boat  had  like  to  have  been  turned  over.  But 
through  the  good  providence  of  God  we  got  fafe  thither ; 
praifed  be  his  name !  At  this  place  we  had  a  meeting. 
Amongfl  the  people  were  two  Papifts,  a  man  and  a  wo- 
man ;  the  man  was  very  tender,  and  the  woman  confeffed 
to  the  truth.  I  had  no  friend  with  me  but  Robert  Wid- 
ders,  the  reft  having  difperfed  themfelves  into  feveral  parts 
of  the  country  in  the  fervice  of  truth. 

So  foon  as  the  wind  would  permit,  we  pafTed  from  hence 
about  forty  miles  by  water,  rowing  moft  part  of  the  way, 
and  came  to  the  head  of  Little  Choptanck  River,  to  Dr, 
Winfmore's,  a  juftice  of  peace,  lately  convinced.  Here  we 
met  with  fome  friends,  with  whom  we  ftaid  awhile,  and 
then  went  on  by  land  and  water,  and  had  a  large  meeting 
abroad,  for  the  houfe  we  were  at  could  not  receive  the  peo- 
ple. Divers  of  the  magiftrates  and  their  wives  were  pre- 
fent;  and  a  good  meeting  it  was;  bleffed  be  the  Lord,  who 
is  making  his  name  known  in  that  wildernefs  country  !  We 
went  from  thence  to  William  Stephens's,  where  we  met 
with  thofe  friends  that  had  been  travelling  in  other  parts ; 
and  were  much  refreflied  in  the  Lord  together,  when  wc 
imparted  to  each  other  the  good  fuccefs  we  had  in  the  Lord's 
work,  and  the  profperity  and  fpreading  of  truth  in  the  pla- 
ces where  we  travelled.  John  Cartwright  and  another  friend 
had  been  at  Virginia,  where  were  great  defires  in  people 
after  the  truth;  and  being  now  returned,  they  (laid  a  little 
with  us  here,  and  then  fet  forward  for  Barbadoes.  Before 
we  left  this  place;  we  had  a  very  glorious  meeting,  at  which 
were  many  people  ;  amongft  others,  the  judge  of  that  coun- 
try, three  juftices  of  the  peace,  and  the  high-flieriff,  with 
their  wives.     Of  the  Indians,  was  one  called  their  emperor, 


i68  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.        [1672-5 

an  Indian  king,  and  their  fpeaker,  who  fat  very  attentive, 
and  carried  themfelves  very  lovingly.  An  eftabhfhing,  fet- 
tling meeting  it  was.  This  was  the  twenty-third  of  the  firft 
month. 

The  twenty-fourth  we  went  by  water  ten  miles  to  the  In- 
dian town  where  this  emperor  dwelt;  whom  I  had  ac- 
quainted before  with  my  coming,  and  defired  to  get  their 
kings  and  councils  together.  In  the  morning  the  emperor 
came  himfclf,  and  had  me  to  the  town ;  where  they  were 
generally  come  together,  their  fpeaker  and  other  officers  be- 
ing with  them,  and  the  old  emprefs  fat  among  them.  They 
fat  very  grave  and  fober,  and  were  all  very  attentive,  be- 
yond many  called  Chriftians.  I  had  fome  with  me  that 
could  interpret  to  them.  We  had  a  very  good  meeting  with 
them,  and  of  confiderable  fervice  it  was ;  for  it  gave  them  a 
good  efteem  of  truth  and  friends ;  bleffed  be  the  Lord  ! 

After  this  we  had  meetings  in  feveral  parts  of  that  coun- 
try; one  at  William  Stephens's,  which  was  a  general  meeting 
once  a  month ;  another  at  Tredhaven  Creek,  another  at 
Wye,  another  at  Reconow  Creek,  and  another  at  Thomas 
Taylor's  in  the  ifland  of  Kent.  Moft  of  thefe  were  large, 
there  being  many  people  at  them,  and  divers  of  the  moft 
confiderable  in  the  world's  account.  The  Lord's  power 
and  living  prefcnce  was  with  us,  and  plenteoufly  manifefted 
amongft  the  people,  by  which  their  hearts  were  tendered, 
and  opened  to  receive  the  truth,  which  had  a  good  favour 
amongft  them  ;  bleffed  be  the  Lord  God  over  all  for  ever  ! 
Being  clear  of  that  fide,  we  palfed  over  the  bay  about  four- 
teen miles  to  a  friend's  houfe,  where  we  met  with  feveral 
friends.  I  fent  for  Thomas  Thurfton  thither,  and  had  a 
meeting  with  him,  to  bring  the  truth  over  his  bad  aftions. 

Having  travelled  through  moft  parts  of  that  country,  and 
vifited  moft  of  the  plantations,  having  alarmed  people  of 
all  forts  where  we  came,  and  proclaimed  the  day  of  God's 
falvation  amongft  them,  we  found  our  fpirits  began  to  be 
clear  of  thofe  parts  of  the  world,  and  to  draw  towards  Old 
Enghmd  again.  Yet  we  were  defirous  and  felt  freedom 
from  the  Lord  to  ftay  till  the  general  meeting  for  the  pro- 
vince of  Maryland  was  over  (u'hich  drew  nigh)  that  we 
might  fcjc  friends  generally  together  before  we  departed. 
"VVherefore  fpending  our  time  in  the  interim  in  vihting 
friends  and  friendly  people,  in  attending  meetings  about  the 
Cliffs  and  Patuxent,  in  writing  anfwers  to  fome  cavilling 
objL^dions  which  adverfaiics  had  raifcd  and  fpread  abroad 


tiSfs]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  h^^ 

to  hinder  people  from  receiving  the  truth  ;  we  were  not  idle, 
but  laboured  in  the  work  of  th»  Lord  until  that  general  pro- 
vincial meeting,  which  began  the  feventeenth  of  the  third 
month,  and  lafted  four  days.  The  firft  of  thefc  days  the 
men  and  women  had  their  meetings  for  bufmcfs,  wherein 
the  affairs  of  the  church  were  taken  care  of,  and  many 
things  relating  thereto  were  opened  to  their  edification  and 
comfort.  The  other  three  days  were  fpent  in  publick 
meetings  for  the  worfhip  of  God,  at  which  divers  of  con- 
fiderable  account  in  the  government,  and  many  others  were 
prefcnt ;  who  were  generally  fatisfied,  and  many  of  them 
reached ;  for  it  was  a  wonderful  glorious  meeting,  and  the 
mighty  prefence  of  the  Lord  was  feen  and  felt  over  all ; 
blefTed  and  praifed  be  his  holy  name  for  ever,  who  over 
all  giveth  dominion  I 

After  this  meeting  we  took  our  leave  of  friends,  parting 
in  great  tendernefs,  in  the  fenfe  of  the  heavenly  life  and 
virtuous  power  of  the  Lord  that  was  livingly  felt  amongft 
us,  and  went  by  water  to  the  place  where  we  were  to  take 
fhipping ;  many  friends  accompanying  us  thither  and  tar- 
rying with  us  that  night.  Next  day,  the  twenty-firfl  of  the 
third  month,  1673,  we  fet  fail  for  England:  the  fame  day- 
Richard  Covell  came  on  board  our  fhip,  his  own  being 
tdken  from  him  by  the  Dutch.  We  had  foul  weather  and 
contrary  winds,  which  caufed  us  to  cafl  anchor  often,  fo 
that  we  were  till  the  thirty-firfl  of  the  third  month  ere  we 
palTed  the  capes  of  Virginia  into  the  main  fea.  But  after 
this  we  made  good  fpeed,  and  the  twenty-eighth  of  the 
fourth  month  caft  anchor  at  King's  Road,  the  harbour  for 
Briflol.  We  had  in  our  palTage  very  high  winds  and  tern- 
peftuous  v/eathcr,  which  made  the  fca  exceeding  rough,  the 
waves  riling  like  mountains,  fo  that  the  mafters  and  failors 
wondered,  and  fciid,  '  They  never  law  the  like  before.'  But 
though  the  wind  was  flrong,  it  fat  for  the  mofl  part  with 
us,  fo  that  we  failed  before  it;  and  the  great  God  who  com- 
mands the  winds,  who  is  Lord  of  heaven,  earth,  and  the 
feas,  and  whofe  wonders  are  feen  in  the  deep,  fleered  ouf 
courfe,  and  preferved  us  from  many  imminent  dangers. 
The  fame  good  hand  of  Providence  that  went  with  us,  and 
carried  us  fafely  over,  watched  over  us  in  our  return,  and 
brought  us  fafely  back  again.  Thankf^givings  and  praifes 
be  to  his  holy  name  for  ever !  Many  fweet  and  precious 
meetings  we  had  on  board  the  fhip  during  this  voyaga- 
{commonly  two  a  week)  wherein  the  blefTed  prefence  ot  thd 

Vol.  n,  Y 


^ 


17©  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1673 

Lord  did  greatly  refrefh  us,  and  often  break  in  upon  and 
tender  the  company.  When  we  came  into  Briftol  harbour, 
there  lay  a  man  of  war,  and  the  prefs-mafter  came  on  board 
to  imprefs  our  men.  We  had  a  meeting  at  that  time  in 
the  fhip  with  the  feamen,  before  we  went  to  ftiore ;  and  the 
prefs-mafter  fat  down  with  us,  flaid  the  meeting,  and  was 
well  fatisfied  with  it.  After  the  meeting  I  fpoke  to  him  to 
leave  two  of  the  men  he  had  impreffed  in  our  fhip  (for  he 
had  impreffed  four)  one  of  which  was  a  lame  man ;  he  faid, 

*  At  my  requeft;  he  would.' 

We  went  on  fhore  that  afternoon,  and  got  to  Shear- 
hampton.  We  procured  horfes,  and  rode  to  Briftol  that 
night,  where  friends  received  us  with  great  joy.  In  the 
evening  I  wrote  a  letter  to  my  wife,  to  give  her  notice  of 
my  landing. 

'  Dear  heart, 

*  '  I  ^HIS  day  we  came  into  Briftol,  near  night,  from  the 

*  JL    fea ;  glory  to  the  Lord  God  over  all  for  ever,  who 

*  was  our  convoy,  and  fteered  our  courfe !  who  is  the  God 

*  of  the  whole  earth,  of  the  feas  and  winds,   and  made  the 

*  clouds  his  chariots,  beyond  all  words,  bleffed  be  his  name 

*  for  ever !     He  is  over  all  in  his  great  power  and  wifdom, 

*  Amen.     Robert  Widders  and  James  Lancafter  are  with 

*  me,  and  we  are  well.      Glory  to  the  Lord  for  ever,  who 

*  hath  carried  us  through  many  perils,  perils  by  water,  and 
'  in  ftorms,  perils  by  pirates  and  robbers,  perils  in  the  wil- 

*  dernefs,  and  amongll  falfe  profeffors;  praifes  lo  him  whofe 
'  glory  is  over  all  for  ever,  Amen  !  Therelore  mmd  the 
'  frefti  life,  and  all  live  to  God  in  it.  I  intend  (if  the  Lord 
'  will)  to  ftay  awhile  this  way.     It  may  be  till  the  fair.     So 

*  no  more,  but  mv  love  to  all  friends. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  Briftol,  the  28th  of  the 
*  4th  month,  1673.' 

Between  this  and  the  fair  my  wife  came  out  of  the  north 
to  Briftol,  and  her  fon-in-law  Thomas  Lower  with  two  of 
her  daughters  with  her.  Her  other  fon-in-law  John  Roufe, 
W.  Penn  and  his  wife,  and  Gerrard  Roberts  came  from 
London,  and  many  friends  from  feveral  parts  of  the  nation 
to  the  fair,  and  glorious  powerful  meetings  we  had  there ; 
for  the  Lord's  infinite  power  and  life  was  overall.  In  the 
frefli  openings  whereof  I  was  moved  to  declare  of  Three 


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Eftates  and  Three  Teachers,  viz.  '  God  was  the  firft  teach- 

*  er  of  man  and  woman  in  paradife ;  and  as  long  as  they 

*  kept  to  and  under  his  teaching,  they  kept  in  the  image  of 

*  God,  in  his  likenefs,  in  righteoufnefs  and  hoHnefs,  and  in 

*  dominion  over  all  that   God  had   made  ;  in  the  bleffed 

*  ftate,  in  the  paradife  of  God.  But  when  they  hearkened  to 
'  the  ferpent's  falfe  teaching  (who  was  out  of  truth)  difobey- 

*  ed  God,  and  obeyed  the  ferpent,  in  feeding  upon  that 
'  which  God  forbad;  they  lofl  the  image  of  God,  the  righ- 
'  teoufnefs  and  holinefs,   came  under  the  power  of  Satan, 

*  and  were  turned  out  of  paradife,  out  of  the  bleffed  into  the 

*  curfed  ftate.  Then  the  promife  of  God  was,  "  That  the 
"  Seed  of  the  woman  fhould  bruife  the  ferpent's  head," 
'  break  his  power  that  man  and  woman  were  under,  and 
'  deftroy  his  works.  So  here  were  Three  States  and  Three 
'  Teachers.      God  was  the  Firft  Teacher  in  paradife;  and 

*  whilft  man  kept  under  his  teaching,  he  was  happy.  The 
'  ferpent  was  the  fecond  teacher;  and  when  man  followed 

*  his  teaching,  he  fell  into  mifery,  into  the  fall  from  the  imags 

*  of  God,  righteoufnefs,  and  holinefs,  and  from  the  powtr 

*  that  he  had  over  all  that  God  had  made ;  and  came  under 

*  the  ferpent  whom  he  had  power  over  before.  Chrift  Jcfas 
'  was  the  Third  Teacher;  of  whom  God  faith,  "  This  is 
"  my  beloved  Son,  in  whom  I  am  well  pleafed,  hear  ye 
"  him  :"  and  who  himfelf  faith,  "  Learn  of  me."  This  is 
'  the  true  gofpel-teacher,   who  bruifes  the  head  of  the  fer- 

*  pent  the  falfe  teacher,  and  the  head  of  all  mlfe  teachers 
'  and  falfe  religions,  falfe  ways,  falfe   worfhips,    and  falfe 

*  churches.     Chrift,  who  faid,  "  Learn  of  me,"  and  of  whom 

*  the  Father  faid,  "  Hear  ye  him,"  faid,  "  I  am  the  way  to 
"  God,    I  am  the  truth,  I  am  the  life,  and  the  true  light." 

*  So  as  man  and  woman  come  to  God,  and  are  renewed  up 

*  into  his  image,  righteoufnefs^  and  holinefs  by  Chrift,  there- 
«  by  they  come  into  the  paradife  of  God,  the  ftate  which 
'  man  was  in  before  he  fell ;  and  into  an  higher  ftate  than 
'  that,  to  fit  down  in  Chrift  who  never  fell.     Therefore  the 

*  Son  of  God  is  to  be  heard  in  all  things,  who  is  the  Saviour 

*  and  the  Redeemer ;  who  hath  laid  down  his  life,  and 
'  bought  his  fheep  with  his  precious  blood.  We  can  chal- 
*'  lenge  all  the  world.  Who  hath  any  thing  to  fay  againft 
'our  way?  our  Saviour?  our  Redeemer  ?  our  Prophet, 
'  whom  God  hath  raifed  up  that  we  may  hear,  and  whom 
'  we  muft  hear  in  all  things  ?  "Who  hath  any  thing  againft 
'  our  Shepherd,  Chrift  jefus,   who  leads  and  feeds  us,  and 

Y    2 


iji  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1673 

'  we  know  his  heavenly  voice  ?   Who  hath  any  thing  againft 

*  our  Biftiop,  in  whofe  mouth  was  never  guile  found,  who 
'  doth  overfee  us  in  his  paflnre  of  life,  that  we  do  not  go 

*  aftray  out  of  his  fold  ?    Who  hath  any  thing  againft  our 

*  Prieft,   Chrift  Jefus,  made  higher  than  the  heavens,  who 

*  gives  us  freely,  and  commands  us  to  give  freely  ?  Who 
'hath  any  thing  to  f^iy  againft  our  Leader  and  Counfellor, 
'  Chrift  Jefus,  who  never  linned,  but  is  holy,  harmlefs,  and 

*  feparate  from  finners  ?  God  hath  commanded  us  to  hear 
'  him,  and  he  faith,  "  Learn  of  me;"  and  if  we  fhould 
'  difobey   God's  and   Chrift's  command,  we  fhould  be  like 

*  our  father  Adam  and  mother  Eve,  who  difobeyed  God's 
'  command,  and  hearkened  to  the  fcrpent's  teaching.     Man 

*  commands,  and  would  force  us  to  hear  the  hirelings,  who 
'  plead  for  fin   and  the  body  of  death  to  the  grave ;   which 

*  dodrine  favours  of  the  devil's  teaching,  not  of  Chrift's  | 

*  but  we  refolve  to  hear  the  Son,  as  both  the  Father  and  he 
'  command  ;  and  in  hearing  the  Son,  we  hear  the  Father 
^  alio,  as  the  fcripture  teftifies.      For  the  author  to  the  He- 

*  brews  fays,  '*  God,  who  at  fundry  times  and  in  divers 
"  manners  fpake  in  time  paft  unto  the  fathers  by  the  pro- 
*'  phcts,  hath  in  thefe  laft  days  fpoken  unto  us  by  his  Son:" 

*  Mark  that,    God  hath  fpoken  unto  us  (his  apoftles,  difci- 

*  pies,   and  church)  by  his  Son.      And  whereas  fome  have 

*  objefted,  "■  That  although  Chrift  did  fpeak  both  to  his 
*'  difciples  and  to  the  |ews  in  the  days  of  his  flefh,  yet  fmce 
*'  his  refurreftion  and   afccnfion  he  doth  not  fpeak  now  ;" 

*  the  anfwer  is,  as  God  dicj  then  fpeak  by  his  Son  in  the 

*  days  of  his  fl-jfh,  fo  the  Son,  Chrift  Jefus,  doth  now  fpeak, 
'  by  his  Spirit.  Wherefore  John  faith  in  the  Revelations, 
'•  lie  that  hath  an  ear,  let  him  hear  what  the  Spirit  faith  to 
"the  churches,"-  Rev.  ii.  And  Chrift  is  laid  to  "  fpeak 
*'  from  heaven,"  Meb.  xii.  25.  "  See  that  ye  refufe  not 
"  him  that  fpeaketh  ;  for  if  they  efcaped  not  who  refufed 
"  him  that  fpake  on  earth,  much  more  ftiall  not  we  efcape 
"■  if  we  turn  away  from  him  that  fpeaketh  from  heaven.** 
'  Thay  that  rehfted  Mofes's  law  (who  fpake  on  earth)  died 
^  for  it  without  mercy,  which  was  a  natural  death;  but  they 
'  that  refufe  him  tliat  fpcaks  from  heaveii,  negletl  and  flight 

*  their  own  lalvation,  and  fo  die  a  fpiritual  death,  through 

*  unbelief  an.d  hardnefs  of  heart.  Therefore  was  the  exhor- 
<  tation  given  of  old,  "  To-day,  if  ye  will  hear  his  voice, 
<'  harden  not  your  hearts,  as  in  the  provocation."  &c.  Heb. 
^  iij.  J 5.  &c.     They,  who  negledl;  or  refufe  to  hear  the  vpiee 


1673]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  173 

*  of  Chrifl  now  fpeaking  from  heaven  in  this  his  gofpcl-day, 
'  harden  their  hearts.     Therefore  let  all  mark   well  thef« 

*  three  ftates  and  teachers :   the  God  of  truth  was  the  firft 

*  teacher,  while  man  was  in  paradife  and  in  innocence.    The 

*  ferpent  was  the  fecond  teacher,  the  falfe  teacher,  who  by 

*  his  falfe  teaching  came  to  be  the  god  of  the  world  which 

*  lies  in  wickednefs.      Chrift  Jefus,  that  bruifes  the  lerpent's 

*  head,  is  the  third  teacher,  who  faith,  "  Learn  of  me ;"  of 
'  whom  God  faith,  "  This  is  my  beloved  Son,  in  whom  I 
"  am  well  pleafed,  hear  ye  him ;"  and  of  whom  the  tefti- 
'  mony  of  the  faints  of  old  was,  "  That  God  hath  in  thefe 
"  laft  days  fpoken  unto  us  by  his  Son."     Thus  they,  that 

*  come  to  be  renewed  up  again  into  the  divine  heavenly 
'  image  in  which  man  was  at  firft  made,  will  know  the  fame 
'  God,  that  was  the  firft  teacher  of  Adam  and  Eve  in  para- 

*  dife,  to  fpeak  to  them  now  by  his  Son,  who  changes  not ; 

*  glory  be  to  his  name  for  ever  !' 

Many  deep  and  precious  things  were  opened  in  thofe 
meetings  by  the  eternal  Spirit  which  fearcheth  and  reveal- 
eth  the  deep  things  of  God,  After  I  had  finiftied  my  fer- 
vice  for  the  Lord  in  that  city,  I  departed  into  Gloucefter- 
fhire,  where  we  had  many  large  and  precious  meetings ;  and 
the  Lord's  everlafting  power  flowed  over  all.  P'rom  Glou- 
cefterftiire  I  pafled  into  Wiltfhire,  where  alfo  we  had  many 
bleffed  meetings.  At  Slattenford  in  Wiltfhire  we  had  a  very 
good  meeting,  though  we  met  with  much  oppofition  from 
lome,  who  had  fet  themfelves  againft  women's  meetings ; 
which  I  was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  recommend  to  friends, 
for  the  benefit  of  the  church  of  Chrift.  '  That  faithful  wo- 
'  men,  called  to  the  belief  of  the  truth,  made  partakers  of 
'  the  fame  precious  faith,  and  heirs  of  the  fame  everlafting 

*  gofpel  of  life  and  falvation  as  the  men  are,  might  in  like 

*  manner  come  into  the  pofleflion  and  praftice  of  the  gofpel- 
'  order,  and  therein  be  meet  helps  unto  the  men  in  the  re- 
'  ftoration,  in  the  fervice  of  truth,  in  the  affairs  of  the 
'  church,  as  they  are  outwardly  in  civil  or  temporal  things. 
'  That  fo  all  the  family  of  God,  women  as  well  as  men, 
'  might  know,  poflefs,  perform,  and  difcharge  their  offices 

*  and  fervices  in  the  houfe  of  God,  whereby  the  poor  might 

*  be  the  better  taken  care  of;  the  younger  fort  inftrufted, 
'  informed,  and  taught  in  the  way  of  God;  the  loofe  and 

*  diforderly  reproved  and  admoniftied  in  the  fear  of  the 
'  Lord  ;  the  clearnefs  of  perfons  propofing  marriage,  more 

*  clofcly  and  ftn6ily  inquired  into  in  the  wifdom  of  God^ 


,74  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1673 

'  and  all  the  members  of  the  fplritual  body  the  church  might 
'  watch  over  and  be  helpful  to  each  other  in  love.'  After 
thefe  oppofers  had  ran  into  much  contention  and  wrangling, 
the  power  of  the  Lord  flruck  down  one  of  the  chief  of  them, 
fo  that  his  fpirit  funk,  and  he  came  to  be  fenfible  of  the 
evil  he  had  done,  m  oppohng  God's  heavenly  power,  con- 
feffed  his  error  before  friends,  and  afterwards  gave  forth  a 
paper  of  condemnation,  wherein  he  declared,  '  That  he 
'  did  v/ilfally  oppofe  (although  I  often  warned  him  to  take 
'  heed)  until  the  fire  of  the  Lord  did  burn  within  him,  and 
'  he  faw  the  angel  of  the  Lord  with  his  fword  drawn  in  his 
*  hand,  ready  to  cut  him  off,'  &c, 

Notwithflanding  the  oppofition  was  made  at  the  meeting, 
yet  a  very  good  and  ferviceable  meeting  it  was ;  lor  occa- 
fion  was  thereby  adminiftered  to  anfwer  their  objeftions 
and  cavils,  and  to  open  the  fervices  of  women  in  and  for 
the  church.  At  this  meeting  the  women's  meetings  for 
that  county  were  eftablifbed  in  the  bleffed  power  of  God. 

After  this  I  went  to  Marlborough,  and  had  a  meeting 
there,  to  which  fome  of  the  magiftrates  came,  and  were  civil 
and  moderate.  Then  paffing  to  Bartholomew  Maylin's,  I 
had  a  very  precious  meeting  there.  From  thence  went  a  lit- 
tle beyond  Ore,  where  we  had  a  bleffed  meeting,  and  very 
large,  as  we  had  alfo  foon  after  upon  the  border  of  Hamp- 
ihire.  Then  turning  into  Oxfordfhire,  we  vifited  friends 
there  ;  then  went  to  Reading  where  we  had  a  large  meeting. 
Yrom  thence  paffmg  into  Buckinghamfhire,  we  had  many 
precious  meetings  in  that  county.  After  which  we  vifited 
friends  till  we  came  to  Kingfton  upon  Thames,  where  my 
wife  and  her  daughter  Rachel  met  me. 

I  made  no  long  llay  at  Kingfton,  but  went  to  London, 
where  I  found  the  Baptifts  and  Socinians,  with  fome  old 
apoftates,  grown  very  rude,  havhig  printed  many  books 
againft  us  :  fo  I  had  a  great  travail  in  the  Lord's  power, 
before  I  could  get  clear  of  that  city.  But  bleffed  be  the 
Lord,  his  power  came  over  them,  and  all  their  lying,  wic- 
ked, fcandalous  books  were  anfwered.  I  made  a  Ihort 
journey  into  fome  parts  of  Effex  and  Middlefex,  vifiting 
friends  at  their  micetings,  and  their  children  at  the  fchools, 
and  returned  foon  to  London.  After  fome  fervice  there 
among  friends,  I  went  to  Kingfton,  and  from  thence  to 
Stephen  Smith's,  in  Surrey,  where  was  a  very  large  meet- 
ing, many  hundreds  of  people  attending  it.  I  ftaid  in 
ihofe  parts  till  I  had  cleared  myfclf  of  the  feivice  ths  Lord 


?673]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  175 

had  given  me  to  do  there,  and  then  returned  by  Kinrrfton 
to  London,  whither  I  felt  my  fpirit  drawn ;  having  heard 
that  many  friends  were  taken  before  the  magiflrates,  and  di- 
vers imprifoned,  both  in  London  and  in  other  parts  of  the 
nation,  tor  opening  their  fhop-windows  upon  holy-days  and 
faft-days  (as  they  were  called)  and  for  bearing  teftimony 
againft  all  fuch  obfervation  of  days.  Which  friends  could 
not  but  do,  knowing  that  the  true  Chriflians  did  not  obferve 
the  Jews  holy-days  in  the  apoflles  times,  neither  could  we 
obferve  the  Heathens  and  Papifts  holy  days  (fo  called) 
which  have  been  fet  up  amongft  thofe  called  Chriftians  fmce 
ihe  apoftles  days.  For  we  were  redeemed  out  of  days  by 
Chrift  Jeius,  and  brought  into  the  day  which  hath  iprung 
from  on  high,  and  are  come  into  him,  who  is  Lord  of  the 
Jewifti  fabbath,  and  the  fubftance  of  the  Jews  figns. 

After  I  had  ftaid  fome  time  in  London,  labouring  for 
fome  relief  and  eafe  to  friends  in  this  cafe,  I  went  with  my 
wife,  and  her  daughter  Rachel,  to  Hendon,  in  Middlefex, 
and  from  thence  to  William  Penn's  at  Rickmanfworth,  in 
Hertfordfhire,  whither  Thomas  Lower,  who  married  an- 
other of  my  wife's  daughters,  came  the  next  day  to  accom- 
pany us  in  our  journey  northward.  After  we  had  vifited 
friends  thereabouts,  we  palTed  to  a  friend's  houfe  near  Aylef- 
bury ;  and  from  thence  to  Bray  Doily's  at  Adderbury,  in 
Oxfordfhire,  where,  on  firft-day,  we  had  a  large  and  pre- 
cious meeting.  Truth  being  well  fpread,  and  friends  in 
thofe  parts  much  increafed  in  number,  two  or  three  new 
meetings  were  then  fet  up  thereabouts. 

At  night,  as  I  was  fitting  at  fupper,  I  felt  I  was  taken ; 
yet  I  faid  nothing  to  any  body  of  it  then.  But  getting  out 
next  morning,  we  travelled  into  Worceflerfhire.  and  went 
to  John  Halford's  at  Armfcot,  in  Tredington  parifh  ;  where 
we  had  a  very  large  and  precious  meeting  in  his  barn,  the 
Lord's  powerful  prefence  being  eminently  with  and  amongft 
us.  Alter  the  meeting,  friends  being  moll  of  them"  gone,  as 
I  was  fitting  in  the  parlour,  difcourling  with  fome  friends, 
Henry  Parker,  a  juftice,  came  to  the  houfe,  and  with  him 
Rowland  Hains,  a  prieft  of  Hunniton,  in  Warwickfiiire. 
This  juftice  came  to  know  of  the  meeting  by  means  of  a 
woman-friend,  who,  being  nurfe  to  a  child  of  his,  afkcd 
leave  of  her  miftrefs  to  go  to  the  meeting  to  fee  me;  and 
ftie  fpeakmg  of  it  to  her  hafband,  he  and  the  prieft  plotted 
together  to  break  up  the  meeting,  and  apprehend  me.  But 
by  means  of  their  htting  long  at  dinner,  it  being  the  day  on 


176  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1673 

which  his  child  was  fprinkled,  they  came  not  till  the  meet- 
ing was  over,  and  friends  moftly  gone.  But  though  there 
was  no  meeting  when  they  came,  yet  I  being  in  the  houfe, 
who  was  the  perfon  they  aimed  at,  Henry  Parker  took  me, 
and  Thomas  Lower  for  company  with  me,  and  though  he 
had  nothmg  to  lay  to  our  charge,  fent  us  both  to  Worceller 
gaol,  by  a  flrange  fort  of  mittimus  ;  a  copy  of  which  here 
followeth  : 

'  To  the  conflables  of  Tredington,  in  the  faid  county  of 
'  Worceller,  and  to  all  conflables  and  tithing-men 
'  of  the  feveral  townfhips  and  villages  within  the  faid 
'  parifh  of  Tredington,  and  to  the  keeper  of  the  gaol 
'  for  the  county  of  Worceller. 

'  /COMPLAINT  being  made  to  me,  being  one  of  his 
'  V^  majefly's  jullices  of  the  peace  for  the  faid  county  of 

*  Worceller,  that  within  the  faid  parifh  of  Tredington,  in 
'  the  faid  county,  there  has  of  late  been  feveral  meetings 
'  of  divers  perfons,  to  the  number  of  four  hundred  perfons 
'  and  upwards  at  a  time,  upon  pretence  of  exercife  of  reh- 
'  gion,   otherwife  than  what  is  eflablifhed  by  the  laws   of 

*  England.  And  many  of  the  faid  perfons,  fome  of  them 
'  were  teachers,  and  came  from  the  north,  and  others  from 
'  the  remote  parts  of  the  kingdom,  which  tends  to  the  pre- 
'  judice  of  the  reformed  and  eflablifhed  religion,  and  may 
'  prove  prejudicial  to  the  publick  peace.     And  it  appearing 

*  to  me,  that  there  was  this  prefent  day  fuch  a  meeting  as 
'  aforefaid,  to  the  number  of  two  hundred  or  thereabouts, 

*  at  A.rmfcot,  in  the  faid  Parifti  of  Tredington ;  and  that 
'  George  Fox,  of  London,  and  Thomas  Lower,  of  the  pa- 
'  rifh  of  Creed,  in  the  county  of  Cornwall,  were  prefent  at 
'  the  faid  meeting ;  and  th«  faid  George  Fox  was  teacher 
'  or  fpeaker  of  the  faid  meeting;  and  no  fatisfa6lory  account 
'  of  their  fettlement  or  place  of  habitation  appearing  to  me; 
'  and  forafmuch  as  the  faid  George  Fox  and  Thomas 
'  Lower  ref^ufed  to  give  fureties  to  appear  at  the  next  fef- 
'  fions  of  the  peace  to  be  holden  for  the  faid  county,  to  an- 
'  fwer  the  breach  of  the  common  laws  of  England,  and 
'  what  other  matters  fhould  be  objeQed  againfl  them :  Thcfc 
'  are  therefore,  in  his  majelly's  name,  to  will  and  require 
'  you  or  either  of  you  forthwith  to  convey  the  bodies  of  the 

*  laid  George  Fox  and  Thomas  Lower  to  the  county  gaol 
'  of  Worceller  aforefaid,-  and  there  fafely  to  be  kept  until 
'  they  Ihall  be  from  thence  delivered  by  due  couric  of  lavv' : 


1673]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  177 

*  for  which  this  (hall  be  your  fufficient  warrant  in  that  be- 

*  half.     Dated  the  17th  day  of  December,  in  the  25th  year 

*  of  his  majefty's  reign  over  England,  &c. 

*  Henry  Parker/ 

Being  thus  made  prifoners,  without  any  probable  appear- 
ance of  being  releafed  before  the  quarter-feffions  at  fooneft, 
we  got  fome  friends  to  accompany  my  wife  and  her  daugh- 
ter into  the  north,  and  we  were  conveyed  to  Worcefter 
gaol.  From  whence,  by  that  time  I  thought  my  wife  could 
be  got  home,  I  wrote  her  the  following  letter. 

'  Dear  heart, 

*  nnHOU  feemedft  to  be  a  little   grieved  when  I  was 

*  X    fpeaking  of  prifons,  and  when  1  was  taken.    Be  con- 

*  tent  with  the  will  of  the  Lord  God.     For  when  I  was  at 

*  John  Rous's  at  Kingfton,  I  had  a  fight  of  my  being  taken 
*prifoner;  and  when   I   was  at  Bray  Doily's,  in  Oxford- 

*  Ihire,  as  I  fat  at  fupper,  I  faw  I  was  taken,   and  I   faw  I 

*  had  a  fuflPering  to  undergo.     But  the  Lord's  power  is  over 

*  all ;  bleffed  be  his  holy  name  for  ever ! 

♦  G.  F.' 

When  we  had  been  fome  time  in  the  gaol,  we  thought 
fit  to  lay  our  cafe  before  the  lord  Windfor,  lord-lieufenant 
of  Worcefterfhire,  and  before  the  deputy-lieutenants,  and 
other  magiftrates ;  which  we  did  by  the  following  letter : 

*  npHESE  are  to  inform  you,  thelord-lieutenant  (fo  cal- 
'  JL  led)  the  deputy-lieutenants,  and  the  juftices  of  the 
'  county  of  WorCefterfhire,  how  unchriftianly  and  inhumanly 
'  we  have  been  dealt  withal  by  Henry  Parker,  a  juftice  (fo  cal- 

*  led)  in  our  journey  towards  the  north.     We  coming  to 

*  our  friend  John  Halford's,  the  17th  of  the  10th  month, 
'  1673,  ^^^^  friends  bringing  us  on  the  way,  and  others 
'  coming  to  vifit  us  there ;  towards  night  came  the  aforefaid 

*  juftice,  and  a  prieft  called  Rowland  Hains,  of  Hunniton, 

*  in  Warwickfhire,  and  demanded  our  names  and  places  of 

*  abode.     And   though  we  were  not  in  any  meeting,  but 

*  were  difcourfmg  together  when  they  came  in,  he  made  a 

*  mittimus  to  fend  us  to  Worcefter  gaol.     Now  whereas  he 

*  fays  in  his  mittimus,  "  That  complaint  had  been  made  to 
*'  him  of  feveral  by-paft  meetings  of  many  hundreds  at  a 

Vol.   n.  X 


liS  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1675 

*'  time ;"  we  know  nothing  of  that,  nor  do  we  think  that 
'  concerns  us.  And  whereas  he  fays  further,  "  That  no 
*'  fatisfaftory  account  of  our  fettlement  or  place  of  habita- 
"  tion  appeared  unto  him ;"  this  he  contradi6ls  in  his  own 
'  mittimus,  mentmning  therein  the  places  of  our  abode  and 
'  habitation  ;  the  account  of  which  we  fatisfaftorily  and  ful- 

*  ly  gave  him.      And  one  of  us  (Thomas  Lower)  told  him, 

*  that  he  was  going  down  with  his   mother-in-law  (who  is 

*  George  Fox's  wife)  and  with  his  fifler,  to  fetch  up  his  own 
'  wife  and  child  out  of  the  north  into  his  own  country. 
'  And  the  other  of  us  (George  Fox)  told  him,  that  he  was 
'  bringing  forward  his  wife  on  her  journey  towards  the  north 

*  who  had  been  at   London  to  vifit  one  of  her  daughters, 

*  who  had  lately  lain  in.      And  having  received  a  meffage 

*  from  his  mother,  an  ancient  woman  in  Leicefterfhire,  that 

*  fhe  earneftly  defired  to  fee  him  before  fhe  died,  he  intend- 

*  ed,  as  foon  as  he  had  brought  his  wife  on  her  journey  as 

*  far  as  Caufal,  in  Warwickfhire,  to  turn  into  Leicefterfhire, 

*  to  vifit  his  mother  and  relations  there,   and  then  to  have 

*  returned  to   London.     But  hy  his  interrupting  us  in  our 

*  journey,  taking  the  hufband  from  his  wife,  the  fon  from 
'  his  mother  and  fifter,  and  flopping  him  from  vifiting  his 
'  wife  and  child  fo  remote,  we  were  forced  to  get  ftrangers, 
'  or  whom  we  could,  to  help  them  on  their  journey,  to  our 

*  great  damage  and  their  hindrance.  We  afked  the  prieft, 
*'  whether  this  was  his  gofpel,  and  their  way  of  entertaining 
"  ftrangers  ?"     And  we  defired  the  juftice  to  confider,  whe- 

*  thcr  this  was  doing  "  as  he  would  be  done  by  ?"     But  be 

*  faid,  "  He  had  faid  it,  and  he  would  do  it."    And  where- 

*  as  he  fays,  "  We  refufed  to  give  fureties."    He  afked  only 

*  George  Fox  for  fureties;  who  replied,  "  He  was  an  in- 
*'  nocent  man.  and  knew  no  law  he  had  broken ;"  but  he 

*  did  not  afk  Thomas  Lower  for  any,  as  if  it  had  been  crime 

*  and  caufe  enough  for  his  commitment  tliat  he  came  out  of 

*  Cornwall.     If  we  were  at  a  meeting,  as  he  fays  in  his  mit- 

*  timus,  he  might  have  proceeded  otherwife,  than  by  fend- 

*  ing  us  to  gaol,  to  anfwer  the  breach  of  the  common  laws; 

*  though  he  fhewed  us  no  breach  of  any,  as  may  be  feen  in 

*  the  mittimus.     We  thought  fit  to  lay  before  you  the  fub- 

*  ftance  of  his  proceedings  againft  us,   hoping  there  will 

*  more  moderation  and  juflice  appear  in  you  towards  us, 
'  that  we  may  prolecutc  our  intended  journey. 

'  George  Fox. 
'  Thomas  Lov/er,' 


1673]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  179 

But  no  enlargement  did  we  receive  by  our  application 
to  the  lord  Windfor  (ib  called.)  And  although  Thomas 
Lower  received  feveral  letters  from  his  brother  Dr.  Lower, 
who  was  one  of  the  king's  phyficians,  concerninc;  his  hber- 
ty,  and  one,  by  his  procurement,  from  Henry  Savil,  who 
was  of  the  king's  bed-chamber,  to  his  brother  called  the 
lord  Windfor  to  the  fame  effeft ;  yet  feeing  it  related  only 
to  his  enlargement,  not  mine,  fo  great  was  his  love  and  re- 
gard to  me,  that  he  would  not  feek  his  own  liberty  fingly, 
but  kept  the  letter  by  him  unfent ;  fo  we  v-'ere  continued 
prifoners  till  the  next  general  quarter  feffions  of  the  peace. 
At  which  time  divers  friends  from  feveral  places  being  in 
town,  did  fpeak  to  thejuflices  concerning  us ;  who  ipokefair, 
and  faid  we  fhould  be  difcharged.  For  many  of  the  juf- 
tices  feemed  to  diflike  the  feverity  of  Parker's  proceedings 
againft  us,  and  declared  an  averfenefs  to  enfnare  us  by  the 
tender  of  the  oaths.  Some  friends  alfo  had  fpoken  with 
lord  Windfor,  who  iikewife  fpoke  them  fair ;  fo  that  it  was 
the  general  difcourfe  we  fhould  be  difcharged.  We  heard 
alfo,  that  Dr.  Lower  had  procured  a  letter  from  colonel 
Sands  at  London,  to  fome  of  the  juftices  in  our  favour. 
Some  of  the  juftices  alfo  fpoke  to  fome  friends,  to  acquaint 
us,  that  they  would  have  us  fpeak  but  little  in  the  court, 
left  we  ftiould  provoke  any  of  the  bench,  and  they  would 
warrant  we  fhould  be  difcharged. 

We  were  not  called  till  the  laft  day  of  the  feffions, 
which  was  the  twenty-firft  of  the  eleventh  month,  1673. 
When  we  came  in,  they  were  ftruck  with  palenefs  in  thc-ir 
faces,  and  it  was  fomo  time  before  any  thing  was  fpoken ; 
infomuch  that  a  butcher  in  the  hall  faid,   '  What !   are  they 

*  afraid  ?  Dare  not  the  juftices  fpeak  to  them  ?'  At  length, 
before  they  fpoke  to  us,  juftice  Parker  made  a  long  fpeech 
on  the  bench,  much  to  the  fame  efFeft  as  was  contained  in 
the  mittimus,  often  mentioning  the  common  laws,  but  not 
inftancing  any  we  had  broken.  Adding,  '  That  he  thought 
'  it  a  milder  courfe  to  fend  us  two  to  gaol,  than  to  put  his 

*  neighbours  to  the  lofs  of  two  hundred  pounds,  which  they 

*  muft  have  fufFered  if  he  had  put  the  law  in  execution 
'  againft  conventicles.'  But  in  this  he  was  either  very  ig- 
norant, or  very  deceitful ;  for  there  being  no  meeting  when 
he  came,  nor  any  to  inform,  he  had  no  evidence  to  convift 
us,  or  his  neighbours  by. 

When  Parker  had  ended  his  fpeech,  the  juftices  bcrran 
with  Thomas  Lower,  whom  they  e::arnined  of  the  caule  of 
z  2 


i8o  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1673 

his  coming  into  that  country ;  of  which  he  gave  them  a  full 
and  plain  account.  Sometimes  I  put  in  a  word  while  they 
were  examining  him,  and  then  they  told  me,  '  They  were 

*  upon  his  examination,  when  it  came  to  my  turn,  I  fhould 

*  have  free  liberty  to  fpeak,  for  they  would  not  hinder  me ; 

*  but  I  fhould  have  full  time,  and  they  would  not  enfnare 

*  us.'  When  they  had  done  with  him,  they  afked  me  an 
account  of  my  travel,  which  I  gave  them,  as  is  mentioned 
before,  but  more  largely.  And  whereas  juftice  Parker,  to 
aggravate  the  cafe,  had  made  a  great  noife  of  '  there  being 
'  fome  from  London,  fome  from  the  north,  fome  from  Corn- 

*  wall,   and  fome  from  Briftol,   at  the  houfe  when  I  was 

*  taken.'     I  told  him,  '  This  was  in  a  manner  all  but  one 

*  family.     For  there  was  none  from  London,  but  myfelf; 

*  none  from  the  north,  but  my  wife  and  her  daughter;  none 

*  from  Cornwall,  but  my  fon-in-law  Thomas  Lower;  nor 

*  any  from  Briftol,  but  one  friend,  a  merchant  there,  who 

*  met  us,  as  it  were,  providentially,  to  affift  my  wife  and 
'  her  daughter  in  their  journey  homewards,  when  by  our 

*  imprifonment  they  were  deprived  of  our  company  and 

*  help.'  When  I  had  fpoken,  the  chairman,  whofe  name 
was  Simpfon,  an  old  Prefbyterian,  faid,  '  Your  relation  or 
'  account  is  very  innocent.'  Then  he  and  Parker  whifpered 
awhile  together,  and  after  that  the  chairman  ftood  up,  and 
faid :  '  You,  Mr.  Fox,  are  a  famous  man,  and  all  this  may 

*  be  true  which  you  have  faid ;  but  that  we  may  be  the  bet- 

*  ter  fatisficd,  will  you  take  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fu- 

*  premacy  ?'  I  told  them,  '  They  had  faid,  "  They  would 
••  not   enfnare  us ;"  but  this  was  a  plain  fnare :   for  they 

*  knew  we  could  not  take  any  oath.'  However,  they  cauf- 
ed  the  oath  to  be  read ;  and  when  they  had  done,  I  told 
them,  '  I  never  took  an  oath  in  my  life,  but  I  had  always 

*  been  true  to  the  government :  that  I  was  caft  into  prifon 
'  at  Derby,  and  kept  a  prifoner  fix  months  there,  becaufe  I 

*  would  not  take  up  arms  again  ft  king  Charles  at  Wor- 
*-cefler-fight;  and  for  going  to  meetings,  was  carried  up  out 

*  of  Leicefterftiire,  and  brought  before  Oliver  Cromwel,  as  a 

*  plotter  to  bring  in  ^ing  Charles.      And  ye  know,'  faid  I, 

*  in  3'^our  own  confciences,  that  we,  the  people  called  Qua- 

*  kers,  cannot  take  an  oath,  nor  fwear  in  any  cafe,  becaufe 

*  Chrift  hath    forbidden  it.     But  as  to  the  matter  or  fub- 

*  ftance  contained  in  the  oaths,  this  I  can  and  do  fay,  that 

*  I  do  own  and  acknowledge  the  king  of  England  to  be  lawful 
^  heir  and  fucccITor  to  the  realm  of  England,  and  do  abhof 


1673]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  181 

*  all  plots  and  plotters,  and  contrivances  againfl  him  ;  and  I 

*  have  nothing  in  my  heart,  but  love  and  good-will  to  him 
'  and  all  men,  and  defire  his  and  their  profperity ;  the  Lord 

*  knows  it,  before  whom  I  fland  an  innocent  man.     And 

*  as  to  the  oath  of  fupremacy,  I  deny  the  pope,  his  power, 

*  and  his  religion,  and  abhor  it  with  my  heart.'  While  I 
was  fpeaking,    they  cried,   '  Give  him  the  book.'     I  faid, 

*  The  book  faith,   "  Swear  not  at  all."     Then  they  cried, 

*  Take  him  away,  gaoler;'  and  I  ftill  fpeaking  on,  they 
were  urgent  upon  the  gaoler,  crying,  '  Take  him  away,  we 
'  fhall  have  a  meeting  here.     Why  do  you  not  take  him 

*  away  ?    That  fellow  (meaning  the  gaoler)  loves  to  hear 

*  him  preach.'  Then  the  gaoler  drew  me  away ;  and  as  I 
was  turning  from  them,  I  flretched  out  my  arm,  and  faid, 
'  The  Lord  forgive  you,  who  cafl  me  into  prifon  for  obey- 

*  ing  the  do6lrine  of  Chrift.'  Thus  they  apparently  broke 
their  promife  in  the  face  of  the  country ;  for  they  promiled 
I  fhould  have  free  liberty  to  fpeak,  but  now  they  would 
not  give  it  me ;  and  they  promifed  they  would  not  enfnare 
us,  yet  now  they  tendered  me  the  oaths  on  purpofe  to  en- 
fnare me. 

After  I  was  had  away,  Thomas  Lower  was  flayed  behind 
in  the  court ;  and  they  told  him,  '  He  was  at  liberty.' 
Then  he  would  have   reafoned   with   them,    afking   them, 

*  Why  I  might  not  be  fetat  liberty  as  well  as  he,  feeing  we 
'  were  both  taken  together,  and  our  cafe  was  alike  ?'  But  they 
told  him,  '  They  would  not  hear  him ;'  faying,  '  You  may 
'  be  gone  about  your  bufmefs,  for  we  have  nothing  more  to 

*  fay  to  you,  feeing  you  are  difcharged.'  This  was  all  he  could 
get  from  them.  Wherefore,  after  the  court  was  rifen,  he 
went  to  fpeak  with  them  at  their  chamber,  defiring  to  know, 

*  What  caufe  they  had  to  detain  his  father,  feeing  they  had 

*  difcharged  him  ?'  and  wifhing  them  to  confider,  whether 
this  was  not  partiality,  and  would  be  a  blemifh  to  them. 
Whereupon    Simpfon  threatened  him,  faying,   '  If  you  be 

*  not  content  we  will  tender  you  the  oaths  alfo.  and  fend 
'  you  to  your  father.'     To  which  he  replied,   '  They  might 

*  do  that,  if  they  thought  fit;   but  whether  they  font  him  or 

*  no,  he  intended  to  go  and  wait  upon  his  father  in  prKon ; 
'  for  that  was  now  his  bufinefs  in  that  country.'  Then  faid 
juftice  Parker  to  him.  '  Do  you  think,  Mr.  Lower,  that  I 
'  had  not  caufe  to  fend  your  father  and  you  to  prifon,  when 

*  you  had  fuch  a  great  meeting  that  the  parfon  of  the  parifh 
»  complained  to  me,  that  he  hath  loft  the  greateft  part  of  his 


i82  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1673 

'  pariftiioners ;  fo  that  when  he  comes  amongft  them  he  has 

*  fcarce  any  auditors  left  ?'  '  I  have  heard/  repUed  Thomas 
Lower,  '  that  the  prieft  of  that  parifh  comes  fo  feldoni  to 

*  vifit  his  fiock  (but  once,  it  may  be,  or  twice  in  a  year,  to 

*  gather  up  his  tithes)  that  it  was  but  charity  in  my  father  to 

*  vifit  fuch  a  forlorn  and  forfaken  flock;  therefore  thou  hadfl 
'  no  caufe  to  fend  my  father  to  p/ifon  for  viliting  them,  or 

*  for  teaching,  indrucling,  and  dire6ling  them  to  Chrift,  their 

*  true  teacher,  who  had  fo  little  comfort  or  benefit  from  their 

*  pretended  paftor,  who  comes  amongft  them  only  to  feekfor 
'  his  "  gain  from  his  quarter."  Upon  this  the  juitices  fell  a 
laughing ;  for  it  feems  Dr.  Crowder,  the  prieft  ihcy  {poke 
of,  was  then  fitting  among  them,  though  Thomas  Lower 
did  not  know  him ;  and  he  had  the  wit  to  hold  his  tongue, 
and  not  undertake  to  vindicate  himfelf  in  a  matter  fo  noto- 
nouily  known  to  be  true.  But  when  Thomas  Lower  was 
come  from  them,  the  juftices  did  io  play  upon  Dr.  Crow- 
der, that  he  was  pitifully  afhamed,  and  fo  nettled  with  it, 
that  he  threatened  to  fue  Thomas  Lower  in  the  biftiop's 
court,  upon  an  aftion  of  defamation.  Which  when  Tho- 
mas Lower  heard  of,  he  fent  him  word,  he  would  anfwer  his 
luit,  let  him  begin  it  when  he  would ;  and  would  bring  his 
ivhole  parifti  in  evidence  againft  him.  This  cooled  the 
doflor.  Yet  fome  time  after  he  came  to  the  prifon,  pre- 
tending he  had  a  mind  to  difpute  with  me,  and  to  talk  with 
Thomas  Lower  about  that  bufinefs ;  and  he  brought  ano- 
ther with  him,  he  himfelf  being  then  a  prebendary  at  Wor- 
cefter. 

When  he  came  in,  he  afked  me,  '  What  I  was  in  prifon 
•for?'  '  Doft  not  thou  know  that?'  faid  L  •  Waft  not 
'  thou  upon  the  bench,  when  juftice  Simpfon  and  Parker 

*  tendered  the  oath  to  me  ?   And  hadft  not  thou  an  hand  in 

*  it?*     Then  he  faid,  '  It  is  lawful  to  fwear;  and  Chrift 

*  did   not  forbid  fwearing  before  a  magiftrate;  but  Iwearing 

*  by  the  fun  and  the  like.'  I  bid  him  prove  that  by  the 
fcriptures,  but  he  could  not.  Then  he  brought  that  faying 
of  Paul's,  '  All  things  are  lawful  unto  me,'  1  Cor.  vi.  12. 
'  And  if,'  faid  he,  '  all  things  were  lawful  unto  him,  then 
'  fwearing  was  lawful  unto  him.'  '  By  this  argument,'  faid 
L  •'  thou  mayft  alfo  affirm,  that  drunkennefs,  adultery,  and 
'  all  manner  of  fin  and  wickednefs  is  lawful  alfo,  as  well  as 
'  {"wearing.'  '  Why,'  {"aid  Dr.  Crowder,  '  do  you  hold  that 
^  adultery  is  unlawful  ?'  '  Yes,'  faid  I,  '  that  I  do.'  '  Why 
«  then,'  laid  be,  '  this_  contradids  the  laying  of  St.  Paul/ 


1673]  GEORGE    FOX'S     JOURNAL.  183 

Thereupon  I  called  to  the  prifoners  and  the  gaoler,  to  hear 
what  doctrine  Dr.  Crowder  had  laid  down  for  orthodox,  viz. 
'  that  drunkennefs,  [wearing,  adultery,  and  fuch  like  things 
'  were  lawful/  Then  he  faid,  '  He  would  give  it  under  his 
'  hand ;'  and  took  a  pen,  but  wrote  another  thing  than  what 
he  had  fpoken.  Then  turning  to  Thomas  Lower,  he  afked 
him,  '  Whether  he  would  anfwer  what  he  had  there  writ- 
'  ten  ?'  Who  undertook  it.  Whereupon,  when  he  had 
threatened  Thomas  Lower  to  fue  him  in  the  bilhop's  court 
for  fpeaking  fo  abufively  (as  he  called  it)  of  him  before  the 
juftices,  and  Thomas  had  bid  him  begin  when  he  pleafed, 
for  he  would  anfwer  him,  and  bring  his  parifhioners  in  evi- 
dence againft  him,  he  went  away  in  a  great  fret,  grumbling 
to  himfelf  as  he  went.  A  few  days  after  Thomas  Lower 
fent  him  an  anfwer  to  the  paper  he  had  wrote  and  left  with 
him ;  which  anfwer  a  friend  of  Worcefter  carried  to  him, 
and  he  read  it,  and  faid,  '  Lie  would  reply  to  it ;'  but  he 
never  did,  though  he  often  fent  him  word  he  would  do  it. 
Soon  after  the  fellions,  the  terra  coming  on,  an  Habeas 
Corpus  was  fent  to  Worcefter  for  the  fheriff  to  bring  me 
up  to  the  king's-bench-bar.  Whereupon  the  under-fherifF, 
having  made  Thomas  Lower  his  deputy  to  convey  me  to 
London,  we  fet  out  the  twenty-ninth  of  the  eleventh  month, 
1673,  ^^^  came  to  London  the  fecond  of  the  twelfth  month; 
the  ways  being  very  deep,  and  the  waters  out.  Next  day, 
notice  being  given  that  1  was  brought  up,  the  fheriff  was  or- 
dered to  bring  me  into  court.  I  went  accordingly,  and  did 
appear  in  court  before  judge  Wild;  and  both  he  and  the 
lawyers  were  pretty  fair,  fo  that  I  had  time  to  fpcak,  to  clear 
my  innocency,  and  fliew  my  wrong  imprilbnment.  After 
the  return  of  the  writ  was  entered,  I  was  ordered  to  be 
brought  into  court  again  next  day  ;  the  order  of  court  be- 
ing as  followeth : 

*  Worcefter.    ^  Thurfday,   next  after  the   morrow   of  the 
'  The  king      I        Parification  of  the  Bleffed  Virgin  Mary, 

'  againd        (       in   the   26th   Year  of  King  Charles  the 
'George  Fox.  J       Second. 

*  npHE  defendant  being  brought  here  into  court,  upon  a 
'  A  writ  of  Habeas  Corpus  ad  fubjiciend,  &c.  under  the 
'  cuftody  of  the  iherilF  of  the  county  aforefaid  ;  it  is  order- 

*  ed,  That  the  Return  unto  the  Habeas   Corpus  be  filed. 


i84  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1673 

*  and  tRe  Defendant  is  committed  unto  the  marfhal  of  this 

*  court,  to  be  fafely  kept  until,  &c. 

'  By  motion  of  Mr.  G.  Stroude. 
'  By  the  Court/ 

Accordingly  I  went  in  the  morning,  and  walked  in  the 
hall  till  the  fherifF  came  to  me  (for  he  trufted  me  to  go  whi- 
ther I  would)  and  it  being  early,  we  went  into  the  court  of 
King's  Bench,  and  fat  among  the  lawyers  almoft  an  hour, 
till  the  judges  came  in,  when  the  fheriff  took  ofF  my  hat; 
and  after  awhile  I  was  called.  The  Lord's  prefence  was 
with  me,  and  his  power  I  felt  was  over  all.  I  flood  and 
heard  the  king's  attorney,  whofe  name  was  Jones,  who  in- 
deed fpoke  notably  on  my  behalf,  as  did  alfo  another  coun- 
fellor  after  him;  and  the  judges,  who  were  three,  were  all 
very  moderate,  not  calling  any  reflefting  words  at  me.  I 
flood  flill  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  the  Lord,  feeing  how 
the  Lord  was  at  work,  and  the  earth  was  helping  the  wo- 
man. But  when  they  had  done,  I  applied  myfelf  to  the 
chief  juftice,  defiring,  '  That  I  might  fpeak ;'  and  he  faid, 
I  might.     '  Then  I  related   the  caufe  of  our  journey,   the 

*  manner  of  our  being  taken  and  committed,  and  the  time 
'  of  our  imprifonment  until  the  feffions ;  with  a  brief  ac- 
'  count  of  our  trial  at  the  feffions,  and  what  I  had  offered  to 

*  the  juflices  then,  as  a  declaration  that  I  could  make  or 
'  fign,  inflead  of  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy.' 
When  I  had  done,  the  chief  juftice  faid,  '  I  was  to  be  turn- 

*  ed  over  to  the  King's-bench,  and  the  fherifF  of  Worcefter 
'  to  be  difcharged  of  me.'  He  faid  alfo,  '  That  they  would 
'  confider  further  of  it ;  and  if  they  found  any  error  in  the 
'record,  or  in  the  juftices  proceedings,  I  fhould  be  fet  at 
'  liberty.'  So  a  tipflafF  was  called  to  take  me  into  cuftody, 
and  he  delivered  me  to  the  keeper  of  the  King's-bench,  who 
let  mc  go  to  a  friend's  houfe,  where  I  lodged  and  appointed 
to  meet  me  at  Edward  iMan's  in  Bifhopfgate-ftreet  the  next 
day.  But  after  this,  juftice  Parker,  or  forne  other  of  my  ad- 
verfiiries,  moved  the  court,  that  I  might  be  fent  back  to 
Worcefter.  Whereupon  another  day  was  appointed  for 
another  hearing,  and  they  had  four  counfel  that  pleaded 
againft  me.  George  Stroude,  a  counfellor,  pleaded  for  me, 
and  was  pleading  before  I  was  brought  into  the  court ;  but 
they  bore  him  down,  and  prevailed  with  the  judges  to  give 
judgment,   '  That  I  fhould  be  fent  down  to  Worcefter  fef- 

*  lions.'     Only  they  told  me  I  might  put  in  bail  to  appear 


1674]  GEORGE     F  O  X's    JOURNAL.  18^ 

at  the  feflions,  and  to  be  of  good  behaviour  in  the  mean 
time.     I  told  them,   '  I  never  was  of  ill  behaviour  in  my 

*  life ;  and  that  they,  the  four  judges,  might  as  well  put  the 

*  oath  to  me  there,  as  fend  me  to  Worcefter  to  be  enfnarcd 

*  by  the  juftices,  in  their  putting  the  oath  to  me,  and  then 

*  premuniring  me,    who  never  took   oath   in  my  life.      I 

*  told  them,  if  I  broke  my  Yea  or  Nay,  I  was  content  to 

*  fufFer  the  fame  penalty  which  they  fhould  that  break  their 

*  oaths.'  This  alteration  of  the  judges  minds  in  my  cafe 
proceeded,  as  was  thought,  from  fome  falfe  informations 
that  my  adverfary  juftice  Parker  had  given  againft  me  :  for 
between  the  times  of  my  former  appearance  and  this,  he 
had  fpread  abroad  a  very  falfe  and  malicious  ftory,  viz. 

*  That  there  were  many  fubftantial  men   with  me  out  of 

*  feveral  parts  of  the  nation  when  he  took  me,  and  that  we 

*  had  a  defign  or  plot  in  hand ;   and  that  Thomas  Lower 

*  flaid  with  me  in  prifon  long  after  he  was  fet  at  liberty,  to 

*  carry  on  our  defign.'  This  was  fpoken  in  the  parliament- 
houfe ;  infomuch  that  if  I  had  not  been  brouf^ht  up  to 
London  when  I  was,  I  had  been  flopped  at  Worcefler, 
and  Thomas  had  been  re-committed  with  me.  But  although 
thefe  lies  were  eafily  difproved  and  laid  open  to  Parker's 
fhame,  yet  would  not  the  judges  alter  their  lall  fentence, 
but  remanded  me  to  Worcefter  gaol ;  only  this  favour  was 
granted,  that  I  might  go  down  my  own  way,  and  at  my 
own  leifure ;  provided  I  would  be  without  fail  there  by  the 
aflize,  which  was  to  begin  the  fecond  of  the  fecond  month 
following. 

I  Raid  in  and  about  London  till  towards  the  latter  end  of 
the  firft  month  1674,  and  then  went  dovv'n  leifurely  (for  I 
was  not  able  to  abide  hafty  and  hard  travelling)  and  came 
into  Worcefter  the  laft  of  the  firft  month  1674,  being  the 
day  before  the  judges  came  to  town.  The  fecond  day  of 
the  fecond  month  1  was  brought  from  the  gaol  to  an  inn 
near  the  hall  that  I  might  be  in  readinefs  if  I  Ihould  be 
called.  But  not  being  called  that  day,  the  gaoler  came  ac 
night,  and  told  me,  '  I  might  go  home,'  meaning  to  tae 
gaol.  Gerrard  Roberts  of  London  being  with  me,  he  and 
I  walked  down  together  to  the  gaol  without  any  keeper. 
Next  day  being  brought  up  again,  they  fet  a  little  boy 
about  eleven  years  old  to  be  my  keeper.  I  came  to  undcr- 
ftand  juftice  Parker  and  the  clerk  of  the  peace  had  given 
order  that  L  fhould  not  be  put  into  the  calendar,  that  I 
might  not  be  brought  before  the  judge;  wherefore  I  got 

Vol.  II,  A  A 


,56  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1674 

the  judge's  fon  to  move  in  court,  '  That  I  might  be 
'  called :'  whereupon  I  was  called  and  brought  to  the 
bar  before  judge  Turner,  my  old  adverfary,  who  had  ten- 
dered me  the  oaths,  and  premunired  me  once  before  at 
Lancafler.  After  filence  made,  he  aflced  me,  '  What  I  did 
'  defire  ?'  I  anfwered,  '  My  liberty  according  to  juftice.* 
He  faid,  '  I  lay  upon  the  oath ;'  and  afked,  '  If  I  would 
'  take  it  ?'  'I  defired  he  would  hear  the  manner  of  my 
'  being  taken  and  committed  /  and  being  filent,  I  gave  him 
an  account  thereof  at  large,  as  is  before  fet  down,  letting 
him  alfo  know,  '  That  fmce  my  imprifonment  I  had  under- 

*  flood  my  mother,  who  was  an  ancient,  tender  woman,  and 

*  had  defired  to  fee  me  before  fhe  died,  hearing  that  I  was 
'  flopped  and  imprifoned  in  my  journey,  fo  that  I  was  not 

*  likely  to  come  to  fee  her,  it  ftruck  her  fo,  that  fhe  died 

*  foon  after,  which  was  a  very  hard  thing  to  me,'  When  I 
had  done  fpeaking,  he  again  afked  me,  '  To  take  the  oaths/ 
I  told  him,  '  I  could  not  take  any  oath,  for  confcience-fake; 

*  and  I  did  believe  he  and  they  all  knew  in  their  confciences 
'  that  it  w^as  for  confcience-fake  I  could  not  fwear  at  all.  I 
'  declared  amongft  them  what  I  could  fay  and  what  I  could 

*  fign,  in  owning  of  the  king's  right  to  the  government,  and 

*  in  denying  the  pope  and  his  pretended  power,  and  all  plot- 
'  ters,  plots,  and  confpiracies  againll  the  government/  Som6 
thought  the  judge  had  a  mind  to  fet  me  at  liberty,  for  he  faw 
they  had  nothing  juflly  againfl  me;  but  Parker,  who  com- 
mitted me,  endeavoured  to  incenfe  him,  telling  him,  '  That  I 
'  was  a  ringleader;  that  many  of  the  nation  followed  me,  and 

*  he  knew  not  what  it  might  come  to;'  with  many  more  envi- 
ous words,  which  fome  took  notice  of;  who  alfo  obferved,  that 
the  judge  gave  him  never  a  word  in  anfwer.  However,  the 
judge,  willing  to  eafe  himfelf,  referred  me  and  my  cafe  to 
the  fcflions  again,  bidding  the  juflices  make  an  end  of  it 
tliere,  and  not  trouble  tlie  alTizes  any  more  with  me.  So  I 
was  continued  prifoner,  chiefly  (as  it  feemed)  through  the 
means  of  juflice  Parker,  who  in  this  cafe  was  as  falfe  as  en- 
vious ;  for  he  had  promifed  Richard  Cannon  of  London, 
who  had  acquaintance  with  him,  '  That  he  would  endea- 
'  vour  to  have  me  fet  at  liberty  ;'  yet  he  was  the  worft  ene- 
my I  had  in  court,  as  fome  of  the  court  obferved  and  re- 
ported. Other  juflices  were  very  loving,  and  promifed, 
'  That  I  fliould  have  the  liberty  of  the  town,  and  to  lodge 

*  at  a  friend's  houfe  till  the  feffions ;'  which  accordingly  I 
had,  and  the  people  were  very  civil  and  refpedful  to  me. 


1674]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  1S7 

Between  this  time  and  the  feffions  I  had  Bmc  fervicc 
for  the  Lord  with  feveral  that  came  to  viht  me.  At  one 
time  came  three  nonconformift  priefls  and  two  lawyers  to 
difcourfe  with  me;  and  one  of  the  priefls  undertook  to 
prove,  '  That  the  fcriptures  are  the  only  rule  of  life.'  Af- 
ter I  had  defeated  his  proof,  I  had  a  fit  opportunity  to 
open  to  them,   '  The  right  and  proper  ufe,  fervice,  and  ex- 

*  cellency  of  the  fcriptures ;  and  alfo  to  fhew,  that  the  Spirit 

*  of  God  which  was  given  to  every  one  to  profit  withal,  the 

*  grace  of  God  which  bringeth  falvation,  and  which  hath 
'  appeared  to  all  men.  and  teacheth  them  that  obey  it  to 
'  deny  ungodlinefs  and  worldly  lufts,   and   to  live   fober- 

*  ly,  righteoufly,  and  godly  in  this  prtfent  world  ;  that  this, 

*  I   fay,   is  the  moft  fit,  proper,  and  univerfai  rule  which 

*  God  hath  given  to  all  mankind  to  rule,  direft,  govern, 

*  and  order  their  lives  by.' 

Another  time  came  a  common-prayer  priefl,  and  fome 
people  with  him.  He  afked  me,  '  If  I  was  grown  up  to 
'  perfeftion  ?'  I  told  him,  '  Vv^hat  I  was,  I  was  by  the  grace 
'  of  God.'  He  replied,  '  It  was  a  modeft  and  civil  anfwer.' 
Then  he  urged  the  words  of  John,  '  If  we  fay  that  we  have 

*  no  fin,  we  deceive  ourfelves,  and  the  truth  is  not  in  us.' 
He  afked,  '  What  did  I  fay  to  that  ?'     '  I  faid   with  the 

*  fame  apoflle,  "  If  we  fay  that  we  have  not  finned,  we 
*'  make  him  a  liar,  and  his  word  is  not  in  us ;"  who  came 
'  to  deflroy  fin,  and  to  take  away  fin.    So  there  is  a  time  for 

*  people  to  fee  that  they  have  finned,  and  there  is  a  time  for 
'  them  to  fee  that  they  have  fin  ;  and  there  is  a  time  for  them 
'  to  confefs  their  fin,  and  to  forfake  it,  and  to  know  the  blood 
'  of  Chrifl  to  cleanfe  from  all  fin.'  Then  the  priefl:  was 
afked,  '  Whether  Adam  was  not  perfe6l  before  he  fell  ?  and 
'  whether  all  God's  works  were  not  perfe6l  ?'  The  priefl 
faid,  '  There  might  be  a  perfe6lion  as  Adam  had,  and  a 
'  falling  from  it.'  But  I  told  him,  '  There  is  a  perfe6lion 
'  in  Chrifl  above  Adam,  and  beyond  falling ;  and  that  it 
«  was  the  work  of  the  miniflers  of  Chrift  to  prefent  every 
'  man  perfeft  in  Chrifl ;  for  the  perfeding  of  whom  they 
'  had  their  gifts  from  Chrifl;  therefore  they  that  denied  per- 
'  feftion,  denied  the  work  of  the  miniflry,  and  the  gifts 
'  which  Chrift  gave  for  the  pcrfeftfng  of  the  faints.'  The 
priefl  laid,  '  We  mufl  always  be  firiving.'  I  anfwered, 
'  It  was  a  fad  and  comfortlefs  fort  of  firiving.  to  firive  with 
'  a  belief  that  we  fliould  never  overcome.'  I  told  him  alio, 
that  '  Paul,  who  cried  out  of  the  body  of  death,  did  alfa 

A    A    2 


188  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1674 

"  thank  God,  who  gave  him  the  victory  through  our  Lord 
"  Jefus  Chrift."    So  there  was  a  time  of  crying  out  for  want 

*  of  vidory,  and  a  time  of  praifing  God  for  the  victory. 

*  And  Paul  faid,  "  There  is  no  condemnation  to  them  that 
*'  are  in  Chrift  Jefus."    The  prieft  faid,  '  Job  was  not  per-r 

*  k£t.'     I  told  him,  '  God  faid  Job  was  a  perfefl;  man,  and 

*  that  he  did  fhun  evil ;  and  the  devil  was  forced  to  confefs, 

*  that  *'  God  had  fet  an  hedge  about  him ;"  which  was  not 

*  an  outward  hedge,  but  the  invifible,  heavenly  power/ 
The  prieft  faid,  '  Job  faid,  "  He  chargcth  his  angels  with 
*'  folly,  and  the  heavens  are  not  clean  in  his  fight."  I  told 
him,   '  That  was  his  miftake,   it  was  not  Job  faid  fo,   but 

*  Eliphaz,  who  contended  againft  Job.'  '  Well,  but,'  faid 
the  prieft,  '  what  fay  you  to  that  fcripture,  "  The  jufteft 
*'  man  that  is  fmneth  feven  times  a  day  ?"  '  Why  truly/ 
faid  I,  '  I  fay  there  is  no  fuch  fcripture;'  and  with  that  the 
prieft's  mouth  was  ftopped.  Many  other  fervices  1  had 
with  feveral  forts  of  people  between  the  aftizes  and  the 
feffions. 

The  next  quarter-feffions  began  the  twenty-ninth  of  the 
fecond  month,  and  I  was  called  before  the  juftices.     The 

chairman's  name  was Street,  he  was  a  judge  in  the 

Welfti  circuit,  and  he  mifreprefented  me  and  my  cafe  to  the 
country,  telling  them  '  That  we  had  a  meeting  at  Treding- 

*  ton  from  all  parts  of  the  nation,  to  the  terrifying  of  the 

*  king's  fubje6ls,  for  which  we  had  been  committed  to  pri- 

*  fon :   that  for  the  trial  of  my  fidelity  the  oaths  were  put  to 

*  me  ;  and,  having  had  time  to  confider  of  it,  he  afked  me  if 

*  I  would  now  take  the  oaths  ?'  '  I  defired  liberty  to  fpeak 
'  for  myfelf ;  and,  having  obtained  that,  began  firft  to  clear 
'  myfelf  from  thofe  fiilfehoods  he  had   charged  on  me  and 

*  friends ;  declaring,  that  we  had  not  any  fuch  meeting  from 
*^  all  parts  of  the  nation,  as  he  had  r^prefented  it ;  but  that 

*  (except  the  friend  from  whofe  houfe  we  came,    and  who 

*  came  with  us  to  guide  us  thither,  and  one  friend  of  Brif- 
'  toi,  who  came  accidentally,   or   rather  providentially,  to 

*  allift  my  wife  homewards,  after  we  were  taken)  they  that 
'  were  with  me  were  in  a  fenfe  part  of  my  own  family,  be- 

*  ing  my  wife,  her  daughter,  and  her  fon-in-law.  And  we 
'  did  not  meet  in  any  way  or  manner  that  would  occafion 
'  terror  to  any  of  the  king's  fubjccls  ;  for  we  met  peaceably 
'  and  quietly,  without  arms ;  and  I  did  not  believe  there 
'  could  be  any  one  produced  that  could  truly  fay  he  was 
'  terrified  with  our  meeting.     Befidcs,  I  told  them  we  wei,-? 


1674]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ,89 

*  but  in  our  journey,  the  occafion  whereof  I  now  related  as 

*  beforeo     As  to  the  oaths,  I  fhewed  why  I  could  not  take 

*  them  (feeing  Chrift  hath  forbidden  all  fwearing)  and  what 

*  I  could  fay  or  fign  in  lieu  of  them,  as  I  had  done  before. 

*  Yet  they  caufed  the  oaths  to  be  read  to  me,  and  after- 

*  wards  read  an  indi6lment,   which   they  had  drawn  up  in 

*  readinefs,  having  a  jury  ready  alfo.'  When  the  indi6t- 
ment  was  read,  the  judge  afked  me,  '  If  I  was  guilty  ?'  I 
faid,   ^  Nay ;    for  it  was  a  great  bundle  of  lies ;    which  I 

*  fhewed  and  proved  to  the  judge  in  feveral  particulars, 
'  which  I  inflanced ;  aflcing  him,  if  he  did  not  know  in  his 

*  confcience  they  were  lies  ?*  He  faid,  '  It  was  their  form.' 
I  faid,    '  It  was  not  a  true  form.'     He  afked   me  again, 

*  Whether  I  was  guilty  ?'      I   told  him,  '  Nay,    I  was  not 

*  guilty  of  the  matter,  nor  of  the  form  ;  for  I  was  againfl  the 

*  pope  and  popery,  and  did  acknowledge  and  fliould  fet  my 

*  hand  to  that.'  Then  the  judge  told  the  jury  what  they 
fhould  fay  and  do,  and  what  they  fliould  write  on  the  back- 
fide  of  the  indiftment ;  and  as  he  faid,  they  did.  But  be- 
fore the  jury  gave  in  their  verdift,  I  told  them,  '  It  was  for 
'  Chrift's  fake,   and  in  obedience  to  his  and  his  apoftle's 

*  command,  that  I  could  not  fwear;  therefore,'  faid  I,  '  take 

*  heed  what  ye  do,  for  before  his  judgment-feat  ye  fliall  all 
■  be  brought.'     The  judge  faid,  *  This  is  canting.'     I  faid, 

*  If  to  confefs  Chrifl;  our  Lord  and  Saviour,  and  to  obey  his 

*  command,  be  called  canting  by  a  judge  of  a  court,  it  is  to 

*  little  purpofe  for  me  to  fay  more  among  you  ;  yet  ye  ftiall 

*  fee  that  I  am  a  chriftian,  and  fhail  fliew  forth  chriflianity, 

*  and  my  innoccncy  fhall  be  manifeft.'  So  the  gaoler  led 
me  out  of  the  court ;  and  the  people  were  generally  tender, 
as  if  they  had  been  in  a  meeting.  Soon  after  I  was  brought 
in  again,  and  the  jury  found  the  bill  againfl;  me,  which  I 
traverfed.  Then  I  was  afked  to  put  in  bail  till  the  next 
feflions,  and  the  gaoler's  fon  offered  to  be  bound  for  me. 
But  I  flopped  him,  and  warned  friends  not  to  meddle,  for 
I  told  them,  '  There  v;as  a  fnare  in  that ;'  3'et  I  told  ths 
juftices,  I  could  promife  to  appear  if  the  Lord  gave  hc.ilth 
and  ftrength,  and  I  was  at  liberty.  Some  of  the  juflices 
were  loving,  and  would  have  flopped  the  reft  from  indit- 
ing me  or  putting  the  oath  to  me  ;  but  judge  Street  the 
chairman  faid,  '  He  muft  go  according  to  law.'  So  I  was 
fent  to  prifon  again  ;  yet  within  two  hours  after,  througli 
the  moderation  of  fome  of  the  juftices.  I  had  liberty  given 
jne  till  next  quarter- feflions.     Thefe  moderate  juftices,  as  i$ 


190  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1674 

was  faid,  defircd  juftice  Parker  to  writ?  to  the  king  for  my 
liberty,  or  for  a  Noli  profequi,  becaufe  they  were  fatisfied 
I  was  not  fuch  a  dangerous  perfon  as  I  had  been  reprefent- 
ed.  This,  it  was  faid,  he  promifed  to  do,  but  did  it  not. 
After  I  had  got  a  copy  of  the  indi6tment,  I  went  to  Lon-- 
don,  vihting  friends  as  I  went.  When  I  came  there, 
fome  that  were  carnefl  to  get  me  out  of  the  hands  of  thofe 
envious  juflices  that  fought  to  premunire  me  at  Worcefter, 
would  needs  be  tampering  again,  to  bring  me  before  the 
judges  of  the  King's  Bench  ;  whereupon  I  was  brought 
again  by  an  Habeas  Corpus  before  them.  I  tendered  them 
a  paper,  in  which  was  contained  what  I  could  fay  inftead  of 
the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy,   as  followeth  : 

*  'THHIS  I  do  in  the  truth  and  in  the  prefence  of  God  de- 
'  X.  ciare,  That  king  Charles  the  Second  is  lawful  king  of 
'  this  realm,  and  of  all  other  his  dominions ;  that  he  was 
'  brought  in  and  fet  up  king  over  this  realm  by  .the  power  of 
'  God  ;  and  I  have  nothing  but  love  and  good  will  to  him 
'  and  all  his  fubje6ls,  and  defire  his  profperity  and  eternal 

*  good.      I  do  utterly  abhor  and  deny  the  pope's  power  and 

*  fupremacy,  and  all  his  fuperftitions  and  idolatrous  inven- 
'  tions ;  and  do  affirm,  that  he  hath  no  power  to  abfolve 
'  fm.  I  do  abhor  and  deteft  his  murdering  of  princes,  or 
'  other  people,  by  plots  or  contrivances.  And  like  wife  I  do 
'  deny  all  plots  and  contrivances,  and  plotters  and  contriv- 
'  ers  againft  the  king  and  his  fubjefts  ;  knowing  them  to  be 
'  the  works  of  darknefs,  the  fruits  of  an  evil  fpirit,  againft 

*  the  peace  of  the  kingdom,  and  not  from  the  Spirit  of  God, 
'  the  fruit  of  which  is  love.  I  dare  not  take  an  oath,  be- 
'  caufe  it    is  forbidden  by  Chrift  and  the  apoflle  ;  but  if  I 

*  break  my  Yea  or  Nay,  let  me  fuflFer  the  lame^penalty  as 

*  thofe  that  break  their  oaths. 

'  George   Fox.' 

But  the  bufmefs  being  fo  far  proceeded  in  at  Worcefter, 
they  would  not  meddle  in  it,  but  left  me  to  appear  agaim 
before  the  juftices  at  the  next  general  quarter-feffions  at 
Worccftcr. 

Meanwhile  the  yearly  meeling  of  friends  came  on,  at 
which  I  was  prefent ;  and  exceeding  glorious  the  meetings 
were,  beyond  exprefiion ;  bleiled  be  the  Lord  ! 

After  the  yearly  meeting,  I  fet  forward  for  Worcefter, 
the  leflicns  drawing  on,  ^vhich  were  held  in  the  fifth  month. 


167+]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  191 

,  When  I  was  called  to  the  bar,  and  the  indi6lment  read, 
fome  fcruple  anfing  among  the  jury  concerning  it,  the  judge 
of  the  court,  juftice  Street,  caufed  the  oaths  to  be  read  and 
tendered  to  me  again.      I  told  him,   '  I  came  now  to  try  the 

*  travcrfe  of  my  indi6lment ;  and  that  his  tendering  me  the 
'  oaths  anew,  was  a  new  fnare.      I  defired  him  to  anfwer  me 

*  a  queftion  or   two  ;  and  afked  him.   Whether  the  oaths 

*  were  to  be  tendered  to  the  king's  fubjects,  or  to  the  fub- 
'  jeds  of  foreign  princes?'   He  laid,   '  To   the  fubjetls   of 

*  this  realm/     '  Then,'  faid  I,  '  You  have  not  named  me  a 

*  lubjeft  in  the  indiftment,  and  therefore  have  not  brought 

*  me  within  the  ftatute.'  The  judge  cried,  '  Read  the  oath 
'  Po  him.'  I  faid,  '  I  require  juftice.'  Again  I  aflted  him, 
'  Whether  the  feffions  ought  not  to  have  been  holden  for 
'  the  king,  and  the  body  of  the  county  ?'  He  faid,  '  Yes.' 
'  Then,'  faid  I,  you  have  there  left  the  king  out  of  the  m- 
"  diftment ;  how  then  can  you  proceed  upon  this  indiclment 

*  to  a  trial  between  the  king  and  me,  feemg  the  king  is  left 

*  but  ?'   He  faid,   '  The   king  was  in  before.'     But  I   told 

*  him,   '  The  king's  name  being  left  out,  here  was  a  great 

*  error  in  the  inditlment,  and  fufficient,  as  I  was  informed 
'  to  quafh  it.  Befides,  I  told  him  that  I  was  committed 
'  by  the  name  of  George  Fox  of  London,  but  now  I  was 

*  indifted  by  the  name  of  George  Fox  of  Tredington  in 
'  the  county  of  Worcefter.  I  wiflied  the  jury  to  confidcr 
'  how  they  could  find  me  guilty  upon  that  indictment,  fee- 
'  ing  I  was  not  of  the  place  the  indiftment  mentioned." 
The  judge  did  not  deny  but  there  were  errors  in  the  indift- 
ment;  but  faid,  '  I  might  take  my  remedy  in  its  proper 
'  place.'  I  anfwered,  '  You  know  that  we  are  a  people  that 
'  fufrer  all  thin^js,    and  bear  all  things  ,•  and   therefore  ye 


we 


'  thus  ufe  us,  becaufe  we  cannot  re\'engc  ourfelves  ;  but 

*  leave  our  caufe  to  the  Lord.'     The  judge  faid,  '  The  oath 

*  hath  been  tendered  to  you  feveral  times,  and  we  will  have 

*  fome  fatisfaftion  from  you  concerning  the  oath.'  I  offer- 
ed them  the  fame  declaration  inRead  of  the  oath,  which  I 
had  offered  to  the  judges  above;  but  it  would  not  be  ac- 
cepted. Then  I  defired  to  know,  feeing  they  put  the  oath 
anev*'  to  me,  whether  the  indi6lmcnt  was  quaflicd  or  no  ?  In- 
llead  of  anfwering  me,  the  judge  told  the  jury,  '  They 
'might  go  out.'  Some  of  the  jury  were  not  fatisfied; 
wliereupon  the  judge  told  them,  '  They  had  heard  a  man 
'  fwear  that  the  oath  was  tendered  to  me  the  laft  fclfions  ;' 
and  then  direfted  what  they  ftould  do.     I  told  him,  '  He 


192  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1674 

*  ftiould  leave  the  jury  to  their  own  confciences/  However, 
the  jury,  being  put  on  by  him,  went  forth,  and  foon  after 
came  in  again,  and  found  me  guilty.  I  afked  them,  '  How 

*  they  could  fatisfy  themfelves  to  find  me  guilty  upon  that 

*  indiftment,  which  was  laid  fo  falfe,  and  had  fo  many  er- 

*  rors  in  it  ?'  They  could  make  but  little  anfwer ;  yet  one 
who  feemed  to  be  the  worft  of  them,  would  have  taken  me 
by  the  hand  ;  but  I  put  him  by,  faying,  '  How  now,  '  Ju- 

*  das,  haft  thou  betrayed  me,  and  doft  thou  now  come  with 

*  a  kifs  ?'  So  I  bid  him  and  them  repent.  Then  the  judge 
began  to  tell  me,  '  How  favourable  the  court  had  been  to 

*  me.'     I  afked  him,  '  How  he  could  fay  fo  ?  Was  ever 

*  any  man  worfe  dealt  by  than  I  had  been  in  this  cafe,  who 

*  was  flopped  in  my  journey  when  travelling  upon  my  law- 

*  ful   occafions,    and  imprifoned  without  caufe  ;  and  now 

*  had  the  oaths  put  to  me  only  for  a  fnare  ?   I  defired  him 

*  to  anfwer  me  in  the  prefence  of  the  Lord,  in  whofe  pre- 
'  fence  we   all  are,  whether  this   oath  was  not  tendered  to 

*  me  in  envy  ?'  He  would  not  anfwer  that ;  but  faid, 
'  Would  you  had  never  come  here,  to  trouble  us  and  the 
'  country  !'  I  anfwered,  '  I  came  not  thither  of  myfelf,  but 
'  was  brought,  being  ftopped  in  my  journey.  I  did  not 
'  trouble  them,  but  they  had  brought  trouble  upon  them- 
'  felves.'     Then  the  judge  told  me,  '  What  a   fad  fentence 

*  he  had  to  tell  me.'  I  afked  him,  '  Whether  what  he  was 
'  going  to  fpeak  was  by  way  of  paffing  fentence,  or  for  in- 
'  formation  ?  For  I  told  him  I  had  many  things  to  fay,  and 
'  more  errors  to  aflign  in  theindiftment,  befides  thofe  I  had 
'  already  mentioned,  to  ftop  him  from  giving  fentence 
'  againfl  me  upon  that  indiftment.'  He  faid,  '  He  was  go- 
'  ing  to  Ihevvme  the  danger  of  a  premunire,  which  was  the 
'  lofs  of  my  liberty  and  of  all  my  goods  and  chattels,  and  to 
'  fufFer  imprifonment  daring  life.'  But  he  faid,  '  He  did 
'  not  deliver  this  as  the  fentence  of  the  court  upon  me,  but 
'  as  an  admonition  to  me.'  Then  he  bid  the  gaoler  '  Take 
'  me  away.'  I  expefted  to  have  been  called  again  to  hear 
the  fentence  ;  but  when  I  was  gone,  the  Clerk  of  the  peace 
(whofe  name  was  Twittey)  afked  him,  as  I  was  informed, 
'  Whether  tlxat  which  he  had  fpoken  to  me  fhouid  Hand  for 
'  fentence?'  And  he,  confulting  with  fome  of  the  juftices, 
told  him,  '  Yes,  that  was  the  fentence,  and  ihouid  fland.' 
This  was  done  behind  my  back,  to  lave  himfelf  from  fhame 
in  the  face  of  the  country.  Many  of  the  juftices,  and  the 
generality  of  the  j^coplc,    were  moderate  and  civil;    and 


1674]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ,93 

John  Afliley,  a  lawyer,  v/as  very  friendly  both  the  time  be- 
fore and  now,  fpeaking  on  my  behalf,  and  pleading  the  errors 
of  the  inditlment  forme;  but  juftice  Street,  the  judge  of 
the  court,  would  not  regard,  but  over-ruled  all.  This  juf- 
tice Street  faid  to  fome  friends  in  the  morning  before  my 
trial,  '  That  if  he  had  been  upon  the  bench  the  firft  felfions, 
'  he  would  not  have  tendered  me  the  oath ;  but  if  I  had 

*  been  convided  of  being  at  a  conventicle,  he  would  have 

*  proceeded  againft  me  according  to  that  law ;  and  that  he 
'  was  forry  that  ever  I  came  before  him  ;'  yet  he  malicioufly 
tendered  the  oath  to  me  in  the  court  again,  when  I  was  to 
have  tried  my  traverfe  upon  the  indi61^^ment.  But  the  Lord 
pleaded  my  caufe,  and  met  with  both  him  and  juftice  Simp- 
Ibn,  who  firft  enfnared  me  with  the  oath  at  the  firft  felTions; 
for  Simpfon's  Ion  was  arraigned  not  long  after  at  the  fame 
bar  for  murder.  And  Street,  vvho,  as  he  came  down  from 
London,  after  the  judges  had  returned  me  back  from  the 
King's  Bench  to  Worcefter,  (aid,  '  Now  I  was  returned  to 
them,  I  lliould  '  lie  in  prifon  and  rot;'  had  his  daughter 
(whom  he  fo  doted  on  that  fhe  was  called  his  idol)  brought 
dead  from  London  in  an  herfe  to  the  fame  inn  where  he 
fpoke  thofe  words,  and  brought  to  Worcefter  to  be  buried 
within  a  few  days  after.  People  took  notice  of  the  hand  of 
God,  how  fudden  k  was  upon  him  ;  but  it  rather  hardened 
than  tendered  him,  as  his  carriage  afterwards  ihewed. 

After  I  was  returned  to  prifon,  feveral  came  to  fee  me ; 
amongft  others,  the  earl  of  Salifbury's  fon,  who  was  very 
loving,  and  troubled  that  they  had  dealt  fo  wickedly  by  me. 
He  ftaid  about  two  hours  with  me,  and  took  a  copy  of  the 
errors  of  the  indiftment  in  writing. 

The  fefTions  being  now  over,  and  I  fixed  in  prifon  by  a 
premunire,  my  wife  came  out  of  the  north  to  be  with  me  ; 
and  the  affizes  coming  on  in  the  fixth  month,  the  ftate  of  my 
cafe  being  drawn  up  in  writing,  fhe  and  Thomas  Lower 
delivered  it  to  judge  Wild.  In  it  was  fet  forth  the  occafion 
of  my  journey,  the  manner  of  my  being  taken  and  imprifon- 
ed,  the  proceedings  of  the  feveral  felhons  againft  me,  and 
the  errors  in  the  indiftment  by  which  I  was  premunired. 
When  the  judge  had  read  it,  be  fhook  his  head,  and  faid, 
'  We  might  try  the  validity  or  invalidity  of  the  errors,  if  we 
'  would  ;'  which  was  all  they  could  get  from  him. 

While  I  lay  in  prifon,  it  came  upon  me  to  ftate  our  prin- 
ciple to  the  king :  not  with  particular  relation  to  my   own 

B    B 


,94  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1674 

fufFerings,  but  for  his  better  information  concerning  our 
principle,  and  us  as  a  people. 

To  the  KING. 

*  'T^ HE  principle  of  the  Quakers  is  the  Spirit  of  Chrifl, 

*  A  who  died  for  us,  andis  rifen  for  our  juftification  ;  by 

*  which  we  know  we  are  his.      He  dwelleth  in  us  by  his 

*  Spirit,  and  by  the  Spirit  of  Chrill  we  are  led  out  of  un- 

*  righteoufiiefs  and  ungodlinefs.  It  brings  us  to  deny  all 
'  plottings  and  contrivings  againft  the  king,  or  any  man. 
'  The  Spirit  of  Chrift  brings  us  to  deny  all  manner  of  un- 
'  godlinefs,  as  lying,    theft,  murder,  adultery,  fornication, 

*  all  uncleannefs,  debauchery^  malice,  hatred,  deceit,  co- 
'  Z'jning  and  cheating  whatfoever,  and  the   devil   and  his 

*  works.  The  Spirit  of  Chrift  brings  us  to  feek  the  peace 
'  and  good  of  all  men,  and  to  live  peaceably,  and  leads  us 

*  from  fuch  evil  aftions  as  the  magiflrate's  fword  takes  hold 

*  upon.     Our  dcfire  and    labour  is,  that  all  who  profefs 

*  themfelves  Chriftians  may  walk  in  the  Spirit  of  Chrift ; 
'  that  they  through  the  Spirit  may  mortify  the  deeds  of  the 

*  flefti,   and  by  the  fword  of  the  Spirit  may  cut  down  fm 

*  and  evil  in  themfelves.  Then  the  judges  and  other  ma- 
'  giftrates  would  not  have  fo  much  work  in  punilhing  fin  in 
'  the  kingdom  ;  neither  then  need  kings  or  princes  fear  any 
'  of  their  fubje6ts,  if  they  all  walked  in  the  Spirit  of  Chrift, 
'  for  the  fruits  of  the  Spirit  are  love,  righteoufnefs,  good- 

*  nefs,  temperance,  &c.  If  all  that  profefs  themfelves 
'  Chriftians  did  walk  in  the  Spirit  of  Chrift,  and  by  it  did 

*  mortify   fin  and  evil,  it  would  be  a  great  eafe   to  the  ma- 

*  giftrates  and  rulers,  and  would  free  them  from  a  great  deal 

*  of  trouble,  for  it  would  lead  all  "  to  do  unto  others  as  they 
"  would  have  others  do  unto  them,"  and  io  the  royal  law 

*  of  liberty  would  be  fulfilled.  For  if  all  called  Chriftians 
'  did  walk  in  the  Spirit  of  Chrift,  by  it  to  have  the  evil  fpi- 
'  rit  and  its  fruits  mortilicd   and  cut  down   in  them,  then, 

*  not  being  led  by  the  evil  fpirit,  but  by  the  good  Spirit  of 
'  Chrift,  the  tiuits  of  the  good  Spirit  would  appear  in  all. 
'  For  as  people  are  led  by  the  good  Spirit  of  Chrift,  it  leads 
'  them  out  of  {in  and  evil,  which  the  magiftrate's  fword 
'  takes  hold  of,  and  lo  would  be  an  eafe  to  the  magiftrates. 
'  But  as  people  err  from  this  good  Spirit  of  Chrift,  and  fol- 
'  low  the  evil  fpirit,  which  leads  them  into  lin  and  evil  ; 
'  that  j'pirit  brings  the  magiftratc  into   a  great  deal  of  trou- 


1674]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ,95 

*  ble,  to  execute  the  law  upon  the  finners  and  tranfoiefibis 

*  of  the  good  Spirit.     That  Spirit,  which  leads  people  Irom 

*  all  manner  of  fin  and  evil,  is  one  with  the  magiftrate's 
'  power,  and  with  the  righteous  law ;  for  the  law  being  ad- 

*  ded  becaufe  of  tranfgreffion,  that  Spirit  which  leads  out  of 

*  tranfgreffion  muft  needs  be  one  with  that  law  which  is 
'  againft  tranfgreffors.     So   that   Spirit  which  leads  out  of 

*  tranfgreffion  is  the  good  Spirit  of  Chrifl,  and  is  one  with 

*  the  inagiftrates  in  the  higher  power,  and  owns  it  and  them ; 

*  but  that  fpirit  which  leads  into  tranfgreffion  is  the  bad  fpi- 

*  rit,  is  agamft  the  law,  againft  the  magiftrates,  and  makes 

*  them  a  great  deal  of  troublefome  work.      The  manifefta- 

*  tion  of  the  good  Spirit  is  given  to  every  man  to  profit  with- 

*  al ;  and  no  man  can  profit  in  the  things  of  God  but  by 

*  the  Spirit  of  God,  which  brings  to  deny  all  fin  and  evil. 
'  It  is  faid  of  Ifrael,  Nehem.  ix.  "  The  Lord  gave  them 
"  his  good  Spirit  to  inftru6l  them,  yet  they  rebelled  againft 
"  it."  If  all  people  did  mind  this  manifeftation  of  the  Spi- 
'  rit  which  God  hath  given  to  inftruft  them,  it  would  lead 

*  them  toforfake  all  manner  of  fin  and  evil,  enmity,  hatred, 

*  malice,  unrighteoufnefs  and  ungodiinefs,  and  to  mortify 
'  it.      Then  in  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  they  would  have  fellow- 

*  fhip  and  unity,  which  is  the  bond  of  peace;  then  would 

*  love  and  peace,  which  are  the  fruits  of  the  good    Spirit, 

*  flow  among  all  that  are  called  Chriftians. 

'  We  are  a  people,  who,  in  tendernefs  of  confcience  to 

*  the  command  of  Chrift  and  his  apoftle,  cannot  fwear  ;   for 

*  we  are  commanded  in  Matth.  v.  and  James  v.  to  keep  to 

*  Yea  and  Nay,  and  "  not  to  fwear  at  all  ;  neither  by  hea- 
*'  yen,  nor  by  the  earth,  nor  by  any  other  oath,  left  we  go 
•'  into  evil,  and  fall  into  condemnation."  The  words  of 
'  Chrift  are  thefe  :  "  Ye  have  heard  that  it  hath  been  faid 
<'  by  (or  to)  them  of  old  time,  Thou  fhalt  not  forfwear  thy- 
"  felf,  but  ffialt  perform  unto  the  Lord  thine  oaths."  Thefe 

*  were  true  and  folemn  oaths,  which  thofe  who  made  ought 
'  to  have    performed  in  old  time;  but  thefe  Chrift  and  his 

*  apoftle  forbad  in  the  gofpel-times,  as  well  as  falfeand  vain 

*  oaths.      If  we  could  take  any  oath  at  all,  we   could  take 

*  the  oath  of  allegiance,  knowing  that  king  Charles  was  by 
'  the  power  of  God  brought  into  England,  and  ftt  up  king 
'  of  England,  &c.  over  the  heads  of  our  old  perfecuiors  ; 
<  and  as  for  the  pope's  fupremacy,  we  utterly  deny  ifi,.     And 

*  the  apoftle  having  com.manded  us  not  to  Iwcar,  but  to 
'  keep  to  Yea  and  Nay,  we  dare  not  break  their  commands ; 

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196  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1674 

*  therefore  many  knowing  this  have  put  the  oaths  to  us  as  a 

*  fnare,  that  they  might  make  a  prey  of  us.     Our  denying 

*  to  fwear  is  not  in   wilfulnefs,  flubbomnefs,  or  contempt, 

*  but  only  m  obedience  to  the  command  of  Chrift  and  his 

*  apoftle ;  and  we  are  content,  if  we  break  our    Yea  and 

*  Nay,  to  fufFer  the  fame   penalty  as  they  ihould  that  break 

*  their  oaths.      We  defire  therefore  that  the  king  would  take 

*  this  into  coniideration,  aifo  how  long  we  have  fufFered  in 
'  this  cafe.     This  is  from  one  who  defires  the  etfernal  good 

*  and  profperity  of  the  king  and  of  all  his  fubjedts  in  the 

*  Lord  lefus  Chrift. 

*  G.  F.' 

About  this  time  I  had  a  fit  of  ficknefs,  which  brought 
me  very  low  and  weak  in  my  body ;  and  I  continued  fo  a 
pretty  while,  infomuch  that  fome  friends  began  to  doubt  of 
my  recovery.  I  feemed  to  myfelf  to  be  amongft  the  graves 
and  dead  corpfes ;  yet  the  invifible  power  did  fecretly  fup- 
port  me,  and  conveyed  refrefhing  ftrength  into  me,  even 
when  I  was  fo  weak  that  I  was  almoft  fpeechlefs.  One 
night,  as  I  was  lying  awake  upon  my  bed  in  the  glory  of 
the  Lord  which  was   over  all,  it  was  faid  unto  me,   '  That 

*  the  Lord  had  a  great  deal  more  work  for  me  to  do  for  him, 

*  before  he  took  me  to  himfelf.' 

Endeavours  were  ufed  to  get  me  releafed,  at  leaft  for  a 
time  till  I  fhouldgrow  ftronger;  but  the  way  of  efiFefting  it 
proving  difficult  and  tedious  (for  the  king  was  not  willing  to 
releafe  me  by  any  other  way  than  a  pardon,  being  told  he 
could  not  legally  do  it ;  and  I  was  not  willing  to  accept  of  a 
pardon,  which  he  would  readily  have  given  me,  becaufe  I 
did  not  look  upon  that  way  as  agreeable  with  the  innocence 
of  my  caufe)  Edward  Pit  way,  having  occafion  to  fpeak 
with  juftice  Parker  upon  bufinefs,  defired  him  to  give  or- 
der to  the  gaoler,  That,  in  regard  of  my  weaknefs,  1  might 
have  liberty  to  go  out  of  the  gaol  into  the  city.  Whereup- 
on juftice  Parker  wrote  the  following  letter  to  the  gaoler, 
and  font  it  to  the  friend  to  deliver. 

'  Mr.    Harris, 
'  T  HAVE  been  much  importuned   by   fome  friends  to 
'  X  George  Vox.  to  write  to  you.   I  am  informed  by  them, 
'  that  he  is  in  a  very  weak  condition,  and  very  much  indif- 

*  pofed :  what  lawful  favour  you  can  do,  for  the  benefit  of 


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*  the  air  for  his  health,  pray  fhew  him.     I  fuppofe,  the  next 

*  term  they  will  make  application  to  the 'ting.     1  am,  Sir, 

'  Your  loving  friend, 
*  Evefham,  the  8th  of  '  Henry   Parker/ 

'  Oaob.   1674. 

After  this,  my  wife  went  to  London,  and  fpoke  to  the 
king;    '  laying  before  him  my  long  and  unjuft  imprifon- 

*  ment,  with  the  manner  of  my  being  taken,  and  the  juftices 

*  proceedings   againft  me,    in  tendering  me  the  oath  as  a 

*  fnare,  whereby  they  had  premunired  me :   fo  that  I  being 

*  now  his  prifoner,  it  was  in  his  power  and  at  his  pleafure 

*  to  releafe  me;  which  fhe  defired.'  The  king  fpoke  kindly 
to  her,  and  referred  her  to  the  lord  keeper ;  to  whom  fhe 
went,  but  could  not  obtain  what  fhe  defired ;  for  he  laid, 

*  The  king  could  not  releafe  me  otherwife  than  by  a  par- 
'  don ;'  and  I  was  not  free  to  receive  a  pardon,  knowing  I 
had  not  done  evil.  If  I  would  have  been  freed  by  a  par- 
don, I  needed  not  have  laid  fo  long;  for  the  kmg  was 
willing  to  have  given  me  one  long  before ;  and  told  Tho- 
mas Moore,  '  That  I  need  not  fcruple  being  releafed  by  a 

*  pardon,  for  many  a  man  that  was  as  innocent  as  a  child 

*  had  had  a  pardon  granted  him  :'  yet  I  could  not  confent 
to  accept  one.  For  I  had  rather  have  lain  in  prifon  all 
my  days,  than  come  out  in  any  way  difhonourable  to  truth: 
wherefore  I  chofe  to  have  the  validity  of  my  indiftment 
tried  before  the  judges.  Having  firft  the  opinion  of  a 
counfellor  upon  it  (Thomas  Corbet  of  London,  whom 
Richard  Davis  of  Welchpool  was  well  acquainted  with, 
and  recommended  to  me)  an  Habeas  Corpus  was  fent  to 
Worcefter,  to  bring  me  up  once  more  to  the  King's  Bench 
bar,  for  the  trial  of  the  errors  in  my  indiftment.  The  un- 
der-IherilF  fet  forward  with  me  the  fourth  of  the  twelfth 
month,  there  being  alfo  in  the  coach  the  clerk  of  the  peace, 
and  fome  others.  The  clerk  had  been  my  enemy  all  along, 
and  now  fought  to  enfnare  me  in  difcourfe ;  but  I  faw,  and 
ihunned  him.      He  afked  me,   '  What  I  would  do  with  the 

*  errors  in  the  indiftment  ?'     I  told  him,   *  They  fhould  be 

*  tried,  and  every  action  fhould  crown  itfelf.'  He  quarrel- 
led with  me  for  calling  their  miniflers  pricfls.  I  aficed 
him,   '  If  the  law  did  not  call  them  fo  ?'     He  afked  mc, 

*  What  I  thought  of  the  church  of  England  ?     Were  there 

*  no  Chriftians  among  them  ?'     I  faid,  '  They  are  all  called 

*  fo.  and  there  are  many  tender  people  aniongft  them.'    ^Ve 


193  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1674 

came  to  London  the  eighth  of  the  twelfth  month,  and  the 
eleventh  I  was  brought  before  the  four  judges  at  the  Kmg's 
Bench,  where  counfellor  Corbet  flarted  a  new  plea.  He 
told  the  judges,  ^  They  could  not  imprifon  any  man  upon 
'  a  piemunire/  Whereupon  the  chief  juflice  Hale  faid, 
'  Mr.  Corbet,  you  fhould  have  come  fooner,  at  the  begm- 

*  ning  of  the  term,  with  this  plea.'  He  anfwered,  '  We 
'  could  not  get  a  copy  of  the  return  and  the  indiftment/ 
The  judge  replied,  '  You  fhould  have  told  us,  and  we 
'  would  have  forced  them  to  have  made  a  return  fooner/ 
Then  faid  judge  Wild,  '  Mr.  Corbet,  you  go  upon  general 

*  terras ;  and  if  it  be  fo  as  you  fay,  we  have  committed  ma- 

*  ny  errors  at  the  Old  Bailey,  and  in  other  courts.'  Corbet 
"was  pofitive  that  by  law  they  could  not  imprifon  upon  a 
premunire.  The  judge  faid,  '  There  is  fummons  in  the 
'  flatute.'     '  Yes,'  laid  Corbet,  '  but  fummons  is  not  impri- 

*  fonment,  for  fummons  is  in  order  to  a  trial.'  '  Well,'  faid 
the  judge,  '  we  mull  have  time  to  look  in  our  books,  and 
'  confult  the  llatutes.'  So  the  hearing  was  put  off  tiU  next 
day. 

The  next  day  they  chofe  rather  to  let  this  plea  fall, 
and  begin  with  the  errors  of  the  indiftment;  and  when 
they  came  to  be  opened,  they  were  fo  many  and  grofs, 
that  the  judges  were  all  of  opinion  the  '  indictment  was 
'  qualhed  and  void,    and  that  I  ought  to  have   my  liber- 

*  ty.'  Tliere  were  that  day  feveral  great  men,  lords  and 
others,  who  had  the  oaths  of  allegiance  and  fupremacy 
tendered  to  them  in  open  court,  juft  before  my  trial 
came  on ;  and  fome  of  my  adverfaries  moved  the  judges, 
that  the  oaths  might  be  tendered  again  to  me,  telling  them, 
'  I  was  a  dangerous  man  to  be  at  liberty.'  But  judge  Hale 
faid,   '  He  had  indeed  heard  fome  fuch  reports,  but  he  had 

*  alfo  heard  many  more  good  reports  of  me ;'  fo  he,  with 
the  reft  of  the  judges,  ordered  me  to  be  freed  by  proclama- 
tion. Thus  after  1  had  fulFered  imprifonment  a  year  and 
almoft  two  months  for  nothing,  I  was  fairly  fet  at  liberty 
upon  a  trial  of  the  errors  of  my  indiftmcnt,  without  receiv- 
ing any  pardon,  or  coming  under  any  obligation  or  en- 
gagement at  all ;  and  the  Lord's  everlafting  power  went 
over  all,  to  his  glory  and  praife.  Counfellor  Corbet  got 
great  fame  by  it;  many  of  the  lawyers  told  him,  '  He  had 
'  brought  that  to  light  which  had  not  been  known  before, 

*  as  to  the  not  imprifoning  upon  a  premunire ;'  and  after 
the  tnal  a  j'idge  faid  to  him,   '  You  have  obtained  a  great 


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*  deal  of  honour  by  pleading  George  Fox's  caufe  fo  in 
'*  court.' 

During  the  time  of  my  imprifonment  in  Worcefter  (not- 
withftanding  my  want  of  health,  and  being  fo  often  hurried 
to  and  fro  to  London  and  back)  I  wrote  feveral  books 
for  the  prefs,  one  whereof  was  called,  '  A  warning  to  En- 
'  gland;'  another  was,  '  To  the  Jews,  proving  by  the  pro- 
'  phets,  that  the  Meffiah  is  come;'    another,  '  Concerning 

*  infpiration,  revelation,  and  prophecy ;'  another,  '  Againft 

*  all  vain  difputes  ;'  another,  '  For  all  bifhops   and  minif- 

*  ters   to   try    themfelves  by  the  fcriptures ;'  another,  '  To 

*  fuch  as  fay,   We  love  none  but  ourfelves ;'   another,  inti- 

*  tuled,  '  Our  teftimony  concerning  Chrift  ;'  and  another 
little  book  *  concerning  Swearing,'  being  the  lirfl  of  thofe 
two  given  to  the  parliament.  Befides  thefe,  I  wrote  many 
papers  and  epiftles  to  friends,  to  encourage  and  ftrengthen 
them  in  their  fervices  for  God,  which  fome  (who  made  pro- 
fefiion  of  truth,  but  had  given  way  to  a  feducing  fpirit, 
and  were  departed  from  the  unity  and  fellowfhip  of  the  gof- 
pel,  in  which  friends  (land)  endeavoured  to  difcourage  them 
from  ;  efpecially  in  their  diligent  and  watchful  care  for  the 
well-ordering  and  managing  the  alfairs  of  the  church  of 
Chrift. 

Being  at  liberty,  I  vifited  friends  in  London  ;  and  having 
been  very  weak,  and  not  yet  well  recovered,  I  went  to 
Kmgflon  ;  and  having  vifited  friends  there,  returned  to 
London,  wrote  a  paper  to  the  parliament,  and  fent  feveral 
books  to  them.  A  great  book  againft  fweanng  had  been 
delivered  to  them  a  little  before;  the  reafonablenefs  where- 
of had  fo  much  influence,  that  it  was  thought  they  would 
have  done  fomething  towards  our  relief  if  they  had  fat  lon- 
ger. I  ftaid  in  and  near  London  till  the  yearly  meeting, 
to  which  friends  came  from  moft  parts  of  the  nation,  and 
fome  from  beyond  fea.  A  glorious  meeting  we  had  in  the 
everlafting  power  of  God. 

This  meeting  over,  and  the  parliament  rifen  (who  had 
done  nothing  for  nor  againft  friends)  I  was  clear  of  my  ier- 
vice  for  the  Lord  at  London.  And  having  taken  my  leave 
of  friends  there,  and  had  a  glorious  meeting  with  Ibme  of 
them  at  John  Elfon's  in  the  morning,  I  let  forward  with 
my  wife  and  her  daughter  Sulan  by  coach  (for  I  was  not 
able  to  travel  on  horfeback)  towards  the  north,  many  friends 
accompanying  us  as  far  as  Highgate,  and  fome  to  Dunftablc, 
where  we  Iodised  that  u'wht.     Wc  \:fited  friend:^  and  v/erc 


200  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1675 

vifited  by  them  at  Newport-Pagnel,  Northampton,  and 
CofTel,  where,  amongft  others,  came  a  woman,  and  brought 
her  daughter  for  me  to  fee  how  well  fhe  was ;  putting  me 
in  mind,  '  That  when  I  was  there  before,  ftie  had  brought 

*  her  to  me  much  troubled  with  the  king's  evil,  and  had 
'  then  defired  me  to  pray  for  her/  Which  I  did,  and  fhe 
mended  upon  it;  praifed  be  the  Lord!  From  CofTel  we 
went  by  John  Simcock's  and  William  Gaudy's  to  Warring- 
ton, Prefton  and  Lancafter. 

I  had  not  been  at  Lancafter  fince  I  was  carried  prifoner 
from  thence  by  the  under-ftierifF  and  gaoler,  towards  Scar- 
borough caftle  in  Yorkfhire.  I  found  the  town  full  of  peo- 
ple ;  for  it  was  fair-time,  and  the  trained  bands  were  met 
upon  a  general  mufter.  Many  friends  were  alfo  in  town 
from  feveral  parts  of  the  county,  becaufe  the  quarterly  meet- 
ing was  to  be  there  next  day.  I  ftaid  two  nights  and  a  day 
at  Lancafter,  and  vifited  friends  both  at  their  men's  and 
women's  meetings,  which  were  very  full,  large,  and  peace- 
able ;  for  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all,  and  none  meddled 
with  us.  Here  met  us  Thomas  Lower  and  his  wife,  Sarah 
Fell,  James  Lancafter,  and  Leonard  Fell.  The  next  day 
after  the  meeting,  the  twenty-fifth  of  the  fourth  month,  we 
went  over  the  fands,  with  feveral  other  friends  to  Swarth- 
more. 

After  I  had  been  awhile  at  Swarthmore,  feveral  friends 
from  divers  parts  of  the  nation  came  to  vifit  me,  and  fome 
out  of  Scotland  -,  by  whom  I  underftood,  four  young  ftu- 
dents  of  Aberdeen  were  convinced  there  this  year,  at  a  dif- 
pute  held  by  Robert  Barclay  and  George  Keith  with  fome 
of  the  fcholars  of  that  univerfity. 

Among  others,  colonel  Kirby  paid  me  a  vifit,  who  had 
been  one  of  my  great  perfecutors  ;  but  now  he  faid  he  came 
to  bid  me  welcome  into  the  country,  and  carried  himfelf  in 
appearance  very  lovingly ;  yet  before  I  left  Swarthmore  he 
fent  for  the  conftables  of  Ulverftone,  and  ordered  them  to 
tell  me,  '  That  we  muft  have  no  more  meetings  at  Swarth- 
'  more ;  for   if  we  had,  they  were  commanded   by  him  to 

*  break  them  up,  and  were  to  come  the  next  firft-day.' 
That  day  we  had  a  very  precious  meeting,  the  Lord's  pre- 
fence  was  wonderful  amongft  us,  and  the  conftables  did  not 
come  to  difturb  us.  The  meetings  have  been  quiet  fince, 
and  have  increafed. 

The  illnefs  I  got  in  my  imprifonment  at  Worcefter  had 
fo  much  weakened  me,  it  was  long  before  I  recovered  my 


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natural  ftrength  again.  For  which  reafon,  and  as  I  had  many- 
things  lay  upon  me  to  write  for  public  and  private  fervice, 
I  did  not  ftu'  much  abroad  during  the  time  I  now  ftaid  in 
the  north ;  bat  when  friends  were  not  with  me,  fpent  pretty 
much  time  in  writing  books  and  papers  for  truth's  fervice. 
While  I  was  at  Swarthmore,  I  gave  feveral  to  be  printed; 
viz. 

One,   '  ConcerninfT  fwearinfj.' 

Another,  fliewing,  '  That  none  arc  fuccelTors  to  the 
'  prophets  and  apoftles,  but  who  fucceed  them  in  the  fame 
'  power  and  Holy  Ghoft  that  they  were  in.' 

Another,  (hewing,  '  That  poileffion  is  above  profefTion  ; 
'  and  how  the  profeflors  now  do  perlecute  Chrift  in   fpirit, 

*  as  the  profeffing  Jews  did  perfecute  him  outwardly  in  the 

*  days  of  his  flelh.' 

Another  little  book,   '  To  the  magillrates  of  Dantzick.' 
Another,   called,   '  Cain  againd  Abel ;  or,  An  anfwer  to 

*  the  Nevv-England  men's  laws.' 

Another,   '  To  friends  at  Nevis,  concerning  watching.' 
Another,   '  A  general  epiflle  to  all  friends  in  America/ 
Another,   '  Concerning  Casfar's  due,  and  God's  due,  &c.' 
Another,   '  Concerning  ordering  of  families.' 
Another,  intituled,  '  The  fpiritual  man  judgethall  things.' 
Another,   '  Concerning  the  higher  power.' 
Befides  thefe,  I  WTOte  feveral  epiftles  to  friends,  both  in 
England  and  beyond  the  feas  ;   and  anfwers  to  divers  papers 
concerning  the  '  running  out  of  fome  who  had  oppolcd  the 
'  order  of  the  gofpel,'  had  fliri-ed  up  a  great  deal  of  llrife 
and  contention  in  Weflmoreland.     Wherefore  I  was  moved 
to  write  a  few  lines  particularly  to  friends  there. 

*  This  is  for  friends  in  Weflmoreland  : 

'  A  LL  live  in  the  power  of  God,  in  his  light  and  Spirit, 
'  j7\  which  did  firft  convince  you  ;  that  in  it  ye  may  keep 
'  in  the  ancient  unity,  in  humility,  in  the  fear  of  the  Lord, 

*  and  his  gentle  and  peaceable  wildom,  which  is  eafy  to  be 
'  intreatecl.  That  in  the  fame  power,  light,  and  Spirit  of 
'  God,  ye  may  be  ferviceable  in  your  men's  and  women's 

*  meetings,  in   the   poffeffion    of   the    gofpel-order ;    which 

*  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  hath  brought  life  and  immor- 
'  tality  to  light;  that  in  this  ye  may  fee  over  him  that  hath 
'  darkened  you.  In  this  power  no  apoftates  can  come ;  for 
'  the  power  of  God  was  before  apoftates  were,  or  the  fall  of 

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203  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1676 

*  man  and  woman  was,  or  the  devil  either,  and  will  be 
'  when  he  is  gone.  Therefore  praife  God  in  the  eternal 
'  fellowfhip  of  the  everlafting  gofpel  of  Jefus  Chrift,  which 
'  is  not  of  man,  nor  by  man.  And  all  friends  in  Weft- 
'  moreland,  keep  in  the  power  of  God,  which  will  and  muft 
'  preferve  and  cover  you,  if  ye  be  preferved.      Let  your 

*  faith  ftand  in  the  power  of  God,  and  not  in  the  wifdom 
'  of  men's  words,  left  ye  fall.      In  God's  power  ye  have 

*  peace,  life,  and  unity ;  and  for  want  of  keeping  in  God's 
'  power,  in  his  righteoufncfs  and  Holy  Ghoft,  is  all  this 
'  ilrife  come  among  you. 

'  G.  F/ 

I  alfo  wrote  the  following  general  epiftle  to  friends  at  the 
yearly  meeting  in  London  : 

'  My  dear  friends  and  brethren, 
'  T  7t  7HOM  the  Lord  hath  preferved  by  his  eternal  pow-> 
'  V  V  er  to  this  day,  over  and  through  many  troubles, 
'  florms,  tempefts,  and  prifons.  Let  every  one's  faith  ftand 
*"  in  the  power  of  God,  which  is  over  the  devil,  and  was  be- 
'  fore  him.  Your  faith  ftanding  in  the  invifible  power  of 
'  God,  it  ftands  in  that  which  does  not  change  ;  and  the  faith 
'  that  Chrift  Jefus,  the  power  of  God,  is  the  author  of, 
'  muft  ftand  in  the  power  of  God,  fo  then  it  ftands  in  that 
'  which  is  over  all,  in  which  they  are  eftablifhed.  This  the 
'  apoftle  brought  the  church,  the  true  Chriftians,  to  :  and  fo 
'  ought  all  the  true   Chriftians  faith  now,  which  Chrift  is 

*  the  author  of,  to  ftand  in  the  power  of  God,  in  which  the 
'  everlafting  kingdom  ftands.  As  every  one's  faith  ftands 
'  in  this  power,  it  keeps  all  in  the  power  of  godlinefs. 

'  For  as  it  was  in  the  days  of  the  apoftles,  when  lome  were 

*  crying  up  Paul  and  Apollos,  and  fo  forth,  he  judged  them 
'  as  carnal ;  and  exhorted  and  admoniflied  them  that  their 

*  faith  ftiould  not  ftand  in  men,  nor  in  the  words  of  man's 

*  wifdom,  but  in  the  power  of  God.  He  laid,  "  He  would 
"  not  know  the  Ipeech  of  them,  but  the  power  amongft 
"  them,  for  the  kingdom  of  God  is  not  in  word,  but  in  pow- 
*'  er."  So  it  is  to  be  now.  Every  one's  faith  muft  Itand 
'  in  the  power  of  God,  and  not  in  men,  nor  their  fpeeches 
'  upon  the  good  words.      For  we  have  feen  by  experience, 

*  when  they  begin  to  cry  up  men,  and  their  faith  ftands  in 

*  them  ;  fuch  as  would  have  people's  faith  to  ftand  in  them, 

*  love  popularity,  and  bring  not  people's  faith  to  ftand  in 


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205 


*  the  power  of  God.     Such  cannot  exalt  Chrifl ;  and  when 

*  fuch  fall,  they  draw  a  great  company  after  them.     Thcre- 

*  fore  the  apoftle  would  not  know  fuch  after  the  flefh,  but 
'  them  that  were  in  the  power  and  Spirit ;  and  llruck  down 

*  every  one's  faith  that  flood  in  the  words  of  man's  wifdom, 

*  that  they  might  ftand  in  the  power  of  God.      So  it  muft 

*  be  now.    They  whofe  faith  doth  not  ftand  therein,  cannot 

*  exalt  his  kingdom,  that  ftands  in  power;   therefore  every 

*  one's  faith  muft  ftand  in  the  power  of  God. 

'  The   apoftle  denied  popularity,    when  he  judged  the 

*  Corinthians  for  looking  at  Paul  and  Apollos,  to  be  car- 

*  nal :  fuch  are  carnal  ftill.     Therefore  all  ftiould  know  one 

*  another  in  the  Spirit,  life,  and  power,  and  look  at  Chrift ; 

*  this  keeps  all  in  humihty.  They,  whofe  faith  ftands  in 
'  men,  will  make  fe6ls ;  as  in  the  days  of  J.  N.  J.  P.  and 
'  others.     The  faith  of  fuch,   Chrift  is  not  the  author  of; 

*  if  he  hath  been,  they  have  erred  from  it,  and  made  fhip- 

*  wreck  of  it.     All  that  are  in  the  true  faith,  that  ftands  in 

*  the  power  of  God,  will  judge  them  as  carnal,  and  judge 

*  down   that   carnal   part   in  them,   that   cries  up   Paul  or 

*  Apollos;  that  their  faith  may  ftand  in  the  power  of  God, 

*  and  that  they  may  exalt  Chrift,   the  author  of  it.      For 

*  every  one's  eye  ought  to  be  to  Jefus,  and  every  juft  man 

*  and  woman  may  live  by  their  faith,  which  Chrift  is  the 

*  author  and  finifher  of.  By  this  faith  every  man  may  fee 
'  God,  who  is  invilible ;   which  faith  gives  the  vi6lory,  and 

*  thereby  he  hath  accefs  to  God.      So  every  one's  faith  and 

*  hope  (landing  in  the  power  of  God,  therein  all  have  uni- 
'  ty,  viftory,  and  accefs  to  God's  throne  of  grace;  in  which 
'  faith  they  pleafe  God.  By  this  faith  they  are  faved,  ob- 
'  tain  the  good  report,  and  fubdjae  all  the  mountains  be- 

*  twixt  them  and  God. 

'  This  power  hath  preferved  friends  over  their  perfecu- 

*  tors,  over  the  wrath  of  men,   above  the  fpoiling  of  their 

*  goods,  and  imprifonments ;  as  feeing  God,  that  "  created 
'•  all,  gives  the  increafe  of  all,  and  upholds  all  by  his  word 
"  and  power."     Therefore  let  every  one's  faith  be  in  his 

*  power.     In  this  no  fchifm  nor  fe6l  can  come,  for  it  is  over 

*  them,  before  they  were,  and  will  be  when  they  are  gone. 

*  But  perfcft  unity  is  in  the  truth,  in  the  Spirit,   that  cir- 

*  cumcifeth  the  body  of  death,  puts  oft'  the  fins  of  tlie  flefh, 
'  and  plunges  it  down  with  ths  Spirit.      In  the  Spirit  of 

*  God  there  is  perfect  fellowfhip;  and  Chrift  is  the  minifter 
'  of  this  circumcifion  and  baptifm. 

CCS 


204  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1676 

'  This  is  upon  me   from   the  Lord  to  write  unto  you, 

*  that  every  one  of  you,  whofe  faith  jefus  is  the  author  of, 

*  may  (land  in  the  power  of  God.      From  the  Lord  I  warn 

*  you,  and  all  every  where  of  the  fame ;  for  if  a  ftar  fliould 

*  fall,  which  has  been  a  light,  either  the  earth  or  the  fea 
'  does  receive  it :   that  is,  the  earthly  mind,  or  the  foaming, 

*  raging  people  :  though  neither  the  feed,  light,  power,  nor 
'  truth  ever  fell,  nor  the  faith  itfelf,  the  gift  of  God  ;  but 
'  men  going  from  it,  become  uniavoury. 

•  Adam,  whilU  he  kept  in  truth,  and  obeyed  the  com- 
'  mand  of  God,  was  happy;  but  when  he  difobeyed  the 
'  Lord,  he  fell  under  the  power  of  Satan,  and  became  un- 
'  happy,  though  he  might  talk  after  of  his  experiences  in  pa- 

*  radife  ;  but  he  had  lolt  his  image,  and  his  power  and  do- 
'  minion,  that  God  created  him  in. 

'  The  Jews,  after  they  received  the  law,  as  long  as  they 
^  kept  the  law  of  God,  which  was  jull,  holy,  good,  and  per.. 
'  \cti,  it  kept  them  good,  juft,  holy,  and  favoury  ;  but  when 

*  they  turned  their  backs  on  the  Lord,  and  forfook  his  law, 
'  they  came  under  the  power  of  darkneis,  under  the  powers 

*  of  the  earth,  and  were  trodden  under  as  unfavoury. 

'  The  Chriftians  were  called  a  "  city  fet  on  a  hill, 
*'  the  light  of  the  world,  and  the  fait  of  the  earth  ;"  but 
'  when  they  forfook  the  power  of  God,  and  their  faith  flood 
'  in  words  and  men,  and  not  in  the  power;  then  their  walls 

*  fell  down,  though  the  power  in  itft^lf  flood;  and  they  loft 
'  their  hill,  their  faltnefs,  and  their  fhining,      And  as  Chrif-, 

*  tendom  now  confefTeth,  they  are  not  in  the  fame  power  and 
'  fpiritthe  apoPiles  were  in,  fo  not  in  the  fame  fait,  nor  up- 
'  on  the  fame  hill.  So  they  came  to  be  trod  under,  and  the 
'  beafl,  the  whore,  and  the  faife  prophet  are  uppermofl,  the 
'  unfavoury.     Their  dead  faith  is  in   men,  and  in  words; 

*  therefore  they  are  full  of  fecls,  and  one  againfl  another. 

'  And  now  the  everlalling  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  is 

*  preached  again,  which  was  before  the  devil  was,  that  dar- 
'  kened  man  ;  and  by  this  power  of  God  life  and  imm.ortali- 
'  ty  is  come  to  light  again  ;  therefore  every  one's  faith  is  to 
'  iland  in  this  power  that  hath  brought  life  and  immortality 

*  to  h'ght  in  them,  and  fo  to  be  heirs  of  the  power  of  God, 
■  the  golp:-l.      Herein  ail  have  a  right  to  the  power  of  God, 

*  which  is  the  authority  of  men's  and  v/omen's  meetings, 
'-  ;md  of  all  ether  meetings  fet  up  thereby. 

'  As  the  gofpel  is  preached  again,  if  your  fiiith  doth  not 
^  f;and  in  the  power    but  in  men,  aiul  in  the  wifdom  of 


1676]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL. 


205 


'  words,  3'ou  will  grow  carnal  ;  and  fuch  are  for  judgment, 
'  who  cry  up  Paul  or  Apoilos,  and  not  Chrift,  the  author 

*  of  your  faith.      Thofe  that  love  to  be  popular  would  have 

*  people's  faith  (land  in  them  ;  fuch  do  not  preach    Chrill, 

*  but  themfeives.     But  fuch  as  preach  Chrift  and  his  gofpel 

*  would  have  every  man  and  woman  to  be  in  the  polleilion 
^  ol  it,  and  every  rr^an  and  woman's  faith  to  Hand  in  Chrift, 
^  the  author  of  it,  and  in  the  power  of  God,  in  which,  as 
'  their  taith  ftands,  nothing  can  get  betwixt  them  and  God; 
^  for  if  any  flioald  fall  amongfl  us,  as  too  many  have  done, 
'  that  leads  its  followers  either  into  the  waters  or  into  the 
'  earth. 

'  If  any  fliould  go  from  the  fpirit  of  prophecy,  that  did 
'  open  them,  and  from  the  power,  they  may  fpeak  thofe  ex- 

*  periences  the  power  opened  to  them  formerly.  So  might 
'  Adam  and  Eve  fpeak  of  what  they  faw  and  enjoyed  in  pa- 

*  radife  ;  fo  might  Cain  and  Balaam,  of  what  they  faw  ;  and 

*  alfo  the  Jews,   Corah,  and  Dathan,  who  praiied  God  on 

*  the  banks,  faw  the  vi6fory  over  Pharaoh,  ate  of  the  man- 
^  na,  drank  of  the  rock,  came  to  mount  Sinai,  and  faw  the 
^  glory  of  the  Lord.  So  might  the  falfe  apoftles  fpeak  of 
^  their  experiences,  and  all  thofe  fajfe  Chriftians  that  turned 
'  from  the  apoftles  and  Chrift.      So  may  fuch  do  now,  that 

*  err  from  the  Spirit,  that  are  come  out  of  fpiritual  Egypt  and 
'  Sodom,  and  have  known  the  raging  of  the  Sodomites,  as 

*  Lot  did  the   outward;  and   the   purfuit   of  the  fpiritual 

*  Egyptians,  as  the  outward  Jew  did  the  outward  Egypti- 
^  ans ;  yet  if  they  do  not  walk  in  the  Spirit  of  God,  in  the 
'  light,  and  in  the  grace,   which  keeps  their  hearts  eftablifti- 

*  ed,  their  words  feafoned,  and  their  faith  in  the  power  of 
'■  God,  in  which  the  kingdom  ftands,  they  may  go  forth 
'  like  the  falfe  Chriftians,  like  the  Jews,  like  Adam  and 
'  Eve,  Cain,  Corah,  and  Balaam,  and  be  wandering  ftars, 
^  frees  without  fruit,  wells  without  water,  and  clouds  with- 

*  out  rain  ;  and  fo  come  to  be  nrifavoury,  trodden  down, 
'■  and  as  Adam  v.'ho  loft  paradife,  and  the  Jews  who  loft 
'  the  Koly  Land,  not  walking  in  the  law,  and  keeping  the 
^  command  of  God  ;  and  as  the  Chriftians  who  loft  the  ci- 
'-  ty,  the  hill,  the  fait,  and  the  light,  fincc  the  apoftles  days, 

*  and  came  to  be  unfavoury,  and  to  be  trodden  under  foot 
'  ot  men. 

'  Therefore  let  every  one's  f^iith  ftand  in  the  Lord's  pow- 
^  er,  which  is  over  all,  through  which  they  may  be  built  up- 
^  on  the  rock,  the  foundation  of  God,  the  feed  Tefus  Chrift, 


2o6  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1675 

*  So  all  in  Chrift  may  be  ever  frefh  and  green  ;  for  he  is  the 
'  green  tree  that  never  withers,  all  are  frefh  and  green  that 

*  are  grafted  in  him,  abide  in  him,  and  bring  forth  heavenly 
'  frefh  fruits  to  the  praife  of  God.  And  tho'  Adam  and 
'  Eve  fell  from  paradife,  the  Jews  fell  from  the  law  of  God, 
'  many  of  the   Chriftians   fell  from  their  prophecies,    erred 

*  from  the  faith,  the  Spirit,  and  the  grace  ;  and  the  ftars 
'  have  fallen,  as  was  fpoken  in  the  Revelations;  yet  the  Spi- 
'  rit,  grace,  faith,  and  power  of  God  remains. 

'  Many  fuch  ftates  have  I  feen  within  thefe  twenty-eight 

*  years ;  though  there  is  a  ftate  that  fhall  never  fall,  nor  be 

*  deceived,  in  the  EleQ;  before  the  world  began,  who  are 

*  come  to  the  end  of  the  prophecies,  and  are  in  him,  where 

*  they  end,  renewed  up  into  the  image  of  God  (by  Chrift) 

*  which  man  was  in  before  he  fell ;  in  that  power,  where  he 

*  had  dominion  over  all  that  God  made  ;  and  not  only  fo, 

*  but  "  attain  to  a  perfe6t  man,  unto  themeafure  of  the  fta- 
*'  ture  of  the  fulnefs  of  Chrift,"  who  never  fell.     In  him  is 

*  the  fitting  down  in  life  eternal,  where  their  feet  ftand  fure 
'  and  faft  in  the  gofpel,  his  power.     Here  their  bread  is 

*  fure;  and  he  that  eats  this  bread  lives  for  ever. 

*  And  all  friends  and  brethren,  that  declare  God's  eternal 

*  truth  and  word  of  life,  live  in  it,  be  feafoned  with  grace, 

*  and  faked  with  the  heavenly  fait,  that  your  lives  and  con- 

*  verfations  may  preach  wherever  you  come  ;  that  there  be 

*  no  rawncfs,  nor  no  quenching  of  the  Spirit,  nor  defpifing 
'  prophecy  either  in  men  or  women.      For  all  muft  meet  in 

*  the   faith  that  Jefus  is  the  author  of,  and  in  the  light  that 

*  comes  hom  him,  and  be  fo  grafted  into  the  life,  that  your 

*  knowledge  may  be  there  one  of  another  in  Chrift,  and  that 

*  there  may  be  none  flothful,  nor  fitting   down   in   earthly 

*  things,  minding  them,  like  Demas  of  old,  left  you  clothe 
'  yourfelves  with  another  clothing  than  you  had  at  firft; 
'  but  all  keep  chafte,  for  the  chafte  follow  the  Lamb. 

'  And  friends  that  are  minifters,  poftefs  as  if  ye  did  not ; 

*  be  married  as  if  ye  were  not ;  be  loofe  to  the  world  in  the 

*  Lord's  pov/er;  for  God's  oil  will  be  atop  of  all  vifible 
'  things,  which  makes  his  lamps  burn,  and  give  light   afar 

*  off.  Let  none  ftiive  nor  covet  to  be  rich  in  this  world,  in 
'  thcfc  changeable  things   that  will  pafs  away ;  but  let  your 

*  faith  ftand  in  the  Lord  God,  who  changes  not,  created  all, 
'  and  gives  the  increafe  of  all, 

'  Now  friends,    concerning    faithful    men  and    women's 

*  mceiings,  which  v.'crc  fet  up  in  God's  counfel,  whoevev 


1676]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL,  207- 

*  oppofe  them,  oppofe  the  power  of  God,  which  is  the  au- 

*  thority  of  them.      They  are  no  minifters  of  the  gofpel,  nor 

*  of  Chrift,  that  oppofe  his  power,  which  all  are  to  poiTefs. 

*  For  the  true  minifters  of  Chrift,    that  preach  his  gofpel 

*  (which  is  to  be  preached  to  all  nations)  as  deceit  is  gone 

*  over  all  nations,  and  all  nations  have  drunk  the  whore's 

*  cup,  and  ftie  hath  them  in  her  cage,  her  unclean  power 
'  from  the  beaft  and  dragon,  out  of  the  power  of  God,  and 
'  out  of  truth  and  the  Spirit  of  God,  the  apoftles  were  in  ; 
'  the  power  of  God  muft  come  over  all  this  again;  and  all 

*  true  mmifters.  that  preach  the  gofpel,  muft  bhng  people 
'  into  the  polleffion  of  it  again.  I  fay,  whofoever  preaches 
<  the  gofpel  of  Chrift  and  him  to  people  and  nations,  thofe 
'  people  and  nations  receiving  the  gofpel,  they  receive  the 
'  power  of  God,  that  brings  life  and  immortality  to  light  in 
'  them  ;  and  they  fee  over  the  devil  that  hath  darkened  them, 

*  and  the  beaft,  the  whore,  and  her  cage.      So  by  the  pow- 

*  er   of  God,  life   and   immortality  is  brought  to  light   in 

*  them  ;  then  thefe  men  and  women,  being  heirs  of  this  pow- 

*  er,  the  gofpel,  are  heirs  of  authority  and  power  over  the 

*  devil,  beaft,  whore,  and  dragon. 

'  It  is  their  pofleffion  and  portion,  and  they  are  to  labour 
'  in   their  pofleffion  and  portion,   to   do   God  Almighty's 

*  bufmefs  and  fervice  in  the  pofleffion  of  the  pov.-er  of  God, 

*  the  gofpel,  which  is  a  joyful,  glorious,   everlafting  order. 

*  Here  is  the  authority  of  our  men's  and  women's  meetings, 

*  and  other  meetings  in  the  name  of  Jefus,   the   gofpel  of 

*  Chrifl;,  the  power  of  God,  which  is  not  of  man,  nor  by 

*  man.      In  this  are  all  to  meet,  and  to  worftiip  God.     By 

*  this  are  all  to  a6l,  and  in  this  have  all  fellowlhip,  a  joyful 
'  fellowffiip,  a  joyful  and  comfortable  aflembly.      All  faith- 

*  ful  men  and  women  in  every  country,  city,  and  nation, 

*  whofe  faith   flands  in  the  power  of  God,  the  gofpel   of 

*  Chrift,  who  have  received  the  gofpel,  and  are  in  the  pof- 

*  feflion  thereof,  have  all  right  to  the  power  in  thefe  meet- 

*  ings,  for  they  are  heirs  of  the  power,  which  is  the  authori- 

*  ty  of  the  men's  and  women's  meetings. 

'  So  here  is  God's  choice  (and  not  man's)  by  his  power, 
'  of  his  heirs  ;  and  they  have  all  freedom  therein  to  go  to  the 
'  meetings,   the  men  to  the  men's,   and  the  women  to  the 

*  women's,  for  they  are  heirs  of  the  power,  which  is  receiv- 

*  ed  in  the  Holy  Ghoft ;  and  they  fee  over  enmity,  and  be- 

*  fore  it  was,  by  the  light,  the  life,  and  iir.niortality,  which 

*  is  brought  to  liiiht  in  them. 


io8  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1676 

'  The  devil,  the  author  of  enmity,  cannot  get  into  this 
'  authority,  power,  order,  nor  fellowfhip  of  the  gofpel,  nor 
^life,  nor  Hght,  nor  into  the  unity  of  the  faith,  which  gives 
'  victory  over  him  that  hath  feparated  man  from  God.  In- 
'  to  the  unity  of  this  faith  the  ferpent  cannot  come,  nor  into 

*  the  worfhip  of  God  in  fpirit  and  truth  the  devil  cannot 
'  come,  nor  any  enmity.  And  they  that  are  in  this,  are  in 
'unity  over  him.  Therefore,  let  every  one's  faith  fland  in 
'  the  power  of  God,  the  glorious  gofpel;  all  walk  as  be- 
'  comes  the  gofpel  and  the  order  of  it.  As  every  one  hath 
'  received  Chrift  Jefus,  the  Lord,  fo  walk  in  him,  and  let 
'  him  be  their  Lord  and  orderer.  For  the  preaching  of  the 
'  gofpel  of  Chrifl  Jefus  is  to  the  intent  that  all  m.ight  come 

*  to  be  heirs  of  the  gofpel,  into  the  poireffion  of  it,  to  be 
'  heirs  of  Chrift  and  ot  his  government,  to  the  increafe  of 
'  which  there  is  no  end ;  who  is   over  all  in  his  righteoui- 

*  nd^s,  and  over  all  in  his  light,  life,  power,  and  dominion. 

*  Therefore  know  one  another  in  his  power,  his  gofpel ; 
'  know  one  another  in  Chrift  Jefus,   who  is  able  to  reftore 

*  man  out  of  the  ftate  of  the  fall  into  the  image  of  God, 
'  and  into  that  power  and  dominion  that  man  had  before  he 

*  fell,  and  into  himfelf,  that  never  fell,  whence  they  fhall 
'  go  no  more  forth.      Here   is  the  rock  and  foundation  of 

*  God  that  ftands  lure. 

'  And,  friends,  be  tender  to  the  tender  principle  of  God 

*  in  all.      Shun  the  occahon  of  vain  difputes  and  janglings, 

*  both  amongft  yourlelvcs  and  others ;  for  that  many  times 
'  is  like  a  bluftering  wind,  that  hurts  and  bruifes  the  tender 
'  buds  and  plants.      For  the  world,   though  they   have   the 

*  words,  are  out  of  the  hfe ;  and  the  apoftle's  difputing 
'  with  them  was  to  bring  them  to  the  life.      And  thofe  dif- 

*  puters  among  the  Chriftians  about  genealogies,  circum- 
'  cifion,  the  law,  meats,  drinks,  and  days,  came  to  be  the 
'  worft  fort  of  difputers,  whom  the  apoftles  judged  ;  for 
'  fuch  deftroyed  people  from  the  faith.  Therefore  did  the 
'  apoftles  exhort  the  churches,  that  every  one's  faith  fhould 
'  Hand  in  the  power  of  God,  and  to  look  at  Jefus  the  author 

*  of  it.      There  every  graft  Hands  in  Chrift,  the  vine,  quiet, 

*  where  no  bluftering  ftorms  can  hurt  them ;  there  is  the 
'  fafety.     There  all  are  of  one  mind,  one  faith,  one  foul,  one 

*  fpirit,  baptized   into  one  body  with  the   one   fpirit,    and 

*  made  all  to  drink  into  one   fpirit,  one  church,   one  head, 

*  that  is  heavenly  and  fpiritual  ;   and  one  faith  in  this  head, 

*  Chrift,  who  is  the  author  of  it,  and  hath  the  glory  of  it; 


1676]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  209 

*  one  Lord  to  order  all,  who  is  the  baptizer  into  this  one 

*  body.     So  Chrift  hath  the  glory  of  his  faith  out  of  every 

*  man  and  woman ;  and  the  Father  through  him  hath  his 
'  glory,  the  Creator  of  all  in  his  power,  the  gofpel  that  hath 
^  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light  in  them ;  and  their 

*  faith  ftanding  in  it,  they  know  the  immortal  God,  ferve 

*  and  worfhip  him  in  his  Ipirit  and  in  his  truth ;  by  which 

*  they  are  made  God's  free  men  and  women,  from  him  that 
'  is  out  of  the  truth. 

'  Now,  friends,  you  that  have   been   ancient  labourers, 

*  and  have  known  the  dealings  of  the  Lord  thefe  twenty 
'  years  (more  or  lefs)  as  I  have  often  faid  to  you,  draw  up 

*  what  you  can  of  that  which  the  Lord  hath  carried  you 
'  through  by  his  power,  the  paffages  and  fufFerings,  and  how 

*  by  the  Lord  ye  have  been   fupported  from  the  firft  ;  fo 

*  that  he  may  he  exalted  by  his  power  now,  and  in  ages  to 

*  come,  who  hath  been  the  only  fupport,  defence,  and  flay 

*  of  his  people  all  along,  over  all  to  himfelf ;  to  whom  be 
«  all  glory  and  praife  for   ever  and  ever.      Amen.      He  de- 

*  ferves  it  in  his  church  throughout  all  ages,  from  his  living 

*  members,  who  return  the  praife  to  the  living   God,  who 

*  lives  and  reigns  over  all,  bleffed  for  ever ;  who  is  the  life, 

*  ftrength,  health,  and   length  of  the  days   of  his  people. 

*  Therefore  let  there  be  no  boafting,  but  in  the  Lord,  in  his 

*  power  and  kingdom  ;  that  keeps  all  in  humihty. 

'  And  friends,  in  the  Lord's  power  and  truth,  what  good 
'  you  can  do  for  friends  in  prifon,  or  fufFerers,  by  informing 
'  or  helping  them,  every  one  bend  yourfelves  to  the  Lord's 
'  power  and  fpirit,  to  do  his  will  and  his  bufmefs  ;  and  in 

*  that  all  will  have  a  fellow-feeling  of  one  another's  condi- 

*  tions   in  bonds,  or  in  what  trials  or  tribulations  foever ; 

*  you  will  have  a  fellow-feeling  one  of  another,  having  one 

*  head,  one  Lord,  and  being  one  body  in  him.  For  Gods 
'  heavenly   flail    hath   brought  out  his   feed,  his  heavenly 

*  plough  hath  turned  up  the  fallow  ground,  his  heavenly 
'  feed  is  fown  by  the  heavenly  man,  which  brings  forth 
'  fruits  to  the  heavenly  fower,  in  fome  fifty,  fixty,  and  an 
'  hundred  fold  in  his  life-time  ;  and  fuch  in  the  world  with- 

*  out  end  will  have  life  everlafting.     Oh  !  therefore  all  keep 

*  within  ;  let  your  lights  fhine,  and  your  lamps  burn,  that 

*  you  may  be  wells  full  of  the  living  water,  and  trees  full  of 
'  the  living  fruit  of  God's  planting,  whofe  fruit  is  unto  ho- 

*  linefs,  and  end  is  everlafting  life. 

*  The  Lord  God  of  power  preferve  you  all  in  his  power. 
Vol.  n.  D  D 


2ra  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [167& 

*  Let  your  faith  ftand  therein,  that  you  may  have  unity  in 

*  the  faith,  and  in  the  power  ;  and  by  this  faith  and  belief 
'  you  may  be  all  grafted  into  Chrift,  the  fure  root  and  rock 

*  of  ages,  where  the  eternal  Sun  of  righteoufnefs  fliines,  in 
^  the  heavenly  and  eternal  day,  upon  his  plants  and  grafts. 

*  This  Sun  never  goes  down,  and  the  heavenly  fprings  of 
'  life,  and  fhowers  are  known  to  water  and  nourilh  the  grafts, 

*  plants,  and  buds,  that  they  may  always  be  kept  frefli  and 

*  green,  and  never  wither ;  bringing  forth  frelh,  green,  and 
'  living  fruit,  which  is  oflFered  up  to  the  living  God ;  who  is 
'  glorified,  in  that  you  bear  much  fruit.  The  Lord  God 
'  Almighty  keep  you,  and  preferve  you  all  in  his  power, 
'  light,  and  life,  over  death  and  darknefs ;  that  therein  you 
'  may  fpread  his  truth  abroad,  and  be  valiant  for  it  upon 
'  the  earth,  anfwering  that  of  God  in  all ;  that  with  it  the 
'  minds  of  people  may  be  turned  to  God,   fo  that  with  it 

*  they  may  come  to  know  Chrift  Jefus  in  the  new  cove- 
'  nant,  in  which  the  knowledge  of  the  Lord  fhall  cover  the 

*  earth,  as  the  waters  do  the  fea.  His  life  muft  go  over 
'  death,  his  light  muft  go  over  darknefs,  and  the  power  of 
'  God  muft  go  over  the  power  of  Satan. 

'  So  ail  you  that  are  in  the  light,  life,  and  power,  keep 
'  the  heavenly  fellowfhip  in  the  heavenly  power,  the  hea- 

*  venly  unity  in  the  heavenly  divine  faith,  and  the  unity  of 
'  the  fpirit,  which  is  the  bond  of  the  heavenly  Prince  of 

*  Princes  peace ;  who  bruifes  the  head  of  the  enemy,  the 

*  adverfary,  and  reconciles  man  to  God,  and  all  things  in 
'  heaven  and  earth.     A  blefled  reconciliation  !     Let  every 

*  one's  faith  ftand  in  the  power  of  God,  which  Jefus  Chrift 
'  is  the  author  of;  that  all  may  know  their  crown  of  life. 
'  For  all  outward  things,  without  the  fubftance,  the  life, 
'  the  power,  are  as  the  hufk  without  the  kernel,  and  do  not 
'  nourifh  the  immortal  foul,  nor  the  new-born  Babe ;   but 

*  that  which  it  is  nouriftied  by,  is  the  milk  of  the  word, 
'  whereby   it   groweth   in   the   heavenly  life,    ftrength,  and 

*  wifdom.      The  gofpel  is   not  of  man,  nor  by   man,  but 

*  is   the  power  of  God,  and  anfwers  the  truth  in  all :    all 

*  the  poffeirors  of  it  are  to  fee  that  all  walk  according  to  it ; 
'  which  everlafting  order  is  ordained  of  God  already,  and 
'  all  the  poffeifors  of  him  poOefs  their  joy,  their  comfort,  and 

*  falvation.      My  love  unto  you  all,  with  him  that  reigns, 

*  and  is  over  all,  from  everlafting  to  everlafting. 

'  Dwell  in  the  love  of  God,  which  palfeth  knowledge, 
'  and  cdilicth  the  living  members  of  the  body  of  Chrift; 


1^76]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL,  211 

*  which  love  of  God  you  come  to  be  built  up  in,  and  in 

*  the  holy  faith.     This  love  of  God  brings  you  to  "  bear 
*'  all  things,  endure  all  things,  and  hope  all  things."     From 

*  this  love,  which  you  have  in  Chrifl  Jefus,  nothing  will  be 

*  able  to  feparate  you,  neither  powers,   nor  principalities, 

*  heights  nor  depths,    things   prefent   nor  things  to  come, 

*  prifons  nor  fpoiling  of  goods,  death  nor  life.     The  love 

*  of  God  keeps  above  all  that  which  would  feparate  from 

*  God,  and  makes  you  more  than  conquerors  in  Chrifl  Je- 

*  fus.     Therefore  in  this  dwell,  that  with  the  fame  love  you 

*  may  love  one  another,  and  all  the  workmanfiiip  of  God ; 

*  that  you  may  glorify  God  with  your  bodies,   fouls,  and 

*  fpirits,  which  are  the  Lord's.     Amen.  & 

*  G.  F.- 

*  All  friends  fit  low  in  the  life,  the  Lord's  power.     Keep 

'  your  place  in  it,  till  the  Lord  and  Mailer  of  the  hea- 

*  venly  feafl  bid  you  "  fit  higher ;"  left  you  take  the 

*  highett  place,  and  be  put  down  with  lliam.e.      He 
'  that  hath  an  ear,  let  him  hear. 

'  G.  F.' 

'POSTSCRIPT. 

*  Friends,  take  heed  of  fpeaking  the  things  of  God  in  the 

*  words   that  men's  wifdom  hath  taught ;  for  thofe  words 

*  will  lift  up  the  foolifh,   that  err  from  the  Spirit  of  God ; 

*  which  words  and  wifdom  are  for  condemnation,  and  that 

*  which  is  lifted  up  by  them,  and  they  that  thereby  fpeak 

*  the  things  of  God  in  them.     So  that  old  houfe,  with  its 

*  goods,  muft  be  thrown  under  the  foot  of  the  new  birth. 

*  And,  friends,   I  defire  that  you  may  all  keep  the  holy 

*  order,  which  is  in  the  gofpel,   the  glorious  order  in  the 

*  power  of  God,  which  the  devil  is  out  of;   which  was  be- 

*  fore  all  his  orders  were,  and  before  the  world  made  any. 

*  This  joyful  order  keeps  all  hearts  pure  to  God,  in  ever- 

*  lafting  peace,  unity,  and  order ;  feel  it,  and  keep  it,  both 

*  men  and  women,   and  come  to  be  heirs  of  the  gofpel, 

*  which  brings  life  and  immortality  to  light,  and  to  fee  over. 
'  that  power  of  darknefs,  by  him  who  was  before  the  power 

*  of  death  was.     In  this  is  the  holy  order  in  love  and  peace. 
'  So  keep  in  this,  that  keeps  you  always  pure ;   what  men 

*  and  women  a6t  in  this,  they  a6l  in  that  whicli  will  ftand 

*  when  the  world  is  gone. 


213  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1676 

'  There  hath  been  fome  fcruple  about  men's  and  women's 

*  meetings :   men  and  women  in  the  gofpel  are  heirs  of  the 

*  power,  which  was  before  the  devil  was ;  heirs  of  this,  then 
'  enter  into  the  pofleffion  of  it,  and  do  the  Lord's  bufinefs 
'  therein.  Every  one  take  care  of  God's  honour,  and  keep 
'  all  things  in  righteoufnefs  and  holinefs,   which  becomes 

*  God's  houfe.     In  that,  which  honours  the  Lord  God,  it 

*  eafed  me,  when  thofe  meetings  were  fet  up  for  men  and 

*  women,  who  are  heirs  of  the  gofpel,  and   have  right  to 

*  the  gofpel  order.      Then  take  your  poffeffions,  pra6life  in 

*  it,  be  not  talkers  only,  but  live  and  walk  in  the  gofpel, 
'  the  power  of  God,  which  is  the  authority  of  your  meet^ 
'  ings, 

'  G.  F.' 
'  Swarthmore,  the  28th  of  the 
'  2d  month,  1676.' 

Read  at  the  yearly  meeting  in  London,  the   17th  of  the 
third  month,  1676. 

During  this  time,  I  colle6led  together  as  many  as  I  could 
of  the  epiftles  I  had  wrote  in  former  years  to  friends.  I 
made  a  colleftion  too  of  the  feveral  papers  I  had  wrote  to 
Oliver  Cromwel  and  his  fon  Richard,  in  the  time  of  their 
proteclorfhips,  and  to  the  parliaments  and  magiftrates,  in 
their  times.  I  collected  alfo  the  papers  I  had  wrote  to 
king  Charles  the  Second  fmce  his  return,  and  to  his  council 
and  parliaments,  and  the  juftices  or  other  magiftrates  under 
him.  I  made  another  col ledtion  of  certificates,  which  I  had 
receiv'ed  from  divers  governors  of  places,  judges,  juftices, 
parliament-men,  and  others,  for  the  clearing  of  me  from 
jnany  flanders,  which  the  envious  priefts  and  profeiTors, 
both  here  and  beyond  fea,  had  caft  upon  me.  This  I  did 
for  the  truth's  fake,  knowing  that  their  defign  in  flandering 
me  was  to  defame  the  truth  pubiifhed  by  me,  and  hinder  the 
fp reading  thereof  amongft  the  people.  Befides  thefe,  I 
made  two  books  of  coUedions ;  one  was,  a  lift  or  cata- 
logue of  the  names  of  thofe  friends  who  went  out  of  the 
north  of  England,  when  truth  firft  broke  forth  there,  to 
proclaim  the  day  of  the  Lord  through  this  nation.  The 
other  was  of  the  names  of  thofe  friends  that  went  firft  to 
preach  the  gofpel  in  other  nations,  countries,  and  places,,  in 
what  years,  an^i  to  what  parts  they  went. 

I   made  aiiolhcr  collettion,  in  two  books ;  viz.  one  of 


1676]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  213 

epiftles  and  letters  from  friends  and  others,  on  feveral  occa- 
lions,  to  me ;  the  other  of  letters  of  mine  to  friends  and 
others. 

I  wrote  alfo  a  book  of  the  types  and  figures  of  Chrift, 
with  their  fignifications  ;  and  many  other  things,  which 
will  be  of  fervice  to  truth  and  friends  in  time  to  come. 

I  took  notice  alfo  of  thole  who  had  run  out  from  truth, 
drawn  others  out  after  them,  and  turned  againft  truth  and 
friends,  lince  the  firft  breaking  forth  of  truth  in  this  latter 
age,  and  what  became  of  them  ;  noting  particularly  the  re- 
pentance and  return  of  fuch  of  them  as  came  back  to  truth 
again.  Some  ran  quite  out,  and  never  returned,  but  were 
cut  ofiF  in  their  gainfaying  and  rebellion ;  for  the  word  and 
power  of  God  hath  blafled,  and  is  blading  them,  and  the 
holy  feed  hath  ground,  and  is  grinding  them  to  pieces.  I 
have  obferved  that  they,  who  have  been  convinced,  and 
have  not  lived  and  walked  in  the  truth,  have  been  the  worft 
enemies  to  the  truth,  and  done  mofl  hurt  amongft  friends 
in  the  truth,  and  to  others.  In  thefe  I  have  feen  fulfilled 
what  the  Lord  did  long  lince  fhew  me,  '   That  fuch  would 

*  be  greater  deceivers  than  all  the  priefls  and  profelTorsr.' 
For  fuch  as  came  as  far  as  Cain.  Balaam,  Corah,  and  Da- 
than,    who  could    '  preach    Chrift,'   and  fay,   '   They  had 

*  preached  in  his  name;'  fuch  as  came  to  be  apollles,  and 
had  tafted  of  the  power  of  Chrift,  and  then  turned  from  it, 
fuch  could  yet  fpeak  their  old  experiences,  and  have  good 
words  like  Corah  and  Balaiim ;  but  not  keeping  in  the  life 
and  truth,  they  deceived  the  hearts  of  the  fimple.  Such 
come  to  be  of  the  devil,  who  abode  not  in  the  truth  ;  as 
Cain  and  all  the  Jews  that  abode  not  in  the  truth  were.  For 
though  Cain  did  facrifice  to  God,  and  did  talk  with  God, 
and  the  Jews  could  talk  of  Abraham,  Mofes,  and  the  pro- 
phets, yet  Chrift  told  them,  '  They  were  of  their  father  the 
'  devil.'  In  like  manner,  though  thofe  called  Chnftians 
can  talk  of  Chrift,  and  ufe  his  and  his  apoftles  and  dirdples 
words,  yet  not  abiding  in  the  truth,  power,  and  fpirit  the 
apoftles  were  in,  they  are  of  the  devil,  out  of  truth,  an  J  do 
his  work.  So  are  all  thofe  that  have  been  cowvinced  of 
pod's  eternal  truth  fmce  it  fprang  up  in  this  nation,  that 
have  not  abode  in  the  light,  in  the  fpuit  and  power  of  Chrifl 
Jefus,  but  have  turned  againft  the  power,  and  have  oppoi- 
cd  the  work  thereof;  though  they  may  retain  their  lorn}cr 
experiences,  and  be  able  to  fpeak  many  good  v/ords,  yet  not 
living  in  die  life  and  power  that  gave  them  thole  experien- 


214  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1676 

ces,  they  live  in  the  power  of  darknefs,  which  is  of  the  de- 
vil ;  and  by  the  light  and  truth  both  he  and  they  are  con- 
demned, and  muft  own  their  condemnation,  if  ever  they 
come  to  truth  again.  For  to  refill  the  heavenly  power, 
and  to  oppofe  the  workings  and  divine  manifeftations  there- 
of through  any,  is  not  a  light  matter.  And  as  I  had  been 
moved  of  the  Lord  to  travel  in  his  power  round  this  nation, 
and  in  other  parts,  to  preach  the  everlafting  gofpel,  and  to 
declare  the  word  of  life,  which  was  in  the  beginning,  through 
many  imprifonments,  hardfhips,  fufFerings,  and  trials  :  lb 
I  was  afterwards  moved  to  travel  in  the  fame  heavenly 
power  about  the  nation  again  (and  to  write  to  fuch  places 
where  I  came  not)  to  recommend  unto  friends  the  '  fetting 

*  up  of  the  quarterly  and  monthly  meetings  in  all  counties, 

*  for  looking  after  the  poor,  taking  care  for  orderly  proceed- 
'  ings  in  marriages,  and  other  matters  relating  to  the  church 

*  of  Chrift.'     Though  fome  meetings  for  this  end  were  fet- 

*  tied  in  the  north  of  England  in  the  year  1652. 

After  this  alfo,  truth  ftill  fpreading  further  over  the  nation, 
and  friends  increafmg  in  number,  I  was  moved  by  the  fame 
eternal  power  to  recommend  the  fetting  up  women's  meet- 
ings alfo,  that  all,  both  male  and  female,  who  had  receiv- 
ed the  gofpel,  the  word  of  eternal  life,  might  come  iiato  the 
order  of  the  gofpel,  brought  forth  by  the  power  of  God, 
and  might  aft  for  God  in  the  power,  and  therein  do  bufi- 
nefs  and  fei-vice  for  him  in  his  church.  All  the  faithful 
muft  labour  in  God's  vineyard;  they  being  his  hired  fer- 
vants,  he  having  given  them  the  earneft  of  his  Spirit.  For 
a  mafter  that  hires  a  fervant,  and  gives  him  the  earneft  of 
his  hire,  expects  he  Ihould  do  his  work  after  he  knows  his 
will,  in  the  outward  creation  ;  fo  all  God's  people  that  are 
of  the  new  creation,  and  have  received  the  earneft  of  his  Spi- 
rit, ought  to  labour  with,  by,  and  in  his  Spirit,  power, 
grace,  and  faith,  in  the  light,  in  God's  vineyard,  that  they^ 
may  have  their  wages  when  they  have  done  God's  work 
and  bufinefs  in  his  day,  which  is  eternal  life.  But  none 
can  labour  in  his  vineyard,  and  do  his  work  and  will,  but 
as  they  walk  in  the  heavenly  divine  light,  grace,  and  Spirit 
of  Chrift  ;  which  hath  been,  and  is  my  travail  and  labour  in 
the  Lord  to  turn  all  to. 

Some  that  profeiTcd  truth,  and  had  made  a  great  ftiew 
thereof,  being  gone  from  the  fimplicity  of  the  gofpel  into 
janglin:^,  divifion,  and  a  fpirit  of  feparation,  endeavoured  to 
difcourage  friends  (efpecially  the  women)  from  their  godly 


1676]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  215 

care  and  watchfulnefs  in  the  church  over  one  another  in  the 
truth  ;  oppofing  their  meetings,  which  in  the  power  of  the 
Lord  were  fet  up  for  that  end  and  fervice.  Wherefore  I  was 
moved  of  the  Lord  to  write  the  following  epiftle,  and  fend  it 
among  friends,  for  the  difcovering  of  that  fpirit  by  which 
thofe  oppofers  were  a6led,  its  work  and  way  by  which  it 
wrought,  and  to  warn  friends  of  it,  that  they  might  not  be 
betrayed  by  it. 

'  All  my  dear  friends, 

*  T     IVE  in  the  feed  of  peace,   Chrifl  Jefus,  in  whom  ye 

*  JL-J  have  life.      That  fpirit,  which  comes  amongfl  you  to 

*  raife  up  ftrife,  is  out  of  Chrifl ;  for  it  is  the  fpirit   that  is 

*  not  eafy  to  be  intreated,  not  gentle,  fo  not  of  the  wifdom 
'of  God,  which  is  juftified  of  her   children.     They  that 

*  follow  that  fpirit  are  none  of  wifdom's  children.  There 
'  is  a  fpirit  that  hath  made  a  feparation,  and  has  been  againft 
'  men's  and  women's  meetings ;  "  yet  has  fet  up  one  of 
*'  their  own,  which  they  have  given  power  to ;  and  that 
"  none  ftiall  fit  amongfl  them  but  whom  they  give  power 
"  to,  but  ftiall  be  looked  upon  as  ufurpers  of  authority." 
'  This  fpirit  and  its  work  is  not  of  God,  though  it  has  made 
'  a  jumble  amongft  fome;  and  the  path  it  may  travel  in  is 

*  through  the  earthly  afFe6lions,  amongfl  the  uneftablifhed 

*  or  apoftates.     But   all   that  are  in  the  life,  fpirit.  light, 

*  grace,  truth,  and  power  of  God,  bar  it  out ;   and  fuch  as 

*  fit  under  their  own  vine,  Chrifl  Jefus,  and  are  grafted  into 

*  him,  have  no  need  of  their  exhortation  or  counfel ;  for  the 
'  true  believers  are  entered  into  their  refl.      Therefore  aJl 

*  keep  in  the  gofpel  of  peace,  and  they  that  be  heirs  of  the 

*  kingdom  keep  your  poffefTion  thereof. 

*  Some  of  this  fpirit  have  faid  to  me,  "  They  fee  no  fer- 
"  vice  in  women's  meetings."     My  anfwer  is,  and  hath  been 

*  to  fuch.  If  they  be  blind  and  without  fight,  they  Ihould 

*  not  oppofe  others  ;  for  none  impofe  any  thing  upon  them. 

*  God  never  received  the  blind  for  a  facrificc.  neither  can  his 
'  people.     But  Chrifl  has  enlightened  all  ;  and  to  as  many 

*  as  receive  him,  he  gives  *'  power  to  become  the  Tons  of 
"  God."  Such  as  are  heirs  of  his  power,  and  of  his  gofpel, 
'  which  brings  life  and  immortality  to  light,  can  fee  over  him 

*  that  has  darkened  thole ;  and  all  fuch  keep  the  order  of  the 

*  Gofpel,  the  power  of   God,  and  their  meetings  therein, 

*  which   preferves  them   in   life   and    immortality.      Thefe 

*  foe  the  great  fervice  of  men's  and  women's  meetings,  in 


ii6  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1676 

*  the  order  of  the  gofpel,  the  power  of  God ;  for  they  are 

*  meet-helps  in  this  power,  which  is  the  authority  of  their 
.*  meetings.     I  fay  to  all  you  that  be  againft  men's  and  wo- 

*  men's  meetings,  who  fay,  "  you  fee  no  fervice  for  the  wo- 
*'  men's  meetings,"  and  oppofe  them;  you  are  therein  out 

*  of  the  power  ot  God,  and  his  Spirit  you  live  not  in.  For 
'  God  law  a  fervice  for  the  affemblies  of  the  women  in  the 

*  time  of  the  law,  about  thofe  things  that  appertained  to  his 

*  worfliip  and  fervice,   and  to  the  holy  things  of  his  taber- 

*  nacle ;  and  they  in  his  Spirit  fee  now  their  fervice  in  the 
'  gofpel,  many  things  in  thefe  meetings  being  more  proper 
'  for  the  women  than  the  men  ;  and  they,  in  the  power  and 

*  wifdom  of  God,  may  inform  the  men  of  fuch  things  as  are 

*  not  proper  for  them ;  and  the  men  may  inform  the  women 

*  of  fuch  things  as  are  not  proper  for  them,  as  meet-hclps  to 

*  each  other.     For  in  the  time  of  the  law,  the  women  were  to 

*  offer  as  well  as  the  men  ;  fo  in  the  time  of  the  gofpel  they 
'  are  to  offer  their  fpiritual  facrifices ;  for  they  are  all  called, 

*  both  men  and  women,  a  royal  priefthood,  the  houfehold  of 

*  faith,  the  living  ftones,  that  make  up  the  fpiritual  building, 
'  which  Chrifl  is  the  head  of;  and  are  to  be  encouraged  in 

*  their  labour  in  the  gofpel;  ibr  all  things  that  both  men  and 

*  women  do,  are  to  be  done  in  the  power  of  God.  Such 
'  as  fee  no  fervice  for  thefe  women's  meetings,  or  the  men's, 
'  but  oppofe  them,  and  make  ftrife  among  friends,  are  in 

*  the  fpirit  of  the  world  that  is  againft  and  forbids  our  other 
'  meetmgs,  in  the  fame  fpirit  that  hath  been  and  is  againft 

*  women's  fpeaking  in  meetings,  and  fay,  "  They  muft  be 
"  filent,"  &c.  though  the  fame  apoftle  commands,  "  That 
"  men  fliould  keep  filence  as  well  as  the  women,"  if  there 
'  were  not  an  interpreter.  You  may  fee  the  fpirit  of  the 
'  world  hath  entered  fuch  oppofers,  though  they  come  un- 
'  der  another  colour ;  for  they  would  not  have  us  to  meet 
'  at  all.  Thefe  are  againft  women's  meetings,  and  fome  of 
'  them  againft  men's  alfo,  and  fay,  "  They  fee  no  fervice 
"  for  them ;"  then  they  may  hold  their  tongues,  and  not 

*  opppfe  them  that  do  fee  their  fervice  for  God  in  thef^ 
'  meetings. 

'  Therefore  all  you  that  feel  the  power  of  God,  and  your 

*  iervice  lor  God  in  them,  both  men  and  women,  keep  your 

*  meetings  in  the  power  of  God,  the  au  \oriiy  of  them,  as 
'  they   were   fettled  in  it;  then  ye  will  be  pref^rvcd  both 

*  over  this  fpirit  that  oppofes  them,  and  over  the  fpirit  of 
'  the  world  that  oppofes  your  other  meetings ;  for  it  is  all 


1676]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  217 

*  one  in  the  ground,  and  would  bring  you  into  bondage. 

*  Such  as  are  out  of  the  peaceable  gofpel  oppofe  its  order; 
«  and  out  of  the  faith  that  works  by  love,  out  of  the  wifdom 
«  that  is  gentle,  eafy,  and  peaceable,  &c.  and  out  of  the 

*  kingdom  that  ftands  in  peace  and  joy.  Therefore  keep 
'  over  that  Ipirit  that  fovvs  difcord  or  ditTenfion,  and  v\'ouid 

*  draw  you  from  your  habitation  and  poffi^ffion  in  the  order 
'  of  the  gofpel ;  for  it  is  the  fame  fpirit  that  deceived  Adam 

*  and  Eve,  by  which  they  loft  their  habitation  in  righteouf- 
'  nefs  and  holinefs,  and  their  dominion  ;  fo  that  fpirit  got 

*  over  them,  and  it  would  get  over  you.  One  whi'.e  it  will 
'  tell  you,  "  It  fees  no  fervice  for  your  meetings  ;"  and  ano- 

*  ther  time  oppofe  you.      But  I   fay,   this  is   the  blind  fpirit 

*  which  is  out  of  the  pov/er  of  God,  and  which  the  power 
'  of  God  is  over.     Therefore  keep  in  the  power,    that  ye 

*  may  ftand  for  your  liberty  in  Chrift  Jefus,   males  and  fe- 

*  males,  heirs  of  him,  of  his  gofpel,  and  his  order.  Stand 
'  up  for  your  liberty  in  the  gofpel,   and  in  the  faith,  which 

*  Chnft  Jefus  hath  been  the  author  of;  for  if  ye  lofe  it,  and 

*  let  another  fpirit  get  over  you,  ye  will  not  foon  regain  it. 

*  I  knew    Satan   would   bellir  himfelf  in   his   inftruments, 

*  when  men's  and  women's  meetings  came  to  be  fet  up  in 

*  the   power,  light,  and   truth,  and   the   heirs   of  the   gof- 

*  pel  to  take  their  poifeffion  of  it  in  every  county  and  city, 

*  therein  to  walk,  watch  over  one  another,  and  take  care  of 

*  God's  glory  and  honour,  and  his  precious  truth,  and  to 

*  fee  that  all  walk  in  the  truth  as   becomes  the   gofpel,  and 

*  to  fee  that  nothing  v^as  lacking ;  and  io  whatfoever  was 

*  decent,   modeft,  virtuous,   lovely,  comely,  righteous,  and 

*  of  good  report,  to  follow  after;  and  to  admonifli  and  ex- 

*  hort  all  that  were  not  faithful,  and  to  rebuke  all  that  did 
'  evil.      I  knew  this  would  give  fuch  a  check  to  all  loofe 

*  fpeakers,  talkers,  and  walkers,  that  there  would  be  an  op- 
'  pofition  againft  fuch  meetings.  Bat  heed  it  not,  trutli 
'  will  come  over  them  ail,  and  is  over  them  all,  and  faicli 
'  muft  have  the  vitlory ;  for   the  gofpel  and  its  order  is 

*  everlafting,  the  Seed  (Chrift)  is  the  beginning  and  the 
'  endirtg,  and  will  outlaft  all ;  the  Amen,  in  whom  ye  have 

*  peace.  I  fay,  all  that  oppofe  the  men's  and  women's 
'  meetings,  or  that  marriages  fhould  be  laid  before  them,  or 
'  the  recording  of  condemnations  of  fin  and  evil,  or  admo- 
'  nrftiing  or  exhorting  fuch  as  v/alk  not  in  the  truth,  are  of 

*  a  loofe  fpirit,  and  their  fpirits  tend  to  loofenefs.  Let  thoie 
«  take  them  that  will ;    truth  will  not  have  them,  nor  any  of 

Vol.   n.  £  E 


2i8  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

*  their  facrifice :  for  nothing  is  accepted  of  God  but  what  is 

*  done  in  truth,  and  in  his  Spirit,  which  is  peaceable.  The 
'  authority  of  our  men's  and  women's  meetings  is  the  povver 
'  of  God ;  all  the  heirs  of  the  gofpel  are  heirs  of  that  autho- 

*  rity  and  dignity ;  this  is  of  God,  and  fhall  anfwer  the  wit- 

*  nefs  of  God  in  all.  The  greateft  oppofers  of  this  pradice 
'  and  work  are  fuch  as  have  been  convinced  of  God's  truth, 

*  but  have  not  lived  in  it.     Such  were  the  greateft  troublers 

*  of  the  church  in  Mofes's  day,  and  in  the  days  of  the  apof- 

*  ties ;  but  mark  their  end,  and  read  what  became  of  them 
'  all.     Therefore  all  keep  your  habitation  in  the  truth,  and 

*  therein  ye  may  fee  what  became  of  all  the  oppofers  of  it 
'  for  twenty  years  paft :  they  are  all  gone,  and  the  truth 
'  lives  and  reigns ;  the  Seed  is  over  all,  and  all  are  one  in 
'  it,  in  reft,  peace,  and  life  everlafting ;  and  therein  they  fit 
'  down  together  in  the  heavenly  places  in  Chrift  Jefus,  the 
'  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  Swarthmorc,  the  5th  of  the 
*  8th  month,  1676.' 

While  I  was  at  Swarthmore,  died  William  Lampit,  prieft 
of  Ulverftone  (the  parifti  that  Swarthmore  is  in.)  He  was 
an  old  deceiver,  and  pervsrter  of  the  right  way  of  the  Lord, 
and  a  perfecutor  of  the  people  of  God.  Much  conteft  I 
had  with  him  when  I  firft  came  into  thofe  parts.  He  had 
been  an  old  falfe  prophet:  for  in  the  year  1652  he  prophe- 
fied  (and  faid  he  would  wage  his  life  upon  it)  '  that  the  Qua- 
'  kers  would  all  vanifti  and  come  to  nought  within  *half  a 
'  year  :'  but  he  came  to  nought  himfelf.  For  he  continued 
in  his  falfe  accufmg  of  God's  people  till  a  little  before  he 
died,  and  then  cried  for  a  little  reft.  To  one  of  his  hearers, 
that  came  to  vifit  him  before  he  died,  he  faid,  '  1  have  been 
'  a  preacher  a  long  time,  and  thought  I  had  lived  well ;  but 
'  I  did  not  think  it  had  been  fo  hard  a  thing  to  die.' 

After  I  had  finiftied  the  fei  vices  which  lay  upon  me  then 
to  do,  feeling  my  fpirit  drawn  towards  the  fouth  (though  I 
was  but  weak,  and  not  able  to  travel  far  in  a  day)  I  left 
Swarthmore  the  twenty-fixth  of  the  firft  month  1677,  ^^'^ 
went  to  Thomas  Pearfon's  at  Powbank  in  Weftmoreland, 
where  I  had  a  meeting  the  next  day;  and  from  thence  to 
Thomas  Camm's  at  Camm's-gill,  whither  Robert  Widders, 
with  his  wiie  and  feveral  other  friends  came  to  I'^-e  me  be- 
fore I  left  the  country,  and  to  attend  the  meeting  there  the 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  219 

next  day,  which  was  very  large,  and  in  which  I  was  largely 
drawn  forth  in  teftimony  to  the  truth.  I  had  much  dil"- 
courfe  with  fome  of  that  meeting,  who  were  not  in  unity 
with  the  quarterly  meeting  they  belonged  to :  but  after- 
wards feveral  of  them,  that  were  fomewhat  tender,  came  to 
fee  their  error,  and  gave  forth  condemnations  again  (I  them- 
felves.  Next  day  John  Blaykling  came  to  Thomas  Camm's, 
to  bring  me  to  his  houfe  at  Drawell  in  Sedberg  in  York- 
fhire;  whither  I  went  with  him,  vifiting  friends  in  the  way. 
I  ftaid  at  Drawell  two  or  three  nights,  having  meetings 
there  and  thereabouts  :  for  while  I  was  there,  the  men's  and 
women's  meetings  were  held,  which  were  very  large  and 
precious.  The  firft-day  following  I  had  a  meeting  at  Brig- 
flats,  to  which  moft  of  the  friends  from  the  feveral  meetings 
round,  with  a  great  concourfe  of  other  people,  came ;  it  xvas 
thought  there  were  five  or  fix  hundred  people.  A  very 
good  meeting  it  was,  wherein  truth  was  largely  declared 
and  precioufl)^  opened,  to  the  comforting  and  refrefhing  the 
faithful,  and  the  drawing  near  them  that  were  afar  off.  I 
had  another  meeting  at  John  Blaykling's,  where  came  many 
friends  that  were  going  to  the  quarterly  meeting  at  Kendal : 
with  them  my  wife  went  back  (who  with  her  daughter  Ra- 
chel had  accompanied  me  thus  far;)  and  I,  having  Leonard 
Fell  with  me,  paffed  through  Sedberg  and  Garfdale  into 
Wenfydale,  vifiting  friends  as  we  went.  At  night  I  reach^ 
ed  Richard  Robinfon's  at  Counterfide,  where  feveral  friends 
came  to  me  that  evening;  fome  of  whom  went  with  me  next 
day  to  the  widow  Tenant's  at  Scarhoufe  in  Langflroth-dale, 
whither  we  had  much  ado  to  get,  the  fnow  lay  fo  deep, 
though  it  was  a  week  in  the  fecond  month.  Here  on  firfi- 
day  we  had  a  large  meeting,  friends  coming  to  it  from  feve- 
ral parts  round  about ;  and  the  Lord  gave  me  a  very  fea- 
fonable  teftimony  to  bear  amongft  them,  which  I  did  for 
feveral  hours,  to  their  great  fatisfadlion  and  comfort.  Thence 
paffing  through  Bifhopfdale,  Mildum,  Barton,  and  by  Be- 
dal  and  Northallerton,  I  came  to  George  Robinfon's  at 
Burrow'by,  where  alfo  friends  coming  from  feveral  parts, 
we  had  a  very  large  and  good  meeting,  and  very  pe-aceable. 
Not  long  after,  an  envious  juftice,  hearing  I  had  a  great 
meeting  there,  troubled  friends  about  it,  and  made  them 
appear  at  the  feffions,  where  he  aflccd  them  many  cnfnaring 
queftions;  for  he  knew  not  how  to  convi6l  ihem,  becaufe 
he  had  no  proof  againft  them.  When  he  faw  his  queftions 
did  not  catch  them:   he  told  them,  '  He  had  heard  that 


2Z0  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

'  George  Fox  was  at  a  large  meeting  with  them,  and  they 
'  all  lat  filent,  and  none  Tpoke  in  the  meeting.'  This  falfe 
ftory  he  cunningly  feigned,  thinking  thereby  to  have  drawn 
fome  of  the  friends  to  have  contradicted  him,  and  have  faid, 

*  That  I  had  fpoke  in  the  meeting ;'  that  he  might  hsive 
convitled  them  upon  their  own  confeffion,  and  have  fined 
them.  But  friends  {landing  in  the  wifdom  of  God,  did  not 
anfwer  him  according  to  his  defire,  and  fo  efcaped  his 
Inare.  But  two  friends  that  came  out  of  Ireland  having  a 
meeting  that  evening  about  three  miles  oiF,  this  evil-minded 
juftice  got  information  thereof,  and  fined  friends,  and  plun- 
dered them  very  iorely  for  it. 

I  went  from  Burrowby  to  Ifaac  Lindley's,  calling  upon 
friends  as  I  went.  Robert  Lodge,  and  fome  friends  witA 
me,  next  day  paifed  to  York ;  and  the  day  following,  being 
firft-day,  I  was  at  friends  meeting  at  York,  which  was 
large  and  peaceable.  The  fecond  d.iy  alfo  I  ftaid  in  York, 
and  had  two  meetings  with  friends  at  John  Taylor's,  fronr^ 
whence  I  wrote  to  my  wife,  as  foiloweth : 

/Dear  Heart, 

*  '^  5  ^O  whom  is  my  love,  and  to  thy  daughters,  and   all 

*  JL  friends  that  inquire  after  me.  My  denres  are,  that  ye 
'  all  may    be  preferved  in  the    Lord's  everlafting   Seed,  in 

*  whom  ye  will  have  life  and  peace,  dominion,  and  fettle- 
'  ment  in  the  everhilting  home  or  dwelling,  in  the  houfe  built 
'  upon  the  foundation  of  God.      In  the  power  of  the  Lord  I 

*  am    brought  to   York,  having  had  many  meetings  in  the 

*  way.  The  way  was  many  times  deep  and  bad  with  fnow, 
'  our  horfes  fornetimes  were  down,  and  we  were  not  able  to 
'  ride ;  fornetimes  we  had  great  florms  and  rain,  but  by  the 
'  power  of  the  Lord  I  went  through  all.  At  Scarhouie  was 
'  a  very  large  meeting,  and  another  at  Burrowby,  to  which 
'  friends  came  out  of  Cleveland  and  Bilhoprick  ;  and  many 
'  other  meetings  we  have  had.  At  York  yefterday  we  had 
'  a  very  large  meeting,  exceedingly  thronged,  friends  being 

*  at  it  from  many  parts,  and  all  quiet,  and  friends  well  fatis- 
'  fied  :   Oh  !   the  glory  of  the  Lord  ihined  over  all.      This 

*  day  we  had  a  large  men's  and  women's  meeting,  many 
'  friends,  both  men  and  women,  and  ail  was  quiet.  This 
'  evening  we  are  to  have  the  men's  and  women's  meeting  of 
'  the  friends  of  the  city.  John  Whitehead  is  here,  with 
'  Robert  Lodge  and  others  :  friends  are  mighty  glad,  above 

*  meafure.     S,o  I  am  in  my  holy  element,  and  holy  v/ork 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  221 

'  in  the  Lord ;  glory  to  his  name  for  ever !   To-morrow  I 

*  intend  to  go  out  of  the  city  towards  Tadcafter,  thouuh  I 

*  cannot  ride  as  in  days  paft  ;  yet  praifed  be  the  Lord  that  I 

*  can  travel  To  well  as  I  do !    So  my  love  in  the  Fountain  of 
'  Life,  in  which  as  ye  all  abide  ye  will  have  the  refrefhment 

*  of  life  ;  that  by  it  ye  may  grow,  and  gather  eternal  llrength 
'  to  ferve  the  Lord,  and  be  fatisfied.      To  the  God  of  all 

*  power,  who  is  all-fufficient  to  preferve  you,  I  commit  you 

*  all  to  his  ordering. 

'  G.  F.' 
*  York,  the  16th  of  the  fecond 
'  month,    1677.' 

Leaving  York,  I  viilted  friends  at  Tadcafter,  Not!;ingly, 
Doncafter,  and  Balby,  having  meetings  as  I  went.  At 
Balby  I  ftaid  the  firft-day  meeting,  and  went  next  day  to 
Thomas  Stacy's  at  Ballowfield,  where  in  the  evening  I  had 
a  meeting,  to  compofe  a  difference  that  had  happened  be- 
tween fome  that  profeifed  truth,  and  they  were  reconciled. 
Next  day  I  came  to  Stainfby  in  Dcrbyfhire,  in  which  coun- 
ty I  had  formerly  lived,  about  the  firft  breaking  forth  of 
truth.  Here  I  had  a  good  meeting  with  friends,  and  after- 
wards paired  to  Skegby  in  Nottinghamfhire,  and  from  thence 
to  Nottingham,  to  John  Recklels's.  I  had  a  meeting  with 
friends  at  his  houfe  that  evening,  and  another  the  next  day 
in  friends  publick  meeting-houfe,  which  was  peaceable  and 
well. 

I  went  the  day  following  to  John  Fox's  at  Wymefwould 
in  Lcicefterfhire,  where  I  had  a  meeting  that  evening  :  and 
next  day  to  William  Smith's  at  Sileby,  where,  it  being 
firft-day,  we  had  a  very  large  meeting  :  for  befides  friends 
from  feveral  places,  many  of  the  town's-people,  hearing  I 
was  there,  came  to  the  meeting,  and  heard  the  truth  declar- 
ed gladly.  Next  day  I  went  to  Leiceftcr,  where  finding 
many  friends  come  out  of  the  country,  to  be  at  the  horle- 
fair  next  day,  I  had  a  very  good  meeting  with  them  thit 
night,  and  another  next  evening  at  William  Wells's  at 
Knighton,  about  a  mile  from  Leicefter.  Next  day  I  pafTed 
to  Swanington,  and  had  a  meeting  there  :  from  thence  to 
Samuel  Fretweii's  at  Hartlhorn  in  Derby Ihire,  where  I  had 
a  meeting  alfo;  then  to  Henry  Sidon's  at  Badgely  in  War- 
wick(hire,  and  ftaid  the  meeting  there,  which,  bein-^  the 
firft-day,  was  very  large  and  peaceable,  notwithftanding  a 
juftice  h^d  threatened  to  come  and  break  it  up.     I  went  in 


222  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

the  evening  to  Richard  Baal's  of  Whittington,  where  feve- 
ral  friends  came  to  vifit  me.  Next  day  I  went  to  Nathani- 
el Newton's  at  Hartftiill,  where  feveral  friends  met  me,  with 
whom  I  had  good  fervice.  After  this  I  palTed  on,  vifiting 
friends  in  divers  places,  till  I  came  to  Dingley,  where  a 
meeting  was  appointed  before,  which  was  very  numerous, 
and  truth  was  largely  opened  to  the  people :  the  meeting 
"Was  peaceable,  and  the  people  generally  fober  ;  faving  that; 
while  1  was  fhewing  how  chriftendom  (fo  called)  was  gone 
from  the  pure  religion  that  is  undefiled,  &c.  a  man  rulbed 
out  in  a  furious  manner,  and  faid,  '  I  deny  that.'  After 
this  meeting,  I  went  with  Thomas  Charles  to  his  houfe  at 
Adingworth ;  and  next  day  to  Northampton,  where  I  ftaid 
the  firfl-day  meeting,  which  was  very  large  and  peace- 
able. I  had  much  fervice  among  friends  befides.  Next 
day  Edward  Cooper  of  Northampton  accompanied  me  to 
OIncy  in  Buckinghamfhire,  where  I  ftaid  at  James  Brier- 
lie's,  feveral  friends  coming  to  fee  me  in  the  evening.  Nex£ 
day  I  went  to  a  meeting  at  Tuny  in  Bedfordfhire,  to  which 
friends  came  from  feveral  parts.  It  was  a  very  large  meeting. 
Here  I  met  with  William  Dewfberry,  who  after  the  meet- 
ing took  me  to  his  fon-in-law  John  Rufh's  of  Kempfton, 
where  I  ftaid  with  William  that  night  and  moft  of  the  next 
day  ;  paftmg  thence  towards  the  evening  through  Ampthill 
to  Thomas  GamboU's  of  Bullocks-hill.  V/illiam  Dewf- 
berry went  along  with  me,  and  feveral  friends  came  to  vifit 
us.  Next  day,  pafting  through  Luton,  I  went  to  Market- 
ftrcet,  William  Dewfberry  accompanying  me  part  of  the 
xvay,  and  the  day  following  Leonard  Fell.  I  had  a  meet- 
ing at  Kenfworth,  which  was  pretty  large  and  peaceable  ; 
after  which  we  vifited  friends  at  Aiban's,  and  next  day  at 
South  Mims  and  Barnet.  We  came  that  night  to  the  wi- 
dow Haly's  at  Gutterftiedge  in  Hendon,  Middlefex.  Next 
day,  being  firft-day,  we  had  a  very  large  meeting  there,  fe- 
veral friends  coming  from  London.  I  ftaid  fecond-day, 
and  the  third  went  to  William  Mead's  houfe  at  Highgate, 
with  whom  next  day  I  went  to  London.  It  being  fourth- 
day,  I  went  to  the  meeting  at  Gracechurch-ftreet^  where 
friends  and  I  were  greatly  refrefhed  in  each  other  in  the  Lord, 
and  the  Lord's  power  and  Seed  was  fet  over  all ;  blefled  be 
his  name  for  ever! 

Thus  it  pleafed  the  Lord  to  bring  me  fafe  to  London, 
tho'  much  wearied;  for  tho'  I  rode  not  Very  far  in  a  day, 
yet  thro'  wcaknefs  of  body,  continual  travelling  was  hard  to 


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me.  Befides,  I  had  not  much  reft  a-nights  to  refrefti  na- 
ture, for  I  often  fat  up  late  with  friends  where  I  lodged,  to 
inform  and  advife  them  in  things  wherein  they  were  want- 
ing ;  and  when  I  was  in  bed,  I  was  often  hindered  of  flecp 
by  great  pains  in  my  head  and  teeth,  occafioned,  as  I 
thought,  by  cold  I  had  taken  by  riding  often  in  the  rain. 
But  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all,  and  carried  me  through 
all,  to  his  praife. 

In  my  journey  I  obferved  a  flacknefs  and  fhortnefs  in 
fome  that  profefled  truth,  in  keeping  up  the  ancient  teftimo- 
ny  of  truth  againft  tithes  :  for  where-ever  that  fpirit  got  en- 
trance which  wrought  divifion  in  the  church,  and  oppofed 
the  men's  and  women's  meetings,  it  weakened  thofe  that  re- 
ceived it  in  their  teftimony  againft  tithes.  Wherefore  I  was 
moved  of  the  Lord  to  give  forth  an  '  Epiftle  to  friends,'  to 
ftir  up  the  pure  mind  in  them,  and  to  encourage  and 
ftrengthen  them  in  their  chriftian  teftimony  againft  that  an- 
tichriftian  yoke  of  oppreflion. 

'  My  dear  friends, 
'  T3  E  faithful  to  the   Lord  in  your  teftimony  for  Jefus, 

*  _I3  who  hath  ended  the  levitical  priefthood  of  Aaron 
'  that  took  tithes,  and  fent  his  minifters  to  give  freely  that 
'  which  they  had  received  of  him  freely,  without  a  bag  or 

*  a  ftaff".      Chrift's  difciples  could  not  join  with  thofe  that 

*  made  a  trade  of  preaching.  And  as  there  was  a  teftimony 
'  to  be  borne  againft  thofe  tithes  which  were  commanded  in 
'  the  law  for  Levi  and  Aaron,  fo  there  is  a  teftimony  to  be 

*  borne  againft  thofe  tithes  which  have  been  fet  up  by  man 
'  in  the  dark  time  of  popery,   and  not  fet  up  by  God  nor 

*  Chrift.     To  cry  againft  the  priefts  in  words,  and  yet  to 

*  give  them  means,  and  put  into  their  mouths,  that  they 
'  may   not   prepare   war  againft    you,    is   a   contradi6lion, 

*  Therefore  take  heed :  for  if  the  Lord  blefs  you  with  out- 
'  ward  creatures,  and  you  beftow  them  upon  Baal's  priefts, 

*  he  may  juftly  require  the  outward  things  from  you  again 

*  which  he  hath  given  you;  who  faith,  That  his  minifiers 
'  fhould  freely  give,  as  they  have  heely  received.      So  all 

*  the  preachers  for  tithes  and  money,  and  the  takers  and 
'  payers  of  tithe,  muft  be  teftified  againft  in  the  Lord's 
'  power  and  Spirit;  that  all  may  ftand  up  in  their  tcftimo- 
'  ny  for  Jefus  Chrift,  in  his  power  and  fpirit,  againft  the 
'  tithe-mongers.  Confider  how  many  faithful  fcrvants  and 
'  valiants  of  the   Lord  have  laid  down  their  livci;  a/'ainft 


224  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [[677 

*  thetn,  in  this  day  of  the  Lord ;  and  in  the  days  of  the 
'  martyrs   they   did   witnefs   againft   them.      Confider  alfo 

*  what  judgments  have  come  upon  thofe  that  fpoiled  friends 
'  goods,  and  caft  them  into  prifon  for  tithes  and  mainte- 

*  nance.     Therefore  in  the  power  of  the  Lord  maintain  the 

*  war  againft  the  beaft,  and  do  not  put  into  his  mouth,  left 

*  he  cry  peace  to  you ;  which  peace  you  muft  not  receive, 
'  but  it  muft  be  broken  and  thrown  out  by  the  Spirit  of 
'  God.      Then  in  the  fame  Spirit  ye  will  receive  the  peace 

*  from  the  Son  of  peace,  which  the  beaft,   the  whore,  and 

*  the  world,  with  all  their  earthly  teachers  for  the  earth, 
'  made  by  man,  cannot  receive  nor  bereave  you  of.     There- 

*  fore  keep  your  authority  and  dominion  in  the  power,  Spi- 
'  rit,  and  name  of  Jefus,  in  whom  is  my  love  to  you. 

''  G.  F.' 
•  3d  month,  1677.' 

I  came  to  London  ten  or  twelve  -days  before  the  yearly 
meeting ;  in  which  time  I  fell  in  with  friends  there  in  the 
fervice  of  truth,  vifiting  them  at  the  meetings.  The  par- 
liament then  fitting,  we  prepared  fomething  to  lay  before 
them,  concerning  feizing  the  third  part  of  friends  eftates,  as 
PopiOi  recufants;  which  was  a  great  fufFering,  and  a  griev- 
ance we  complained  of;  but  no  redrefs  we  got. 

To  the  yearly  meeting  many  friends  came  from  moft  parts 
of  the  nation,  and  fome  out  of  Scotland,  Holland,  &c. 
Very  glorious  meetings  we  had,  wherein  the  Lord's  power- 
ful prefence  was  very  largely  felt,  and  the  aff"airs  of  truth 
Avere  fweetly  carried  on  in  the  unity  of  the  Spirit,  to  the 
fatisfadion  and  comfort  of  the  upright-hearted ;  blcffed  be 
the  Lord  for  ever  !  After  the  yearly  meeting,  having  ftaid 
a  week  or  two  with  friends  in  London,  I  went  with  William 
Penn  to  Lis  houfe  in  Sulfex ;  John  Burnyeate  and  fome 
other  friends  being  with  us.  As  we  pafled  through  Surry, 
hearing  the  quarterly  meeting  for  the  county  was  that  day, 
William  Pcnn,  John  iJurnyeate,  and  I  went  from  the  road 
to  it ;  and  after  the  meeting  returning  to  our  other  com- 
pany, went  with  them  to  William  Penn's  that  night,  which 
i^  forty  miles  from  London.  I  ftaid  at  Worminghurft  about 
three  weeks,  in  which  time  ]ohn  Burnycate  and  I  anfwered 
a  very  wicked  and  envious  book,  which  Roger  Williams,  a 
prieft  of  New- England  (or  fome  colony  thcica bouts)  had 
written  againft  truth  and  friends.  When  we  had  finiftied 
that  fervice,  we  went  with  Stephen  Smith  to  his  houfe  at 


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Waipledon  in  Surry,  where  we  had  a  large  meetln'r. 
Friends  thereaway  had  been  exceedingly  plundered  about 
two  months  before  on  the  prieft's  account ;  for  they  took 
from  Stephen  Smith  five  kine  (being  all  he  had)  for  about 
fifty  (hillings  tithes.  From  thence  we  went  to  Kingflon, 
and  fo  to  London,  where  1  (laid  not  long:  for  it  was  upon 
me  from  the  Lord  to  go  into  Holland,  to  vifit  friends  and 
to  preach  the  gofpel  there  and  in  fome  parts  of  Germany. 
Wherefore  fetting  things  in  order  for  my  journey  as  fafl  as 
I  could,  I  took  leave  of  friends  at  London,  and  with  feveral 
other  friends  went  down  to  Colchefler  in  Eilex,  in  order  to 
my  pafTage  for  Holland.  Next  day,  being  firfl-day,  I  was 
at  the  publick  meeting  of  friends  there,  which  was  very 
large  and  peaceable.  In  the  evening  I  had  another  large 
meeting,  but  not  fo  publick.  at  John  Furly's  houfc,  where 
I  lodged.  The  day  following  was  the  women's  meeting, 
which  was  alfo  very  large.  Next  day  we  palFcd  to  Har- 
wich, where  Robert  Duncon,  and  feveral  other  friends 
came  to  fee  us ;  and  fome  from  London  that  intended  to 
go  over  with  me.  The  packet-boat  not  being  ready,  we 
went  to  the  meeting  in  the  town,  and  a  precious  opportu- 
nity we  had  together ;  for  the  Lord,  according  to  his  wont- 
ed goodnefs,  by  his  overcoming,  refrelhing  power,  opened 
many  mouths  to  declare  his  everlalling  truth,  and  to  praife 
and  glorify  him.  After  the  meeting,  we  returned  to  John 
Vandewall's,  where  I  had  lodged;  and  when  ihe  boat  was 
ready  (taking  leave  of  friends)  we  that  were  bound  for  Hol- 
land went  on  board  about  the  9th  hour  in  the  evening,  the 
25th  of  the  5th  month,  1677. 

The  friends  that  went  over  with  me  were  William  Penn, 
Robert  Barclay,  George  Keith  and  his  wife,  John  Furly 
and  his  brother,  William  Tailcoat,  George  Watts,  and 
Ifabel  Yeomans,  one  of  my  wife's  daughters.  About  the 
fir  ft  hour  in  the  morning  we  weighed  anchor,  having  a 
fair,  brifk  wind,  which  by  the  next  morning  brought  us 
within  fight  of  Holland.  But  that  day  proving  \'ery  clear 
and  calm,  we  got  forward  but  little  till  about  the  fourth 
hour  in  the  aflernoon,  v.'hen  a  frefh  gale  aroie,  which  car- 
ried us  witliin  a  league  of  land.  Then  being  becalmed,  we 
caft  anchor  for  that  night  between  the  hours  of  nine  and 
ten  in  the  evening.  But  William  Pcnn  and  Robert  Bar- 
clay (underftanding  Benjamin  Ymly  was  come  from  Rot- 
terdam to  the  Briei  to  meet  us)  got  two  of  the  boatmen  to 
let  down  a  fmall  boat  that  belonged  to  the  packet,   and 

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226  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

row  them  to  (Lore  :  but  before  they  could  reach  it,  the  gates 
were  fhut ;  and  there  being  no  houfe  without  the  gate,  they 
were  fain  to  he  in  a  fifher's  boat  all  night.  As  foon  as  the 
gates  were  opened  in  the  morning,  they  v/ent  in,  and  found 
Benjamin  Furly,  with  other  friends  of  Rotterdam,  come  to 
receive  us ;  and  they  fent  a  boat,  with  three  young  men  in 
it,  that  lived  with  Benjamin  Furly,  who  brought  us  to  the 
Briel,  where  the  friends  received  us  with  great  gladnefs. 

We  ftaid  about  two  hours  to  refrefh  ourfelves  ;  and  then 
took  boat,  with  the  Holland  friends,  for  Rotterdam,  where 
we  arrived  about  the  eleventh  hour  that  day,  the  28th  of 
the  fifth  month  1677.  I  was  very  well  this  voyage,  but 
fome  of  the  friends  were  fea-fick.  A  fine  paffage  we  had, 
and  all  came  fafe  and  well  to  land  ;  bleCTed  and  praifed  be 
the  name  of  the  Lord  for  ever  ! 

The  next  day,  being  firft-day,  we  had  two  meetings  at 
Benjamin  Furly 's,  where  many  of  the  town's-people  and 
fome  officers  came  in,  and  all  were  civil.  Benjamin  Furly 
or  John  Claus  interpreted,  when  any  friend  declared.  I 
fpent  the  next  day  in  vifiting  friends.  The  day  following, 
Wilham  Penn  and  1,  with  other  friends,  went  towards  Am- 
fterdam,  with  fome  of  that  city,  who  came  to  Rotterdam  to 
conduct  us  thither.  We  took  boat  in  the  afternoon,  and, 
paffing  by  Overkirk,  came  to  Delft,  through  which  we  walk- 
ed on  foot ;  and  then  took  boat  again  to  Leyden,  where  we 
lodged  that  night  at  an  inn.  This  is  counted  fix  Dutch 
miles  from  Rotterdam,  which  are  eighteen  Englifh  miles, 
and  five  hours  fail,  or  travelling;  for  our  boat  was  drawn  by 
an  horfe  that  went  on  the  fhore.  Next  day  taking  boat 
again,  we  went  to  Harlem,  fourteen  miles  from  Leyden,- 
where  we  had  appointed  a  meeting,  which  proved  very  large. 
Many  of  the  town's-people  came  in,  and  two  of  their  preach- 
ers. The  Lord  gave  us  a  blelTed  opportunity,  not  only 
with  refpeft  to  friends,  but  to  other  fober  people,  and  the 
meeting  ended  peaceably  and  well.  After  meeting  we  paf- 
fcd  to.Amfterdam,  accompanied  by  feveral  friends  of  that 
city  and  of  Alkmaer. 

Next  day  was  the  quarterly  meeting  at  Amflerdam,  to 
which  canie  friends  from  Harlem,  and  Rotterdam,  and  with 
them  thole  of  our  company,  whom  we  had  left  at  Rotter- 
d;im,  viz.  Robert  Barclay,  George  Keith  and  his  wife,  &c. 
The  meeting  w^s  at  Gertrude  Dirick  Niefon's,  A  very 
large  and  ferviceable  meeting  it  was.  William  Penn  and 
I  were  drawn  to  open  many  things  concerning  the  order  of 


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the  gofpel,  and  to  fhew  the  beuefit  and  fervice  of  yearly, 
quarterly  and  monthly  meetings  of  men  and  women.  We 
had  another  meeting  at  Gertrude's  the  next  day,  more  pub- 
lick,  and  very  large,  at  which  were  profefTors  of  feveral  iorts, 
unto  whom  the  way  of  life  and  falvation  was  largely  and 
livingly  opened;  which  they  hearkened  very  attentively  to, 
none  making  any  objeftion  to  what  was  declared.  In  the 
afternoon  we  had  another  meeting  in  the  fame  place,  but 
lefs,  and  more  private.  The  day  following  we  had  a  meet- 
ing of  friends  only,  wherein  by  joint  agreement  were  fettled 
feveral  meetmgs.  to  wit,  monthly,  quarterly,  and  a  yearly 
meeting,  to  be  held  at  Amflerdam  for  friends  in  all  the 
United  Provinces  of  Holland,  and  in  Embden,  the  Palati- 
nate, Hamburgh,  Frederickftadt,  Dantzick,  and  other  pla- 
ces in  and  about  Germany  ;  which  friends  were  very  glad  of, 
and  it  hath  been  of  great  fervice  to  truth. 

Next  day  an  exercife  came  upon  me  concerning  that  de- 
ceitful fpirit  which  wrought  in  fome  to  make  divifions  in  the 
church,  and  the  care  of  the  churches  being  upon  me,  I  was 
moved  to  write  a  few  lines  to  warn  friends  of  it,  as  foUoweth : 

*  A  LL  friends,  keep  over  that  fpirit  of  feparation  and  di- 
'  JL\.  vifion,  in  the  peaceable  truth,  and   m   the   Seed  of 

*  life,  which  w^ill  wear  it  all  out,  and  outlafl;  it.  For  the 
'  Lamb  will  have  the  viftory  over  all  the  fpirits  of  ftrife,  as 

*  it  hath  had  fince   the  beginning  ;  and  they  will  wither,  as 

*  others  have  done  :  but  all  that  keep  in  the  Seed,  which 
'  is  always  green,  fhall  never  wither;  as  friends  have  been 

*  to  this  day  kept.      If  any  have  backOidden,  thrown  ofiF  the 

*  crofs,  grown  loofe  and  full,  and  gone  into  llrife  and  con- 

*  tention  with  their  earthly  fpirits,  and  therein  plead  for  li- 
'  berty,  this   fpirit   taketh   with  loofe,    earthly    fpirits,  and 

*  cries  impofition  to  fuch  as  admonifh  them  to  come  to  the 

*  life,  light,   Spirit,  and  power  of  God,  that  they   may  be 

*  made  alive,  and  live  again  with  the  living.      Upon  this  ad- 

*  monition  their  fpirits  rife  into  contention,  ftrife,  and  fepa- 

*  ration,  turning  againft   the  living,  in   their  loofe  earthly 

*  fpirits,  which  would  have  the  name  of  truth,  but  are  not 

*  in  the  nature  of  it,  but  are  for  eternal  judgment  of  the  iiv- 

*  ing  Seed.  This  is  it  which  doth  deceive,  but  it  is  judged 
'  by  that  which  doth  undeceive  and  fave. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  Amfterdam  in  Holland,  the  5th 
^  of  the  6th  month,  1677.' 
F   F  2 


228  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

This  being  firft-day,  we  had  a  very  large  meeting,  there 
corning  to  it  a  great  concourfe  of  people  of  feveral  opinions, 
Baptifls,  Seekers,  Socinians,  Brownifls,  and  fome  of  the 
Collegians.  Robert  Barclay,  George  Keith,  William  Penn 
and  I,  did  all  feverally  declare  the  everlafting  truth  among 
them  ;  opening  the  flate  of  man  in  the  fall,  and  fhevving  by 
what  way  man  and  woman  may  come  into  the  reftoration 
by  Chrifl  Jefus.  The  myflery  of  iniquity  and  the  myllery 
of  godlincfs  were  very  plainly  laid  open,  and  the  meeting 
ended  quietly  and  well. 

The  day  following,  George  Keith,  Robert  Barclay,  and 
William  Penn,  leaving  me  and  fome  other  friends  at  Am- 
fterdam,  fet  forward  towards  Germany,  where  they  travelled 
many  hundred  miles,  and  had  good  fervice  for  the  Lord, 
Benjamin  Furly  going  with  them,  and  interpreting. 

That  day  and  the  next  I  flaid  at  Amfterdam,  vifiting 
friends,  and  afiifling  them  in  fome  bufinefs  concerning  their 
meetings.  Three  Baptifls  came  to  difcourfe  with  me,  to 
whom  I  opened  things  to  their  fatisfaftion,  and  they  parted 
from  me  in  kindnefs.  I  wrote  a  letter  alfo  to  the  princefs 
Elizabeth,  which  Ifabel  Yeomans  delivered  to  her,  when 
George  Keith's  wife  and  Ihc  went  to  vifit  her. 

'  Princefs  Elizabeth, 
'  T  HAVE  heard  of  thy  tendernefs  towards  the  Lord  and 
'  X  his  holy  truth,  by  fome  friends  that  have  vifited  thee, 
'  and  alfo  by  fome  of  thy  letters,  which  I  have  feen ;  which 
'  indeed  is  a  great  thing,  for  a  perfon  of  thy  quality  to  have 
'  fuch  a  tender  mind  after  the  Lord  and  his  precious  truth, 
'  feeing  fo  many  are  fwallowed  up  with  voluptuoufnefs,  and 

*  the  pleafures  of  this  world;  yet  all  make  an  outward  pro- 

*  felTion  of  God  and  Ciirifl  one  way  or  other,  but  without 

*  any  deep  inward  fenfe  and  feeling  of  him.      For  it  is  not 

*  many  mi'ijhfy  nor  wife  of  the  world  that  can  become  fools  for 
'  Chrift's  fake,  or  can  become  low  in  the  humility  of  Chrift 
'  Jefus  from  their  mighty   ftate,  through  which  they  might 

*  receive  a  mightier  eflate,  and  a  mightier  kingdom,  through 
•"the  inward  holy  Spirit,  the  divine  light  and  power  of  God  ; 

*  and  a  mightier  wifdom,  which   is  from   above,  pure  and 

*  peaceable:  which  wifdom  is  above  that  which  is  below, 
'  that  is  earthly,  fenfual,  and  devilifh,  by  which  men  def- 
'  troy  one  another  about  their  religions,  ways,  worfhips,  and 

*  churches:  but  this  they  have  not  from  God  nor  Chrift. 
^  The  wifdom  which   is  from  above,  by  which   all  things 


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*  wpre  made  and  created,  which  the  holy  fear  of  God  in  the 

*  heart  is  the  beginning  of,  keeps  the  heart  clean.     By  this 

*  wifdom  are  all   God's  children  to  be  ordered,  and  with  it 

*  come  to  order  all  things  to  God's  glory.     This  is  the  wif- 

*  dom  that  is  juflified  of  her  children.      In  this  fear  of  God 

*  and  wifdom,  my  dehre  is,  that  thou  mayeft  be  preferved  to 

*  God's  glory.     For  the  Lord  is  come  to  teach  his  people 

*  himfelf,  and  to  fet  up  his   enfign,  that  the   nations   may 

*  flow  unto  it.     There  hath  been  an  apollacy,  fince  the  apof- 

*  ties  days,  from  the  divine   light  of  Chrift,  which  fliould 

*  have  given  them  the  "  light  of  the  knowledge  of  the  glory 
"  of  God  in  the  face  of  Chrifl  Jefus  ;"  and  from  the   Holy 

*  Spirit,  which  would  have   led  them   into  all  truth ;  and 

*  therefore  have  people  fet  up  To  many  leaders  without  them, 

*  to  give  them  knowledge  ;  and  alfo  from  the  holy  and  pre- 
'  cious  faith  which  Jefus  Chrifl  is  the  author  and  finifher  of, 
'  which  faith  purifies  the  heart,  and  gives  viftory  over  that 
'  which  feparates  from  God  ;  through  which  faith  they  have 

*  accefs  to  God,  and  in  which  faith  they  pleafe  God.  the 
'  myftery  of  which  is  held  in  a  pure  confcience.  And  alfo 
'  from  the  gofpel  which  was  preached  in  the  apoftle's  days 

*  (which  gofpel  is  the  power  of  God)  which  brings  life  and 

*  immortality  to  light  in  man  and  woman,  by  which  people 

*  fhould  have  feen  over  the  devil  that  has  darkened  them  ; 

*  which  gofpel  will  preferve  all  them  that  receive  it  in  life 
'  and  immortality.  For  the  eyes  of  people  have  been  after 
'  men,  and  not  after  the  Lord,  who  doth  write  his  law  in 
'  the  hearts,  and  puts  it  into  the  minds  of  all  the  children 
'  of  the  new  covenant  of  light,    life,  and   grace ;    through 

*  which  they  all  come  to  know  the  Lord,  from  the  leaft  to 

*  the  greateft  :   fo  that  the  knowledge  of  the  Lord  may  cover 

*  the  earth,  as   the  waters   do  the  fea.     This  work  of  the 

*  Lord  is  beginning  again,  as  it  was  in  the  apoflJes  days; 
'  people  fliall  come  to  receive  an  un6lion  in  them  from  the 

*  Holy  One,  by  which  they  fliall  know  all  things,  and  (hail 

*  not  need  any  man  to  tench  them,  but  as  the  anointing  doth 

*  teach  them ;  and  alfo  to  know  what  the  righteoufncfs  of 
'  faith  fpeaks,  the  word  nigh  in  the  heart  and  mouth  to  obey 

*  it,  and  to  do  it.     This  was   the  word  ol  failh  the  apoftlcs 

*  preached  ;  which  is  now  received  and  preached  again,  and 

*  is  the  duty  of  all  true  Chrifl;ians  to  receive.      So  now  peo- 

*  pie  are  coming  out  of  the  apoftacy,  to  the  light  of  Chriil 

*  and  his   Spirit;  to  receive  iaith  from  him,  and  not  from 

*  meuj  to  receive  the  gofpel  from  him,,  their  uivjlicn  from 


230  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1677 

*  him,  the  Word ;  and  as  they  receii'e  him,  they  declare 

*  him  freely,  as  his  command  was  to  his  difciples,  and  is  ftill 

*  to  the  learners  and  receivers  of  him.      For  the    Lord  God 

*  and  his  Son  Jefus  Chrifl  is  come  to  teach  his  people,  and 
'  to  bring  them  from  all  the  world's  ways  to  Chrift  the  way, 

*  the  truth,  and  the  life,  who  is  the  way  to  the  Father  ;  and 

*  from  all  the  world's  teachers  and  fpeakers  to  him  the  fpeak- 
'  er  and   teacher,  as  Heb.  i.   1.  and  from   all    the  world's 

*  worlhippers,  to   worfhip   God  in    the   Spirit  and    in   the 

*  truth,  which  worfhip  Chrift  fet  up  above  fixteen  hundred 

*  years  ago,  when  he  put  down  the  Jews  worfhip  at  the  tem- 

*  pie  at  Jerufalem,  and  the  worfhip  at  the  mountain  where 

*  Jacob's  well  was;  and  to  bring  people  from  all  the  world's 

*  religions,  which  they  have  made  fmce  the  apoftles  days, 
'  to  the  religion  that  was  fet  up  by  Chrift  and  his  apoftles, 

*  which  is  pure  and  undefiled  before  God,  and  keeps  from 
'  the  fpots  of  the  world  ;  and  to  bring   them  out  of  all  the 

*  world's  churches  and  fellowfhips,  made  and  fet  up  fmce 
'  the  apoftles  days,  to  the  church  that  is  in  God,  the  Fa- 
'  ther  of  our  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  ThefT.  i.  1.  and  to  bring 
'  to  the  unity  and  fellowfhip  in  the  Holy  Spirit,  that  doth 

*  mortify,  circumcife,  and  baptize,  to  plunge  down  fin  and 
'  corruption,  that  has  got  up  in  man  and  woman  by  tranf- 
'  greffion.      In  this  Holy  Spirit  there  is  holy  fellowfhip  and 

*  unity ;  yea,  it  is  the  bond  of  the    Prince  of  Princes,  the 

*  King  of  Kings,  and  Lord  of  Lords  peace  :  which  hea- 
'  venly  peace  all  true  Chriftians  are  to  maintain  with  fpiri- 
'  tual  weapons,  not  with  carnal. 

'  And  now,  my  friend,  the  holy  men  of  God  wrote  the 

*  fcriptures  as  they  were  moved  by  the  Holy  Ghoft ;  and 
'  all  Chriftendom  are  on  heaps  about  thofe  fcriptures,  be- 
'  caufe  they  are  not  led  by  the  fame  Holy  Ghoft  as  thofe 
'  were  that  gave  forth  the  fcriptures ;  which  Holy  Ghoft 
'  they  muft  come  to  in  thcmfelves,  and  be  led  by,  if  they 

*  come  into  all  the  truth  of  them,  and  to  have  the  comfort 
'  of  God,  Chrift,  and  them.  For  none  can  call  Jefus  Lord 
'  but  by  the  Holy  Ghoft  ;  and  all  that   call    Chrift    Lord 

*  without  the  Holy  Ghoft,  take  his  name  in  vain.  Like- 
'  wife  all  that  name  his  name  are  to  depart  from  iniquity  ; 
'  then  they  name  his  name  with  reverence,   in   truth   and 

*  righteoufnefs.  O  therefore  feel  the  grace  and  truth  in  thy 
'heart,  that  is  come  by  Jefus  Chrifl,  that  will  teach  thee 
'  how  to  live,  and  what  to  deny.  It  will  eftablifh  thy  heart, 
'  fcafcm  iny  words,  and  bring  thy  falvation,  and  will  be  a 


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23' 


*  teacher  unto  thee  at  all  times.     By  it  thou  mayefl  receive 

*  Chrift,  from   whence  it  comes ;   and  as  many  as  receive 

*  him,  to  them  he  gives  power  not  only  to  ftand  againil  fm 

*  and  evil,  but  to  become  the  fons  of  God  :  if  fons,  then 
'  heirs  of  a  life,  and  a  world  and  kingdom  without  end,  and 

*  of  the  eternal  riches  and  treafures  thereof.     So  in  hafte, 

*  with  my  love  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  who  tafted  death 

*  for  every  man,  and  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head,  that  has 
'  been  betwixt  God  and  man,  that  through  Chrift  man  may 
'  come  to  God  again,  and  praife  him  through  Jefus  Chriil 

*  the  Amen,  the  fpiritual,  heavenly  rock  and  foundation  for 

*  all  God's  people  to  build  upon,  to  the  praife  and  glory  of 

*  God,  who  is  over  all,  bleffed  for  evermore ! 

'George   Fox.* 
'  Amfterdam,  the  7th  of  the 
'  6th  month,  1677. 

'POSTSCRIPT. 

*  The  bearer  hereof  is  a  daughter-in-law  of  mine,  that 

*  comes  with  Gertrude  Dirick  Niefon  and  George  Keith's 
'  wife,  to  give  thee  a  vifit. 

'  G.  F.' 

The  princefs  Elizabeth's  anfwer : 

'  Dear  friend, 

I  CAN  NOT  but  have  a  tender  love  to  thole  that  love 
the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  to  whom  it  is  given  not  only  to 
believe  in  him,  but  alfo  to  fuffer  for  him  :  therefore  your 
letter,  and  your  friends  vifit,  have  been  both  very  wel- 
come to  me.  I  fhall  follow  their  and  your  counfel,  as  far 
as  God  will  afford  me  light  and  un£lion  :  remaining  ftili 
Your  loving  friend, 

♦  Hertfort,  the  30th  of 

'  Auguft,  1677.'  'ELIZABETH.' 

Next  day  John  Claus  and  I  palfed  to  Buyckflote,  Pur- 
merent,  and  Alkmaer,  about  thirty  miles  from  Amfterdam. 
We  went  to  a  friend's  whofe  name  was  Willem  Willems, 
where  I  had  a  meeting  that  night.  I  had  another  next  day, 
which  was  larger :  feveral  profeffcrs  came,  and  ail  was  quiet 
and  well.  After  the  meeting  I  vifitcd  feme  friends;  then, 
taking  boat,  palTed  to  Hooru,  counted  the  chief  city  in 
North  Holland.      We  lodged  at  an  inn ;  and,  taking  wag- 


232  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

gon  early  next  morning,  we  paflfed  to  Enckhuyfen,  where 
we  took  fhip  for  Friefland ;  and,  landing  in  the  afternoon 
at  Workum,  took  water,  and  rode  upon  the  high  bank  of 
the  Friezen  feas,  till  we  met  two  friends  coming  with  a  wag- 
gon to  meet  us,  with  whom  we  went  to  Harlingen,  the  chief 
fea-port  town  in  Friefland.  We  went  to  Heirel  Jacobs's, 
whither  feveral  friends  came  to  vifit  us  that  night.  Next 
day  we  vifited  the  friends  of  the  place ;  and  I  wrote  a  paper, 
directed,  '  To  all  them  that  perfecute  friends  for  not  ob- 
'  ferving  their  fafh-day.' 

The  day  following  being  firft-day,  friends  had  a  meeting 
there,  to  which  we  went,  and  many  profefTors  came  to  it. 
I  declared  the  everlafting  goipel  amongft  them,  John  Claus 
interpreting.  They  were  all  very  civil,  and  heard  attentive- 
ly ;  and  when  the  meeting  was  done,  departed  peaceably, 
without  making  any  oppofition.  After  meeting  I  went  to 
HefTel  Jacobs's  again,  whither  after  awhile  came  a  Calvin- 
ifl,  to  aik  me  fome  queftions,  which  I  anfwered  to  his  fatif- 
faftion  ;  and  he  departed  friendly.  Soon  after  he  was  gone, 
a  preacher  of  the  Collegians  came  to  difcourfe  with  me,  who 
feemed  well  fatisfied  alfo,  and  we  parted  lovingly.  That 
evening  I  had  another  meeting  with  the  friends  there,  and 
next  morning  we  palTed  to  Leuwarden,  the  chief  city  in 
Friefland,  and  lodged  that  night  at  a  friend's  houie  whofe 
name  was  Sybrand  Dowes. 

Next  morning  early  we  pafled  to  Dockum,  and,  wajkinf* 
through  the  city,  took  boat  again  to  Strobus,  which  is  the 
utmoll  part  of  Friefland.  There  we  baited  at  a  commifla- 
ry's.  Then  taking  boat,  we  pafled  to  Groningen,  the  chief 
city  of  the  province  of  Groningland.  One  of  the  magif- 
tiates  of  that  city  came  with  us  from  Leuwarden,  with  whom 
I  had  fome  difcourfe  on  the  way ;  and  he  was  very  loving. 
We  walked  near  three  miles  through  the  city ;  then  took 
boat  for  Delfziel ;  and  pafling,  in  the  evening,  through  Ap- 
pingdalem,  where  had  been  a  great  horfe-fair  that  day,  there 
came  many  ofliccrs  ruftiing  into  the  boat,  who,  being  in 
drink,  were  very  rude.  I  exhorted  them  to  '  fear  the  Lord, 
'  and  beware  of  Solomon's  vanities.'  They  were  a  fort  of 
boifterous  fellows  ;  yet  ibrnewhat  more  civil  afterwards.  We 
landed  at  Delfziel  about  the  tenth  hour  at  night,  having 
travelled  much  about  fifty  Englifh  miles  that  day.  We 
went  to  an  inn  to  lodge  ;  and  as  we  paffed  through  the 
guards,   they  examined  John   Claus,  whether  I  was  not  a 


j677]  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  233 

militia  foldier  ?  He  told  them  I  was  not,  and  they  let  us 
pais  peaceably. 

Delfziel  ftands  on  the  river  Eems,  over  which  we  paffed 
next  day  to  Embden,  where  friends  had  been  cruelly  per- 
fecuted,  and  from  which  they  had  been  often  banifhed.  I 
went  to  an  inn,  where  I  dined  with  fome  men  that  under- 
ftood  Englifli,  with  whom  I  had  a  fine  time,  and  they  were 
loving.  Meanwhile  John  Claus  went  with  his  wife  to  her 
father's,  in  Embden ;  whither,  after  I  had  dined,  I  went 
alfo,  underflanding  the  old  man  was  defirous  to  fee  me. 
In  the  atternoon  John  Claus  and  I  walked  through  the 
city,  to  the  place  where  the  waggon  was  to  meet  us :  and 
while  we  tarried  for  it,  the  friends  that  were  in  the  city  came 
to  the  houfe  where  we  were,  and  we  had  a  little  meeting. 
When  the  meeting  was  over,  and  the  waggon  came  not,  we 
fent  to  know  the  reafon.  The  mafter  of  the  waggon  fent 
us  word,  he  durll  not  let  his  waggon  go;  for  the  bifhop  of 
Munfter's  foldiers  were  up  m  the  country,  and  he  was  afraid 
they  would  take  away  his  horfes.  Being  difappointed  of 
our  palFage,  we  returned  to  John  Claus's  father-in-law's 
houfe,  where  I  left  him,  and  went  to  my  inn  at  night. 

We  took  fliipping  next  day,  and  palled  about  fifteen 
miles  upon  the  nver  Eems,  to  a  market-town  in  Eafl  Frief- 
3and,  called  Leer,  where  lived  afnend  that  had  been  banifh- 
ed from  Embden.  When  we  had  vifited  him,  we  hired  a 
waggon,  and  paffed  to  a  garrifon-town  called  Strikehuyfen, 
where  the  guards  examined  us  ;  and  then  we  went  to  Deter- 
en,  where  hiring  another  waggon,  v/e  paffed  to  another  gar- 
rifon  town,  where  we  were  very  ftriftly  examined.  From 
thence  we  paffed  to  Apre,  in  the  king  of  Denmark's  coim- 
try,  where  we  lodged  that  night.  In  our  travelling  this  day, 
we  met  the  earl  of  Oldenburgh,  going  to  the  treaty  of  peace 
at  Lembachie. 

Next  day  we  paffed  to  Oldenburgh,  lately  a  great  and  fa- 
mous place,  but  then  burnt  down,  and  but  few  houfes  left 
ftanding  in  it.  At  this  place  we  hired  another  waggon,  and 
went  to  Delmenhurft,  where,  after  we  had  been  examined 
by  the  guards,  we  went  to  a  burgomafter's  to  lodge,  whole 
houfe  was  at  an  inn.  Tliere  bemg  many  people,  I  decla- 
red the  way  of  truth  to  him  and  them,  warning  them  of  the 
day  of  the  Lord  that  was  coming  upon  all  evil-doers. 

We  paffed  next  day  to  Bremen,  a  ftately  city  in  Germa- 
ny ;  and  from  thence,  after  a  double  examination,  we  went 
to  a  water  called  Overdeland,  and  there  took  boat  to  Filher- 

Y  o  L .    1 1 .  G  G 


254  GEORGE    PCX's    JOURNAL.  L  677 

holder  ;  where  finding  pretty  many  people  together,  I  de- 
clared the  way  of  God  to  them,  and  exhorted  them  '  to  fear 
'  the  Lord.'  There  we  took  waggon  again,  and  ;ravelled  in 
the  bifhop  of  Mu.ifter's  country,  to  Clofter-Seven.  Hav- 
ing no  incHnation  to  flay  there,  we  got  freih  horfes,  inteno- 
ing  to  travel  all  night.  Accordingly  we  went  a  little  way  ; 
but  it  quickly  grew  fo  dark,  and  rained  fo  hard,  that  we 
thought  beft  to  turn  back  again;  for  our  waggon  being 
open,  we  had  no  defence  againft  the  ram,  and  our  cloaths 
were  already  wet  with  the  rain  that  had  fallen  for  feveral 
days  before.  So  we  went  to  an  inn,  and  got  a  little  frefti 
flravv  ;  upon  which  we  lay  till  about  break  of  day,  then  fet 
out  nnd  travelled  to  the  city  of  Buxtehude. 

Tne  p  !ople  in  the  bifhop  of  Munfter's  country  were  very 
dark.  As  we  paffed  amongft  them,  I  preached  truth  to 
them,  warning  them  of  the  great  and  notable  day  of  the 
Lord,  exhorting  them  to  fobernefs,  and  to  mind  the  good 
Spirit  of  God  in  themfelves. 

It  was  on  a  firft-day  that  we  went  through  Buxtehude; 
and  witnout  the  walls  was  a  great  fair  of  fheep  and  geefe 
that  day.  We  flaid  a  little  to  refrefh  ourfelves,  and  went 
on  as  faft  as  we  could  to  Hamburgh,  partly  by  waggon,  and 
partly  by  water. 

We  got  to  Hamburgh  time  enough  to  have  a  meeting 
there  that  evening.  A  good  and  glorious  meeting  it  was. 
There  were,  amongft  others,  a  baptift  teacher  and  his  wife, 
and  a  great  man  of  Sweden  with  his  wife  ;  and  all  was  quiet, 
blefled  be  the  Lord,  whofe  power  was  exalted  over  all ! 
Yet  a  hard,  dark  place  this  is,  and  the  people  are  much  fhut 
tjp  from  truth. 

At  Hamburgh  was  a  woman  that  had  fpoken  againft  me 
in  John  Perrot's  time,  though  fhe  had  never  feen  me  till 
now.  She  had  been  troubled  for  it  ever  fmce,  and  now 
was  glad  of  an  opportunity  to  acknowledge  her  fault ; 
which  (he  \Qry  readily  did,  and  I  as  readily  and  freely  for- 
gave her. 

We  ilaid  that  night  at  Ham^urgh,  encouraging  and 
ftrengthening  the  friends  there  in  their  teftimony  to  the 
truth  ;  and  beiimes  next  morning  we  fet  forwards  towards 
FrcderickftcHli,  which  is  two  long  days  journey  from  Ham- 
burgh. We  went  the  firf{;-flay  to  Elmfiioorn,  where  we 
baited,  and  then  rode  through  a  garrifon-town  of  the  king 
of  Denmark's ;  and,  pafTing  bv  the  monument  of  the  earl  of 
Rantzow,  came  to  the  city  of  Itzeho,  where  we  lodged  that 


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night.  I  had  fome  fervice  in  the  evening,  among  the  peo- 
ple HI  the  inn,  whom  I  exhorted  to  fobernefs,  and  to  live 
in  the  fear  of  the  Lord.  Next  morning  we  travelled  to 
Hoghenhorn,  where  we  dined  at  an  mn  with  one  of  the  coun- 
cil of  Frederickftadt ;  to  whom,  and  to  the  reft  of  the  peo- 
ple prefent,  I  declared  the  truth,  with  which  they  feemed 
to  be  aftefted.  Then  travelling  on,  we  came  to  a  river  cal- 
led Eyder,  where  we  took  boat  and  went  to  Frederickftadt. 
We  went  to  Wilham  Paul's,  where  feveral  friends  came  to 
us,  for  there  is  a  pretty  company  of  friends  in  that  city. 
We  had  a  fine  refrefhing  meeting  together  that  evening, 
which  made  us  forget  our  wearinefs  ;  for  we  were  indeed 
very  weary,  having  travelled  hard  thofe  two  days,  and  were 
wet  through  our  cloaths,  having  had  much  rain  in  our 
open  waggons.  But  the  Lord  made  all  eafy  and  good  to  us; 
and  we  were  well  and  glad  to  fee  friends ;  blelfed  be  his 
hoiy  name  for  ever! 

This  city  is  in  the  duke  of  Holftein's  country,  who  would 
have  banifhed  friends  out  of  the  city  and  country,  and  fent 
to  the  magiftrates  of  the  city  to  do  it;  but  they  faid,  they 
would  lay  down  their  offices  rather  than  do  it ;  inafmuch  as 
themfelves  came  to  that  city  to  enjoy  the  liberty  of  their 
confciences.  Friends  ftill  enjoy  their  liberty  there,  and 
truth  and  they  are  of  good  report  amongft  the  people,  both 
in  city  and  country. 

On  firft-day  I  had  a  meeting  here,  to  which  many  people 
carne,  and  fome  rough  fpirits ;  but  the  power  of  the  Lord 
bound  them  down,  and  the  Seed  of  life  was  fet  over  all. 
While  I  was  here,  I  had  a  difcourfe  with  a  Levite  concern- 
ing the  coming  of  the  Meffiah  ;  and  he  was  much  confound- 
ed in  what  he  faid  ;  yet  he  carried  himfelf  lovingly,  and  in- 
vited me  to  his  houfe.  I  went,  and  there  difcourfed  with  a 
J.  w,  who  fhewed  me  their  Talmud,  and  many  other  Jew- 
ifh  books  :  but  they  are  very  dark,  and  do  not  underftand 
their  own  prophets. 

There  was  at  this  city  a  Baptift  teacher,  who  had  reproach- 
ed and  belied  friends  ;  wherefore  John  Claus  went,  with 
two  friends  of  the  town,  to  the  houfe  where  he  lodged, 
cleared  truth  and  friends  from  his  reproaches,  and  laid  his 
lies  and  flanders  upon  his  own  head,  to  his  Ihame. 

Before  we  left  this  place,   I    had  another  meeting   with 

friends  only,  wherein  I  laid  before  them  the  ufefulnefs  of  a 

monthly  meeting,  for  looking   after  the   poor,    and   taking 

care  that    marriages,  and  all  other  things  relating  to  the 

c  G  2 


236  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1677 

church,  were  performed  in  an  orderly  manner.  The  thing 
anfwered  the  witnefs  of  God  in  theii-  confciences,  fo  they 
readily  agreed  to  have  monthly  meetings  thenceforward 
amon^jfl  themfelves,  that  both  men  and  women  might  take 
care  of  the  outward  concerns  of  the  church. 

Feeling  my  fpirit  clear  of  that  place,  we  took  leave  of 
friends,  whom  we  left  in  good  order,  and  turned  back  for 
Hamburgh.  \Vhen  we  had  travelled  one  day's  journey, 
and  came  to  an  inn  at  night  to  lodge,  1  enquired  whether 
there  were  any  tender  people  in  the  town  that  feared  God, 
or  that  had  a  mind  to  difcourfe  of  the  things  of  God  ?  The 
inn-keeper  told  me,  there  were  few  fuch  m  that  town. 
Next  night  we  got  to  Hamburgh,  and  having  paifed  the 
guards,  went  to  a  friend's  houfe,  being  very  weary  ;  for  we 
had  been  up  tliofe  two  mornings  before  the  third  hour,  and 
had  tra\'elled  each  ddy  bard  and  late.  Here  we  met  with 
John  Hill,  an  Englilh  friend,  who  had  been  travelling  m 
Germ.any ;  and  bemg  in  a  fhip  bound  for  Amflerdam  that 
waited  for  a  wind,  he  had  lain  fick  on  board  about  two  weeks; 
and  now  hearing  that  I  was  in  the  country  got  ofF  from  the 
fliip,  and  came  hither  to  meet  me,  and  go  along  with  me. 

We  had  a  very  good  meeting  here,  and  very  peaceable. 
After  which  I  had  difcourfe  with  a  Swede,  an  eminent  man 
in  his  own  country  ;  who  having  been  banifhed  from  thence 
upon  the  account  of  his  religion,  was  come  to  Hamburgh, 
and  was  at  the  meeting  I  had  there  before.  When  I  had 
done  with  him,  I  had  another  difcourfe  with  a  Baptift.  con- 
cerning the  facraments,  fo  called :  in  both  which  I  had 
good  fervice,  having  opportunity  thereby  to  open  truth  un- 
to them. 

Bein^  clear  of  Hamburijh,  we  took  leave  of  friends  there, 
whom  we  left  well ;  and  taking  John  Hill  with  us,  pafled 
by  boat  to  a  city  in  the  duke  of  Lunenburgh's  country ; 
where,  after  we  were  examined  by  the  guards,  we  were  had 
to  the  main  guard,  and  there  examined  more  flri6lly ;  but 
after  they  found  we  were  not  foldiers,  they  were  civil  to  u^, 
and  let  us  pafs.  In  the  afternoon  we  travelled  by  waggon, 
and  the  waters  being  much  out,  by  reafon  of  the  great  rains 
that  had  fallen,  when  it  drew  towards  night  we  hired  a  boy 
to  guide  us  through  a  great  water.  When  we  came  to  36 
tlie  water  was  fo  deep,  before  xve  could  come  at  the  bridge, 
th.\t  the  waggoner  was  fain  to  wade,  and  I  drove  the  wag- 
gon. When  we  were  come  upon  the  bridge,  the  horfes 
broke  part  of  it  down,  and  one  of  them  fell  nito  the  water, 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  237 

the  waggon  {landing  upon  that  part  of  the  bridge  which 
remained  unbroken.  It  was  the  Lord's  mercy  to  us,  that 
the  waggon  did  not  run  into  the  brook.  When  they  had 
got  the  horfe  out,  he  lay  awhile  as  if  he  had  been  dead  ; 
but  at  length  they  got  him  up,  put  him  to  the  waggon 
again,  laid  the  planks  right,  and  then,  through  the  goodncfs 
of  the  Lord  to  us,  we  got  fafe  over. 

After  this  we  came  to  another  water,  which  finding  to  be 
very  deep,  and  it  being  in  the  night,  we  hired  two  men  to 
help  us  through.  Thefe  men  put  cords  to  the  waggon  to 
hold  it  by,  that  the  force  of  the  water  might  not  drive  it 
behde  the  way.  But  when  we  came  into  it,  the  ftream  was 
fo  llrong  it  took  one  of  the  horfes  off  his  legs,  and  was  car- 
rying him  down  the  flream ;  which  I  feeing,  called  to  the 
waggoner  to  pluck  him  to  him  by  his  reins,  which  he  did, 
and  the  horfe  recovered  his  legs,  and  with  much  difficulty 
we  got  over  the  bridge,  and  went  to  Bormer-haven,  the 
town  where  the  waggoner  lived.  It  was  the  laft  day  of  the 
fixth  month  that  we  efcaped  thefe  dangers,  and  being  about 
the  eleventh  hour  in  the  night  when  we  came  in  here,  we 
got  fome  frefh  ftraw,  and  lay  upon  it  till  about  four  in  the 
morni-ng.  Then  getting  up,  we  fet  forward  again  towards 
Bremen,  going  part  of  the  way  by  waggon,  and  part  by- 
boat.  In  the  way  I  had  good  opportunities  to  pubhlh 
truth,  efp jcially  at  a  market-town  where  we  flaid  to  change 
our  padage;  where  I  declared  the  truth  to  the  people, 
warning  them  of  the  day  of  the  Lord  that  was  coming  upon 
all  fl^fh:  and  exhortinij  them  to  rijThteoufnefs.  telling  them, 
'  that  God  was  come  to  teach  his  people  himfelf,'  and  that 
they  fhould  turn  to  the  Lord,  and  hearken  to  the  teachings 
of  his  Spirit  in  their  own  hearts. 

At  Bremen  we  were  examined,  and  after  went  to  an  inn, 
and  ftaid  till  another  waggon  was  provided  to  carry  us  fur- 
ther. Though  I  felt  the  Lord's  power  was  over  the  city, 
and  kept  the  wicked  and  unruly  fpirits  down,  yet  my  Ipirit 
fuffc^rtd  much  in  this  place  for  the  people's  fake.  When 
our  waggon  was  ready  we  left  Bremen,  and  travelled  to  Ke- 
by,  where  we  lodged  at  an  inn,  and  early  next  morning  fet 
out  for  OJdenburgh.  It  was  a  lamentahle  hght  to  Ice  fo 
greit  and  brave  a  citv  burnt  down.  We  went  to  an  inn, 
and  though  it  was  firll-day  the  foldicrs  were  drinking,  and 
playing  at  fliovel- board,  and  at  thofc  fev.'  houfes  that  were 
left,  the  Ihops  were  open,  and  the  people  trading  one  with 
another.     I  was  moved  to  declare  the  truth  among  thcni, 


238  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [.677 

and  warn  them  of  the  judgments  of  God;  and  though  they 
heard  me  quietly,  and  were  civil  towards  me,  yet  I  was  bur- 
thened  with  their  wickednefs.  Many  times  in  mornings, 
and  at  noons  and  nights,  at  the  inns,  and  on  the  ways,  as  I 
travelled,  I  fpoke  to  the  people,  preachmg  the  truth  to 
them,  warning  them  of  the  day  of  the  Lord,  and  exhorting 
them  to  turn  to  the  light  and  Spirit  of  God  in  themfelves, 
that  thereby  they  might  be  led  out  of  evil. 

Next  day,  palling  through  many  great  waters,  we 
came  to  Leer,  and  the  day  following  to  Embden,  where 
John  Claus's  wife's  father  lived ;  at  whofe  houfe,  when  we 
went  into  Germany,  we  left  a  young  man  lick,  who  travel- 
led with  me,  and  ufed  to  write  for  me;  whom  now  we  found 
pretty  well  recovered.  John  Glaus  ivent  to  h:s  father-in- 
law's,  John  Hill  and  I  to  an  inn,  where  we  dined.  After 
dinner  we  went  alfo  to  John  Claus's  father's,  and  had  a 
good  meeting  there  in  the  evening. 

The  day  following  we  took  fhipping  at  Embden,  and 
paffed  to  Dclfziel,  and  went  to  an  inn,  where  a  friend  cpune 
to  us  that  then  lived  in  Delfziel,  having  been  often  banifhed 
Irom  Embden  :  he  was  a  goldfmith  by  trade,  and  had  a 
houfe  and  lliop  in  Embden,  and  ftill  as  they  banifhed  him 
he  went  again.  Then  they  imprifoned  him,  fed  him  with 
bread  and  water,  and  at  length  took  his  goods  from  him, 
and  banifhed  him,  his  wife  and  children,  leaving  them  nei- 
ther place  to  come  to,  nor  any  thing  to  fubfill  on.  We 
comforted  and  encouraged  him  in  the  Lord,  exhorting  him 
to  be  faithful,  and  (land  fteadfafl  in  the  teftimony  committed 
to  him.  When  we  had  taken  leave  of  him,  we  pafTed  the 
fame  day  to  Groningen,  where  we  met  with  Cornelms  An- 
dries,  a  friend,  that  had  alfo  fuffered  much  by  imprifon- 
ment  and  banifliment  at  Embden.  We  went  with  him  to 
his  houfe.  and  the  next  day  we  had  a  good  meeting  in  that 
c;ty,  to  which  feveral  profefibrs  came,  who  were  very  peace- 
able and  attentive.  After  meeting  we  pafTed  by  boat  to  Stro- 
bus,  and  Dockum.  where  we  lodged  that  night  at  an  inn. 
Taking  boat  again  next  morning,  we  palTed  to  Leu  warden, 
the  chief  city  of  Friefland,  where  I  found  my  daughter 
Yeom:ms,  who  was  come  from  Amfterdam  thither  to  meet 
mc.  That  day  we  had  a  precious  meeting  at  Sybrand 
Dowes's  houfe.  After  the  meeting  I  had  difcourfe  with 
fome  that  were  at  the  ineeting,  who  had  been  formerly  con- 
vinced of  truth ;  but  were  not  come  into  obedience  to  it« 


1677]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  239 

We  ftaid  there  that  night;  but  John  Hill  left  us,  and  went 
that  day  to  Harlingen.  and  fo  to  Amfterdam. 

Next  day  wc  paifcd  down  the  river  to  the  lake  of  Hem- 
pen-Sarmer,  and  thence  by  the  lake  Lugmer,  and  fo  to  a 
town  called  Anderigo ;  from  whence  failing  through  the 
lake  Whifpool,  we  came  to  Gardick  within  night.  We 
lodged  at  an  inn ;  and  the  next  day,  being  firll-day,  we 
were  at  friends  meeting  there,  which  was  very  large,  many 
of  the  town's-people  coming  in.  I  declared  the  truth  in  the 
power  of  the  Lord,  that  was  upon  me ;  which  tendered  the 
people,  and  they  were  very  fober.  After  the  meeting  we 
flaid  to  refrefh  ourfelves,  and  went  to  take  boat  again  ;  but 
the  people  obferving  us,  gathered  together  at  a  bridge  we 
were  to  pafs,  and  there  I  declared  the  way  of  life  and  falva- 
tion  unto  them,  and  they  were  very  attentive  and  civil. 

We  went  back  that  evening  to  Leuwarden,  being  twenty- 
feven  miles ;  but  before  we  could  reach  it,  the  gates  were 
fhut  and  the  bridges  drawn  up,  fo  that  we  could  not  get 
into  the  city,  but  were  fain  to  lie  in  the  boat  all  night ;  and 
a  man  being  killed  in  the  city  that  night,  it  was  late  before 
the  gates  were  opened.  When  we  could  get  in,  we  went 
to  a  friend's  houfe,  where  we  ftaid  awhile ;  then  taking 
boat,  we  paffed  through  Franeker  to  Harlingen,  to  HafTel 
Jacobs's,  where  we  found  feveral  Dutch  friends  come  to  be 
at  the  meeting  there  next  day.  William  Penn,  returning 
two  or  three  days  before  out  of  Germany,  had  been  at  a 
large  meeting  at  Amfterdam  on  firft-day  ;  and  after  meet- 
ing, underftanding  I  was  at  Harlingen,  came  thither  to  me. 

Next  day  was  the  monthly  meeting  for  men  and  vvom.eii, 
to  which  we  went.  It  was  large  and  good.  And  there  it 
was  agreed,  '  a  meeting  Ihould  be  held  there  once  a  month, 

*  both  for  the  men  and  for  the  women,   to  take  care  of  the 

*  outward  concerns  of  the  church.' 

In  the  afternoon  we  had  a  publick  meeting,  to  which 
came  people  of  feveral  forts,  Socinians,  Baptifts,  Luther- 
ans, &c.  amongft  whom  vvas  a  doftor  of  phyfick  and  a 
prieft.  After  I  had  declared  the  truth  pretty  largely,  open- 
ing the  happy  ftate  that  man  and  woman  were  in  whilft 
they  kept  under  God's  teaching,  and  abode  in  paradife; 
and  the  wo  and  mifery  that  came  upon  them  when  they 
went  from  God's  teaching,  hearkened  to  the  fcrpcnt's,  trarif- 
grefled  God's  command,  and  were  driven  out  of  the  para- 
dife of  God;  and  fet  forth  the  way  whereby  man  and  wo- 
man might  come  into  that  happy  ftate  again  :   the  prieil,  an 


240  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1677 

ancient  grave  man,  flood  up  juft  as  I  had  done  fpeaking, 
and,  putting  oflF  his  hat,  faid,  '  I  pray  God  to  profper  and 
«  confirm  that  doclrine,  for  it  is  truth,  and  I  have  nothing 
•  againft  it.'  He  would  wilhngly  have  ftaid  till  the  meeting 
had  been  ended,  but  being  to  preach  that  evening,  he 
could  not  flay  longer,  the  time  for  his  own  worfhip  being 
come.  Wherefore,  when  he  had  made  confelfion  of  the 
truth,  he  haftcned  away,  that  he  might  come  again ;  and 
did  come,  it  feems,  to  the  meeting-place,  but  the  meeting 
was  ended  firfl;.  After  which  we  went  to  Haflfel  Jacobs's, 
where  I  had  a  meeting  with  friends,  and  the  doftor  of  phy- 
lick  came  thither  to  difcourfe  with  William  Penn,  who  had 
a  good  opportunity  to  open  truth  to  him.  By  this  doftor 
the  priefl  fent  his  love  to  me,  wifhing  him  to  tell  me,  that 
he  had  left  preaching  that  evening  half  an  hour  fooner  than 
he  ufed  to  do,  that  he  might  come  to  our  meeting  agsin  to 
hear  more  of  that  good  doftrine.  I  heard  afterwards,  that 
his  hearers  queflioned  him  for  what  he  had  laid  in  our  meet- 
ing ;  and  that,  he  Handing  by  his  words,  they  had  com- 
plained of  him  for  it  to  the  other  priefts  of  the  city,  who 
called  him  to  account  about  it ;  but  the  refult  I  could  not 
learn. 

Early  next  morning  William  Penn,  taking  John  Claus 
with  him,  paffed  from  Harlingen  for  Leuwarden,  where  he 
had  appointed  a  meeting,  intending  to  travel  into  fome 
other  parts  of  Germany  to  vilit  a  tender  people  there.  I, 
with  thofe  friends  that  were  with  me,  took  fhip  the  fame 
day  for  Amfterdam,  where  we  arrived  a  little  after  mid- 
night ;  but  the  gates  being  Ihut,  we  lay  on  board  till  morn- 
ing:  then  went  to  Gertrude  Dirick  Niefon's,  where  many 
friends  came  to  fee  us,  being  glad  of  our  fafe  return.  Next 
day,  feeling  a  concern  upon  my  mind,  with  relation  to  thofe 
leducing  fpirits  that  made  divifion  among  friends,  and  being 
fenfible  that  they  endeavoured  to  infinuate  themfelves  into 
the  affedionate  part,  I  was  moved  to  write  a  few  lines  to 
friends  concerning  them,  as  foUoweth  : 


*  A    LL  thefe  that  f-t  themfelves  up  in 

*  S\  the  people,  fct   themfelves   up,    an( 


the  affc6lions  of 
id  the  afPeftions 
'  of  the  people,  and  not  Chrifl.  But  friends,  your  peace- 
'  able  habitation  in  the  truth,  which  is  everlafting,  and 
'  changes  not,   will  outiafl:  all  the  habitations  of  thofe  that 

•  are  out  of  the  truth,    although  they  be  never  fo  full  of 

•  words.     So  thofe  that  are  fu  keen  for  J.  ii.  and  J,  W.  let 


i6tj']  GEORGE    FOX'S    journal.  241 

*  thern  take  them,  and  the  feparation ;  and  you  that  have 
'  given  your  tefthnony  againft  that  fpirit,  ftand  in  your 
'  teftimony,  till  they  anfwer  by  condemnation,.  Do  not 
'  ftrive,  nor  make  bargains  with  that  which  is  out  of  the 
'  truth ;  nor  fave  that  alive  to  be  a  lacrifice  for  God,  which 
'  Ihould  be  flain,  left  you  lofe  your  kingdom.  * 

'  G.  F/ 
'  Amfterdam,  the  14th  of 
'  the  7th  month,  1677.' 

The  firft-day  following,  I  was  at  friends  meeting  at  Am- 
fterdam, to  which  many  people  came,  and  were  very  civil 
and  attentive,  hearing  truth  declared  feveral  hours.  John 
RoelofFs  interpreted  for  me. 

Before  this  feveral  of  the  friends  that  cam.e  over  with  me 
were  returned  to  England  again,  as  Robert  Barclay,  George 
Keith's  wife,  and  others ;  and  now  my  daughter  Yeomans 
went  back  alfo :  fo  that  I  was  left  alone  at  Amfterdam. 
While  I  was  there,  it  came  upon  me  to  vifit  my  fuff^ering 
friends  at  Dantzick  with  a  few  lines,  to  encourage  and 
ftrengthen  them  in  their  fuff^erings,  as  followeth : 

'Dear  friends, 

*  'TpO  whom  is  my  love  in  the  Lord's  truth,  that  is  over 
'  X  all,  and  by  which  all  God's  people  are  made  free  men 
'  and  women,  being  thereby  fet  free  from  him  who  is  out  of 
'  the  truth  ;   that  walking  in  the  truth,  they  may  anfvoer  the 

*  witnefs  of  God  in  all  people  :  which  truth  all  mutt  come 
'  to,  if  they  be  made  free.  Therefore  be  faithful  unto  what 
'  the  Lord  manifefts  unto  you.  I  am  glad  the  Lord  hath^ 
'  witneftes  in  that  city,  to  ftand  for  his  glory  and  name,  and 
'  for  Chrift  |efus,  the  great  prophet,  whom  God  hath  railed 

'  up,  who  is  to  be  heard  in  all  things  ;  fo  that  ye  need  none 
'  of  the  prophets  which  men  have  raifed  up.  Therefore 
'  ftand  faithful  to  Chrift  Jefus,  your  Shepherd,  that  he  may 
'  feed  you  ;  hear  his  voice,  and  follow  him,  who  has  laid 
'  down  his  life  for  you  ;  but  follow  none  of  the  ihepherds 
'  and  hirelings  that  are  made  by  men,  though  they  may  be 
'  angry  becaufe  ye  will  not  follow  them  to  their  dry  and  bar- 
'  ren  mountains,  who  have  been  and  are  the  thieves,  perfe- 
'  cutors,  and  robbers,  that  climb  up  another  way  than  by 
^  Chrift.  Set  up  Chrift  to  be  your  counfeilor  and  leader, 
'  and  then  ye  will  have  no  need  of  any  of  the  counlellors 
'  and  leaders  of  the  world  ;  for  Chrift  is  luificienr,  whom 
Vol.   IL  ii  ii 


:^42  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1677 

'  God  has  given  you.  Set  up  Chrift  Jefus  to  be  your 
'  bifbop   and    overfeer,    who  is   fufficient   to  overlee   you, 

*  that  you  go  not  aflray  from  God  ;  by  which  ye  may  fee 

*  over  all  the  hireling-overfeers  made  by  men,  which  keep 
'  the  people,  that  they  do  not  go  from  the  rudiments,  forma- 

*  lities,  fafhions,  and  cuftoms  of  the  world,  which  hath  been 
'  and  is  their  work.      I  am  glad  that  ye  are  come  to  own 

*  Chrift:  Jefus,  your  high  prieft,  who  is  holy,  harmlefs,  fepa- 
'  rate  from  fmners,  and  made  higher  than  the  heavens,  as  the 
'  church  and  the  apoftle  did  own  him  in  their  days,  Heb. 

*  vii.  who  is  the  high  prieft  over  the  houfehold  of  faith  ; 

*  which  faith  Chrift  Jefus  is  the  author  and  iiniftier  of;   and 

*  this  do  all  the  children  of  the  new  covenant  witnefs,  who 

*  walk  in  the  new  and  living  way.  Therefore  my  defire  is, 
'  that  ye  all  may  be  fteadfalt,  whether  in  bonds  or  out,  in 

*  the  faith  of  Chrift  Jefus,  which  is  the  gift  of  God;  by 

*  which  faith  the  valiants  overcame  the  devil  and  all  their 
'  enemies ;  in  which  faith  they  had  vi6lory  and  accefs  to 

*  God,  and  in  that  was  their  unity ;  which  myftery  of  faith 
'  is  held  in  a  pure  confcience,  hidden  from  the  world.     I 

*  do  believe,  that  your  imprifonments  and  fufferings  in  that 

*  place  will  be  for  good  in  the  end  (as  it  hath  been  in  other 

*  places)  ye  ftanding  faithful  to  the  Lord,  who  is  all-fuffici- 
"  ent.  For  your  fufferings  and  trials  will  try  their  teachers 
'  and  religions,  churches  and  worlhips,  and  make  manifeft 
'  what  birth  they  are  of;  even  that  which  perfecutes  him 
'  that  is  born  of  the  Spirit :  for  ye  know  that  there  is  no  fal- 

*  vation  by  any  other  name  under  the  whole  heaven,  but  by 
'  the  name  of  Jefus  ;  therefore  it  is  time  to  leave  them,  when 
'  there  is  no  falvation  by  or  in  any  of  them.  Now,  friends, 
'  1  defire  that  you  would  take  a  lift  of  the  names  of  all  thofe 
'  that  belong  to  the  king  of  Poland,  where  they  live,  and 
'  how  ye  may  fend  books  and  epiftles  to  them,  and  keep  a 

*  correfpondence  with  them  ;  alfo  the  name  of  the  bifhop  or 
'  cardinal  that  I  heard  was  with  you  ;  and  if  ye  can  get  any 
'  that  belong  to  the  king  to  come  to  vifit  the  prifoners,  that 
'  they  may  inform  the  king  of  their  cruel  fufferings,     Alfo 

*  I  defire  you  to  get  as  many  books  of  mine  as  you  can  dif- 
"  pole  of.  that  fet  forth  your  fufferings,  and  the  cruelty  of 
'  the  magiftratcs  of  Dantzick ;  and  give  them  to  the  king, 
'  his  council,  attendants,  and  biftiops.  And  I'ome  of  the 
'  women  may  fpeak  to  the  queen,  if  they  can,  tliat  ih'c  may 
'  fignify  to  the  king   their  cruel  fuiFerings  :  and  efpscialiy 

*  fome  of  ihc  fulRrers  wives,  if  there  bs  any  of  capacity  to 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  243 

*  do  it.     You  may  likewife  give  his  attendants  any  other 

*  friends  books  ;  what  books  ye  lack,  fend  for  to  Amflerdam, 

*  where  ye  may  be  furnifhed  with  them,  to  anfwer  every  ten- 

*  der  defirer,  and  inquiring  mind  after  the  Lord.  So  let  all 
'  your  minds  be  bended  with  the   Lord's  power,  to  fpread 

*  his  truth  abroad ;  and  where  ye  hear  of  any,  or  have  any 

*  correfpondence  in  trading  with  any  fober  people,  far  or 
'  near,  fend  them  books,  that  their  underftandings  may  be 

*  opened  after  the  Lord.  The  Lord  God  Almighty  pre- 
'  ferve  you !      To  his  prote6lion,  in  his  eternal  power,  do  I 

*  commend  you  all,  in  bonds  or  at  liberty,  with  my  love 

*  to    you  in    the    everlafting    feed  of    God   Chrifl    Jefus, 

*  who  bruifes  the  head  of  the  ferpent,  that  makes  you  to 
'  fufFer.  Chrifl  is  over  him,  and  will  be  when  he  is  gone, 
'  who  is  Firft  and  Laft,  over  all,  from  everlafting  to  ever- 

*  lafting,  in  whom  ye  have  life,  knowledge,  wiidom,  and 
'  falvation,  and  through  him  live  to  the  praife  and  glory  of 

*  God,  who  is  bleffed  for  evermore,  Amen. 

*  G.  F.' 
*  Amfterdam,  the  18th  of  the  7th 
*  month,  1677,  Englifti  ftyle.' 

The  next  day,  the  fourth  of  the  week  and  the  nineteenth 
of  the  month,  I  had  a  large  meeting  at  Amflerdam,  many 
profelTors  being  at  it,  and  truth  was  largely  opened  to  them, 
in  the  demonftration  of  the  heavenly  power.  The  day 
following  I  went  by  boat,  many  friends  going  with  me,  to 
Landfmeer  in  Waterland  (a  town  in  which,  they  fay,  there 
are  above  an  hundred  bridges)  where  I  had  a  very  good 
meeting,  to  which  feveral  profeffors  came.  After  the  meet- 
ing I  returned  with  friends  to  Amfterdam  again,  where  I 
ftaid  till  the  firft-day  following,  and  went  to  their  meeting 
which  was  large.  Many  pro^ffors  of  feveral  forts  were  at 
it,  and  heard  the  truth  declared  with  great  attention. 

I  tarried  next  day,  and  the  night  following  had  a  great 
exercife  upon  my  fpirit  concerning  that  loofe  fpirit  that  was 
run  into  ftrife  and  contention  among  friends,  and  had  drawn 
fome  after  it  into  divifion  and  feparation ;  the  way,  work, 
and  end  whereof  the  Lord  opened  to  me ;  wherefore,  feeling 
the  motion  of  life  upon  me,  I  got  up  in  the  morning  and 
wrote  the  following  epiftle  to  friends. 

H  H  3 


244  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1677 

'  My  dear  friends, 
«  TZ  EEP  your  firft  love  in  the  truth,  power,  and  feed  of 

*  J\.  life  in  Chrift  Jefus;  for  this  lafl;  night,  as  I  was  ly- 

*  ing  in  my  bed  at  Amfterdam,   I  had  a  great  travail  in  the 

*  holy  feed  of  life  and  peace,  and  my  fpirit  was  troubled  with 

*  that  fpirit  of  ftrife  and  feparation.      I  faw  it  was  a  deftroy- 

*  in<T  fpirit,  and  did  leek  not  only  to  get  over  the  feed,  but 

*  to  deilroy  it,  and  to  cat  out  the  minds  of  the  people  from 

*  it  by  flrife  and  contention  ;  and  under  pretence  of  ftand- 
'  ing  for  the  ancient  truth,  its  work  is  to  root  it  out  and  def- 

*  troy  the  appearance  of  it,  to  fet  up  itfelf.      It  is  a  creeping 

*  fpirit,  feeking  whom  it  can  get  into  ;  and  what  it  cannot 

*  do  itfelf  it  flirreth  up  others  to  do,  and  fetteth  their  Ipirits 

*  on    float,  with   the  dark   wifdom   to  deftroy   the  fimple. 

*  This  fpirit  is  managed  by  the  prince  of  the  air,  and  lead- 

*  eth  fome  to  do  things  they  v.'ould  have  been  afhamed   to 

*  have  done,  as   men,  which  doth  unman  them  ;  and  they 

*  would   not  have  fuffered  them,  if  they   had   kept   to    the 

*  tender  principle  of  God,  which  kadeth  to  peace.     It  is  a 

*  defpifing,  backbiting,  fecret-whifpering   fpirit,  a  fower  of 

*  dilfenfion,  and  a  taker  of  advantage  of  all  prejudiced  fpir 
'  rits  that  are  difobedient  to  their  firft  principle  and  love  and 

*  truth,  and  begetteth  into  hatred  ;  fo  it  begetteth    ail  into 

*  that  fpirit,  whofe  work  is  to  deftroy  both  the  good  within 

*  and  the  good  order  without.      Nay,  it  would,  if  it  could, 

*  deftroy  the  government  of  Chrift  and  the  order  of  the  gof- 

*  pel,  to  fet  up  its  own  ivill  and  fpirit,  which  is  not  of  God; 

*  and,  under  pretence  of  crying  down  man,  is  fetting   up 

*  man,  and  gathering  into  a  feparation  of  difobedient  men, 

*  who  float  above  their  conditions.     This  fpirit,  which  nei- 

*  thev  Hveth  in  the  truth  nor  its  order,  but  oppofeth  them 

*  that  do,   I  cannot  exprefs  it  as  I  fee  it  and  its  work,  whofe 

*  end  will  be  accordingly.  Therefore,  friends,  I  am  to 
'  warn  you  all  that  have  not  loft  your  fimplicity,  not   to 

*  touch  it,  nor  to  have  any  unity  with  it,  left  you  be  defil- 

*  ed,  lofe  your  conditions  of  your  eternal  eftate,  gnd  your 

*  everlafting  portion  ;  and  that  your  inward  man,  which  is 
'after  God,  rnay  be  preferved,  and  Chrift  may  reign  in  all 

*  your  hearts.      And  they  that  are  joined  with  them,  it  will 

*  be  very  hard  for  them  ever  to  come  down  to  truth  in  them- 
'  felves,  and  to  fee  their  own  conditions,  and  to  have  that 
'  fpirit  of  ftrife  and  contention  (which  eateth  as  a  canker) 
^  brought  down  in  them  :  which  is  carnal,  and  flayeth  the 
'  tender  babe,  v/hich  was  once  begotten  in  themfelves.    Tli^e 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  245' 

*  Philiftine  is  got  up  in  them,  that  ftoppeth  the  wells  and 

*  fprings,  maketha  great  buttle,  and  is  crying  up  men,  and 

*  pleading  for  them  inilead  of  Chrift.  So,  friends,  llrive 
'  not  with  them,  but  let  thofe  take  them  that  cry  them  up. 
'  Keep  you  to  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift  with  his  light,  that 
'  Cometh  from  him,  that  he  may  be  your  Lord,  and  ye  in 

*  him  may  be  all  in  unity,  in  one  light,  life,  power,  and 
'  dominion  in  Chrift,  your  head.  The  God  of  Peace  and 
'  Power  preferve  you  all  in  Chrift  Jefus  your  Saviour,  and 

*  out  of  and  from  that  mifchievous  fpirit  which  is  idle  and 
'  flothful,  as   to  the  work  of  the  Power,   Spirit,  and  Light 

*  of  God  and  Chrift.      Its  very  a6t  worketh  ftrife  and  dif- 

*  turbance  againft  the  peace  of  the  church  of  Chrift.  It 
'  thinks  in  its  wilfulnefs,  ftubbornnefs,  and  unrulmefs  to  fet 

*  up  itfelf,  and  in  that  to  have  peace;  but  deftruftion  will 

*  be  the  end  of  it  :  and  it  is  fealed  for  the  fire   and  eternal 

*  judgment.  Therefore  let  Chrift  the  Seed  be  the  head 
'  and  crown  of  every  one  of  you,  that  nothing  may  be  be- 
'  tween  you  and  the  Lord  God.     Be  not  deceived  v/ith  vain, 

*  feigned,  or  rough  words  :  for  Satan  is  transformmg  him- 

*  felf  as  an  Angel  of  Light  to  deceive,  but  God's  founda- 

*  tion   ftandeth    fure,  and   God  knoweth   who  are  his,  and 

*  will   preferve   his  upon  the  rock   and   foundation  of  life, 

*  in  his  peaceable  truth  and  habitation,  that  in   the   fame 

*  they  may  grov/.      Keep  out  of  ftrife  and  contention  with  it, 

*  after  ye   have  borne  your  teftimony  in  the  Lord's  power 

*  and  truth  againft  it,  then  keep  in  the  truth  ;  for  it  hath  a 

*  life  in  fcribbHng,  ftrife,  and  jangling,  becaufe  it  would  en- 

*  large  its  hell,  and  bring  others  into  its  mifery  with  the 
'  airy  power,  and  would  get  power  over  the  good,  and  dif- 
'  join  people  from  it,  and  fo  commit  rapes  upon  the  fimpli- 

*  city  by  its  fubtilty.     But  I  do  believe   the  Lord  will  de- 

*  fend  his  people,  though  he  may  try  them  and  exercife 
'  them  with  this  fpirit  for  a  time,  as  he  hath  done  in  days 
'  paft,  in  other  vell'els  it  hath  made  ufe  of  as  it  doth  of  thefe 

*  now,  who  have  a   more  feeming   fair    outlide,    but  foul, 

*  rough,  and  rugged  enough  within,  againft  the  Seed  Chrift, 

*  as  ever  were  the  Pharifecs  to  deftroy  it.  They,  under  a 
'  pretence  of  preaching  Chrift,  are  deftroycrs  and  crucifiers 
'  of  him,  and  killers  cf  the  juft,  not  only  in  thetnftlves, 
'  but  are  endeavouring  with  ail  their  might  to  deftroy  it  in 
'  others  where  it   is  born.      Pharaoh   and    Herod    flay   the 

*  young  Jews  in  the  fpirit  as  the  old  did  :  I  fjel  it  worrying 
^  of  them.     That  is  got  up  to  be  king,  which  knew  not  fuf- 


246  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  I167J 

*  fering  Jofeph.     But  God  will  plague  him,  and  the   Seed 

*  will   have  more  reft,  and  be  better  entertained  in  Egypt 

*  than  under  Herod,  into  whom  old  Pharaoh's  fpirit  is  en- 
'  tered.  He  that  hath  an  ear  to  hear,  let  him  hear,  and  an 
'  eye  to  fee,  let  him  fee  how  this  fpirit  hath  transformed  in 
'  all  ages  againft  the  juft  and  righteous  ;  but  mark  what  hath 
"^  been  its  end.     The  Seed  reigneth ;  glory  to  the  Lord  God 

*  over  all  for  ever  !  His  truth  fpreadeth,  and  friends  here 
'  are  in  unity  and  peace,  and  of  good  report,  anfwering  the 
'  good  or  that  of  God  in  people.     My  dehres   are,  that  ail 

*  God's  people  may  do  the  fame  in  all  places,  that  the  Lord 
'  may  be  glorified  in  their  bringing  forth  much  fruit  that  is 
'  heavenly  and  fpiritual.     Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
•  Amfterdam,  the  25th  of  the 
'  7th  month,   1677.' 

After  I  had  given  forth  the  foregoing  epiftle,  whereby  my 
fpirit  was  in  fome  meafure  eafed  of  the  weight  that  lay  upon 
it,  I  went  in  the  afternoon  to  the  monthly  meeting  of  friends 
at  Amfterdam  ;  where  the  Lord  was  prefent  with  us,  and  re- 
frefhed  our  fpirits  together  in  himfelf. 

I  thought  to  have  gone  next  day  to  Harlem :  but  there 
being  a  faft  appointed  to  be  kept  that  day,  I  was  flopped  in 
my  fpirit,  and  moved  to  ftay  at  friends  meeting  at  Amfter- 
dam. We  had  a  very  large  meeting,  a  great  concourfe  of 
people  coming  to  it,  and  amongft  them  many  great  perfcns. 
The  Lord's  power  was  over  the  meeting,  in  the  openings 
whereof  I  was  moved  to  declare  to  the  people,  '  That  no 

*  man  by  all  his  wit  and  ftudy,  nor  by  reading  hiftory  in  his 
'  own  will,  could  declare  or  know  the  generation  of  Chrift, 
^  who  was  not  begotten  by  the  will  of  man,  but  by  the  will 

*  of  God.     After  I  had  largely  opened  this,  I  Ihewed  them 

*  the  difference  between    the   true   faft   and   the  falfe,  ma- 

*  nifcftmg  that  the  profeffed   Chriftians,  Jews,   and  Turks, 

*  were  out  of  the  true  faft,  and  fafted  for  ftrife  and  debate, 
'  being  under  the  band  and  fifts  of  iniquity  and  oppreflion, 
'  wherewith  they  were  fmiting  one  another;    but  the  pure 

*  hands  were  not  lifted  up  to  God.      And  though  they  did 

*  all  appear  to  men  to  faft,  and  did  hang  down  their  heads 

*  for  a  day  like  a  bulrulh,  yet  that  was  not  the  faft  which 
'  God  did  accept;  but  in  thatilate  all  their  bones  were  dry, 
'  and  when  tht'v  called  upon  the  Lord  he  did  not  anfwer 
'  them,  ncjrher  did  their  health  grow;   for  they  kept  their 


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*  own  faft,  and  not  the  Lord's.  I  exhorted  them  to  keep 
'  the  Lord's  faft,  which  was  to  faft  from  fm  and  iniquity, 
'  ftrife  and  debate,  violence  and  oppreflion,  and  to  abftam 

*  from  every  appearance  of  evil.'  Thefe  things  were  open- 
ed to  the  aftonilliraent  of  the  fafters,  and  the  meeting  ended 
peaceably  and  well. 

I  went  to  Harlem  the  day  following,  having  before  ap- 
pointed a  meeting.  Peter  Hendricks  and  Gertrude  Dirick 
Niefon  went  with  me,  and  a  blefled  meeting  we  had.  There 
were  profeifors  of  feveral  forts,  and  a  prieft  of  the  Lutherans, 
who  fat  very  attentive  for  feveral  hours  while  i  declared  the 
truth,  Gertrude  interpreting.  When  the  meeting  was  done, 
the  prieft  faid,  '  He  had  heard  nothing  but  what  was  ac- 
'  cording  to  the  word  of  God,  and  defned  the  bleffing  of 

*  the  Lord  might  reft  upon  us  and  our  aifemblies.'  Others 
alio  confeifed  to  the  truth,  faying,  '  They  had  never  heard 
'  things  fo  plainly  opened  to  their  underltandings  before.* 

We  ftaid  that  night  at  Harlem  at  a  friend's  houfe,  whofe 
name  was  Dirick  Klaffen;  and  returning  next  day  to  Amfter- 
dam,  went  to  Gertrude's  houfe;  where  we  had  not  been  long 
before  a  prieft  of  great  note,  who  had  formerly  belonged  to 
the  emperor  of  Germany,  and  another  German  prieft,  came, 
defiring  to  have  fome  conference  with  me.  I  took  the  op- 
portunity to  declare  the  way  of  truth,  opening  unto  them 
how  they  might  come  to  know  God  and  Chrift,  and  his 
law  and  gofpcl ;  and  fhewing  tliem,  that  they  could  never 
know  it  by  ftudy,  nor  philot'ophy,  but  by  divine  revelation 
through  the  Spirit  of  God,  opening  to  them  in  the  ftillnefs 
of  their  minds.  The  men  were  tender,  and  went  away  well 
fatisfied. 

The  firft-day  following  I  was  at  friends  meeting  at  Ara- 
fterdam,  where,  amongft  feveral  forts  of  profeifors,  was  a 
doctor  of  Poland,  who  for  his  religion  was  banifhed  from 
the  place  he  lived  in,  and  being  affcfted  with  the  teftimony 
of  truth  in  the  meeting,  he  came  afterwards  to  have  fome 
dif<:ourfe  with  me  :  and  after  we  had  been  ibme  time  to- 
gether, and  I  had  opened  things  further  to  him,  he  went 
away  very  tender  and  loving. 

While  I  was  at  Amfterdam,  I  fpent  much  of  my  time  in 
writing  books,  papers,  or  epiftles'on  truth's  behalr.  I  wrote 
feveral  epiftles  from  Amfterdam'  to  friends  in  England  and 
elfewhere,  on  feveral  occafions,  as  the  Lord  moved  me  by 
his  Spirit  thereunto.     I  wrote  alfo  from  thence,  *  A  warning 

*  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  city  of  Oldenburgh,  which  wa$ 


«43  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1677 

'  lately  burned  down ;'  alfo,  '  A  warning  to  the  inhabitants 
'  of  the  city  of  Hamburgh.'  I  wrote  alfo  an  epiflle  to  the 
ambaifadors  that  were  treating  about  a  peace  at  Nimeguen. 
To  the  magi  Urates  and  priefts  of  Embden  I  wrote,  fhevving 
them  their  unchnftian  praftices  in  perfecuting  friends.  I 
wrote  feveral  other  books  there,  in  anfwer  to  priefts  and 
others,  of  Hamburgh,  Dantzick,  and  other  places,  to  clear 
the  truth  and  friends  from  their  falfe  charges  and  flanders. 

After  fome  time  George  Keith  and  William  Penn  came 
back  from  Germany  to  Amfterdam,  and  had  a  difpute  with 
one  Galenus  Abrahams  (one  of  the  moft  noted  Baptifts  in 
Holland)  at  which  many  profeffors  were  prefent;  but  not 
having  time  to  finifh  the  difpute  then,  they  met  again  two 
days  after,  and  the  Baptift  was  much  confounded,  and  truth 
gained  ground.  Between  thefe  two  difputes  we  had  a  very 
great  meeting  at  friends  meeting-place,  at  which  many  hun- 
dreds of  people  were ;  fome  of  high  rank  in  the  world's  ac- 
count. An  earl,  a  lord,  and  divers  other  eminent  perfons 
were  prefent,  who  all  behaved  themfelves  very  civilly. 
But,  when  the  meeting  was  ended,  fome  priefts  began  to 
make  oppofition  ;  which  when  William  Penn  underftood, 
he  ilood  up  again,  and  anfwered  them  to  the  great  fatisfac- 
tion  of  the  people,  who  were  much  afFefted  with  the  feveral 
teflimonies  they  had  heard.  After  the  meeting  feveral 
of  them  came  to  Gertrude's,  where  we  were,  with  whom 
George  Keith  had  much  difcourfe  in  Latin. 

Having  nov/  (inifhed  our  fervice  at  Amfterdam,  we  took 
leave  of  friends  there,  and  pafted  by  waggon  to  Leyden, 
about  twenty-five  miles ;  where  we  flaid  a  day  or  two,  feek- 
ing  out  and  vifiting  fome  tender  people  that  we  heard  of 
there.  We  met  with  a  German,  who  was  partly  convinced. 
He  informed  us  of  an  eminent  man  that  was  inquiring  after 
truth.  Some  fought  him  out  and  vifited  him,  and  found 
him  a  ferious  man.  I  alfo  fpoke  to  him,  and  he  owned  the 
truth.  William  Penn  and  Benjamin  Furly  went  to  vifit 
another  great  man,  that  lived  a  little  out  of  Leyden,  who, 
they  faid,  had  been  general  to  the  king  of  Denmark's  forces. 
He  and  his  v.'ife  were  very  loving  to  them,  and  heard  the 
truth  with  ioy. 

From  Leyden  we  went  to  the  Hague,  where  the  prince 
of  Orange  kept  his  court;  and  vifited  one  of  the  judges,  ol 
Holland,  with  whom  we  had  much  difcourfe.  He  was  a 
wife  tender  man,  and  put  many  obje6lions  and  queries  to 
us,  which  when  we  had  anfwered,  he  was  latisficd,  and  part- 


16773  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  249 

ed  with  us  in  much  love.  Leaving  the  Hague,  we  went 
to  Delft,  and  from  thence  that  night  to  Rotterdam,  where 
we  ftaid  feveral  days,  and  had  feveral  meetings.  While  I 
was  here,  I  gave  forth  a  book  for  the  Jews,  with  whom, 
when  I  was  at  Amfterdam,  I  had  a  defire  to  have  had  fome 
difcourfe;  but  they  would  not.  Here  alfo  I  reviewed  feve- 
ral other  books  and  papers,  which  I  had  given  forth  before, 
and  were  now  tranfcribed. 

Finding  our  fpirits  clear  of  the  fervice  which  the  Lord 
bad  given  us  to  do  in  Holland,  we  took  leave  of  friends 
of  Rotterdam,  and  paffed  by  boat  to  the  Briel,  in  order  to 
take  palFage  that  day  in  the  packet-boat  for  England,  feveral 
fiiends  of  Rotterdam  accompanying  us,  and  fome  of  Am- 
flerdam,  who  were  come  to  fee  us  again  before  we  left  Hol- 
land. But  the  packet-boat  not  coming  in  till  night,  we 
were  fain  to  lodge  at  the  Briel ;  and  next  day,  the  one-and- 
twentieth  of  the  eighth  month,  and  the  firft-day  of  the  week, 
we  went  on  board,  and  fet  fail  about  the  tenth  hour,  viz. 
William  Penn,  George  Keith  and  I,  and  Gertrude  Dirick 
Niefon,  with  her  children. 

We  were  in  all  about  fixty  paffengers,  and  had  a  long  and 
hazardous  paflage  :  for  the  winds  were  contrary,  and  the 
weather  ftormy ;  the  boat  alfo  very  leaky,  infomuch  that  we 
were  tain  to  have  two  pumps  continually  going  day  and 
night,  fo  that  it  was  thought  there  was  twice  as  much  water 
pumped  out  as  the  veffel  would  have  held.  But  the  Lord, 
who  is  able  to  make  the  ilormy  winds  to  ceafe  and  the 
raging  waves  of  the  fea  to  be  calm,  yea,  to  raife  them  and 
ftop  them  at  his  pleafure,  he  alone  did  preferve  us ;  praifed 
be  his  name  for  ever  !  Though  our  palFage  was  hard,  yet 
we  had  a  fine  time,  and  good  fervice  for  truth  on  board 
among  the  paifengers,  fome  of  whom  were  great  folks,  and 
were  very  kind  and  loving.  We  arrived  at  Harwich  the 
23d  of  the  eighth  month  at  night,  having  been  two  nights 
and  almoft  three  days  at  fea.  Next  morning  William  Penn 
and  George  Keith  took  horfe  for  Colchefler ;  but  I  ftaid, 
and  had  a  meeting  at  Harwich  ;  and  there  being  no  Col- 
chefter  coach  there,  and  the  poft-mafter's  wife  being  unrea- 
fonable  in  her  demands  for  a  coach,  and  deceiving  us  of  it 
alfo  after  we  had  hired  it,  we  went  to  a  friend's  houfe  about 
a  mile  and  an  half  in  the  country,  and  hired  his  wagt^on, 
which  we  bedded  well  with  ftraw,  and  rode  in  it  to  Col- 
chefter. 

I  ftaid  in  Colchefler  till  firft-day,  having  a  defire  to  be  at 

Vol.    IL  it 


i^o  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  liS-jy 

friends'  meeting  there  that  day ;  and  a  very  large  and  weighty 
meeting  it  was  :  for  friends  hearing  of  my  return  from  Hol- 
land, flocked  from  feveral  parts  of  the  country  ;  and  many 
of  the  town's  people  coming  alfo,  it  was  thought  there  were 
about  a  thoufand  people  at  the  meeting,  and  all  was  peace- 
able. Having  ftaid  a  day  or  two  longer  at  Colchefter,  I 
travelled  through  EfTex,  vifiting  friends  at  Halfled,  Brain- 
tree,  Felfted,  and  Saling,  and  having  meetings  with  them. 
At  Chelmsford  I  had  a  meeting  in  the  evening.  There 
being  many  friends  prifoners,  they  got  liberty,  and  came  to 
the  meeting,  and  we  were  well  refrefhed  together  in  the 
Lord.  Next  day,  the  9th  of  the  ninth  month,  I  got  to 
London,  where  friends  received  me  with  great  joy  ;  and 
the  firft-day  following  went  to  Gracechurch-ftreet  meeting, 
where  the  Lord'vifited  us  with  his  refrefhing  prefence,  and 
the  glory  of  the  Lord  furrounded  the  meeting ;  praifed  be 
the  Lord! 

After  I  had  been  a  little  while  in  London,  I  wrote  the 
following  letter  to  my  wife : 

'  Dear  heart, 
'  ^  fl  ^O  whom  is  my  love,  and  to  the  children,  and  to  all 
'  JL  the  reft  of  friends  in  the  Lord's  truth,  power,  and 
'  Seed,  that  is  over  all ;  glory  to  the  Lord,  and  bleffed  be 
'  his  name  for  ever  beyond  all  words !  who  hath  carried  me 
'  through  and  over  many  trials  and  dangers  in  his  eternal 
'power!  I  have  been  twice  at  Gracechurch-ftreet  meet- 
'  ing ;  and  though  oppofite  fpirits  were  there,  yet  all  was 
'  quiet ;  the  dev/  of  heaven  fell  upon  the  people,  and  the 
'  glory  of  the  Lord  fhined  over  all.  Every  day  I  am  fain 
'  to  be  at  meetings  about  bufinefs,  and  fufFerings,  which 
'  are  great  abroad ;  and  now  many  friends  are  concerned 
'  with  many  perfons  about  them  :  fo  in  hafte,  with  my  love 
*  to  you  all  — 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  24th  of  the 
'  9th  month,  1677.' 

About  this  time  I  received  letters  from  New-England, 
which  gave  account  of  the  magiftrates  and  rulers  cruel  and 
unchrillian  proceedings  againft  friends  there,  whipping  and 
abuling  them  very  ftiamefuUy  ;  for  they  whipped  many  wo- 
men friends.  One  woman  they  tied  to  a  cart,  and  dragged 
her  along  the  Ilreet,  ftie  being  ftripped  above  the  waift. 


i677]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  251 

Yea,  they  whipped  fome  mailers  of  fhips,  that  were  not 
friends,  only  for  bringing  friends  thither.  At  that  very  time, 
while  they  were  ptrfecuting  friends  in  this  barbarous  man- 
ner, the  Indians  flew  threefcore  of  their  men,  took  one  of 
their  captains,  and  flayed  the  fkin  off  his  head  while  he 
was  alive,  and  carried  it  away  in  triumph  :  fo  that  the  fober 
people  faid,  "  The  judgments  of  God  came  upon  them  for 
*'  perfecuting  the  Quakers  :"  but  the  blind,  dark  priefts  faid, 
*'  It  was  becaufe  they  did  not  perfecute  them  enough." 
Creat  exercife  I  had  in  feeking  relief  here  for  poor  fuffer- 
ing  friends  there,  that  they  might  not  lie  under  the  rod  of 
the  wicked. 

Upon  this  and  other  fcrvices  for  truth  I  (laid  in  London 
a  month  or  five  weeks,  vifiting  meetings,  and  helping  and 
encouraging  friends  to  labour  for  the  deliverance  of  their 
fuffering  brethren  in  other  parts.  Afterwards  I  went  to 
Kingfton,  and  vilited  friends  there  and  thereaway.  Having 
llaid  a  little  among  friends  there,  overlooking  a  book  which 
I  had  then  ready  to  go  to  the  prefs,  I  went  into  Bucking- 
hamfhire,  vifiting  friends,  and  had  feveral  meetings  amongll 
them  at  Amerfham,  Hungerhill,  Jordans,  Hedgerly,  Wick- 
ham,  and  Turvil-heath.  In  fome  of  which,  thofe  that  were 
gone  out  from  the  unity  of  friends  in  truth,  into  ftrife,  op- 
pofition,  and  divifion,  were  very  unruly  and  troublefome  ; 
particularly  at  the  men's  meeting  at  Thomas  Ellwood's  at 
Hungerhill,  where  the  chief  of  them  came  from  Wickham, 
endeavouring  to  make  difturbance,  and  to  hinder  friends 
from  proceeding  in  the  bufmefs  of  the  meeting.  When  I 
faw  their  defign,  I  admoniflied  them  to  be  fober  and  quie^, 
and  not  trouble  the  meeting,  by  interrupting  the  fervice 
thereof;  but  rather,  if  they  were  diflatisfied  with  friends  pro- 
ceedings, and  had  any  thing  to  objeft,  let  a  meeting  be  ap- 
pointed on  purpofe  fome  other  day.  So  friends  offered  to 
give  them  a  meeting  another  day ;  which  at  length  was 
agreed  to  be  at  Thomas  Ellwood's  the  week  following. 
Accordingly  friends  met  them  there,  and  the  meeting  was 
in  the  barn  ;  for  there  came  fo  many,  the  houfe  could  not 
receive  them.  After  we  had  fat  awhile,  they  began  their 
jangling.  Mofl  of  their  arrows  were  [hot  at  me;  but  the 
Lord  was  with  me,  and  gave  me  fircngth  in  his  power  to 
caft  back  their  darts  of  envy  and  faifehood  upon  therafelvcs. 
Their  objeftions  were  anfwered ;  things  were  opened  to  the 
people;  and  a  good  opportunity  it  was,  and  ferviccable  to 
the  truth ;  many  that  before  were  weak,  were  now  fl.rength- 
I  I  i? 


252  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  [1677 

ened  and  confirmed ;  forne  that  were  doubting  and  waver- 
ing were  fatisfied  and  fettled;  and  faithful  friends  were 
refreflied  and  comforted  in  the  fpringing  of  life  amongft  us  : 
for  the  power  rofe,  and  life  fprung,  and  in  the  arifings  there- 
of many  living  teftimonies  were  borne  againft  that  wicked, 
dividing,  rending  fpirit,  which  thofe  oppofers  were  joined  to 
and  atlcd  by  :  and  the  meeting  ended  to  the  fatisfaftion  of 
friends.  That  night  I  lodged,  with  other  friends,  at  Thomas 
Ellwood's ;  and  the  fame  week  I  had  a  meeting  again  with 
thofe  oppofers  at  Wickham,  where  they  again  fhewed  their 
envy,  and  were  made  manifeft  to  the  upright-hearted. 

After  I  had  vifited  friends  in  that  upper  fide  of  Bucking- 
hamfhife,  I  called  at  Henley  in  Oxfordfhire,  and  went  by 
Caufliam  to  Reading,  where  I  was  at  meeting  on  firfl-day, 
and  in  the  evening  had  a  large  meeting  with  friends.  Next 
day  there  being  another  meeting  about  fettling  a  women's 
meeting,  fome  of  thofe  that  had  let  in  the  fpirit  of  divifion 
fell  into  jangling,  and  were  diforderly  for  awhile,  till  the 
weight  of  truth  brought  them  down.  After  this  I  palfed  on, 
vifiting  friends,  and  having  meetings  in  feveral  places, 
through  Berkflrire  and  Wiltfhire,  till  I  came  to  Briftol, 
which  was  on  the  24th  day  of  the  11th  month,  jufl  before 
the  fair. 

I  flaid  at  Briftol  the  time  of  the  fair,  and  fometime  after. 
Many  fvveet  and  precious  meetings  we  had ;  many  friends 
being  there  from  feveral  parts  of  the  nation,  fome  on  account 
of  trade,  and  fome  in  the  fervice  of  truth.  Great  was  the 
love  and  unity  of  friends  that  abode  faithful  in  the  truth, 
though  fome  who  were  gone  out  of  the  holy  unity,  and  were 
run  into  ftrife,  divifion,  and  enmity,  were  rude  and  abufive, 
and  behaved  themfelves  in  a  very  unchriftian  manner  to- 
wards me.  But  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all ;  by  which 
being  preferved  in  the  heavenly  patience,  which  can  bear 
injuries  for  his  name's  fake,  I  felt  dominion  therein  over  the 
rough,  rude,  and  unruly  fpirits ;  and  left  them  to  the  Lord, 
tvho  knew  my  innocency,  and  would  plead  my  caufe. 
The  i7)ore  thefe  laboured  to  reproach  and  vilify  me,  the 
more  did  the  love  of  liicnds,  that  were  f^ncere  and  upright-? 
hearted,  abound  towards  me;  and  fome,  that  had  been  be- 
trayed by  the  adverfaries,  feeing  their  envy  and  rude  beha- 
viour, broke  off  from  them  ;  Vvho  have  caufe  to  blcfs  the 
Lord  for  their  deliverance. 

When  I  left  Briftol,  I  went  with  Richard  Snead  to  u, 
houfe  of  his  in  the   country,  and  from  thence  to  Hezekis^h 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  253 

Coale's  at  Winterburn  in  Gloucefterfliiie.  whither  came  fe- 
veral  friends  that  were  under  great  fufferings  for  truth's 
fake,  whom  I  had  invited  to  meet  me  there.  Stephen 
Smith,  Richard  Snead,  and  I,  drew  up  a  breviate  of  their 
fufferings,  fetting  forth  the  illegal  proceedings  againfl  them; 
which  was  delivered  to  the  judges  at  the  aflTizes  at  Gloucef- 
ter;  and  they  promifed  to  put  a  ftop  to  thofe  illegal  pro- 
ceedings.  Next  day  we  pafled  to  Sudbury,  and  had  a 
large  meeting  in  the  meeting-houfe,  which  at  that  time  was 
of  very  good  fervice.  We  went  next  day  to  Nathaniel 
Crips's  at  Tedbury,  and  from  thence  to  Nailfworth ;  where 
on  firft-day  we  had  a  brave  meeting  and  large.  From 
thence  we  went  to  the  quarterly  meeting  at  Finchcomb, 
where  were  feveral  of  the  oppofite  fpint,  who  (it  was  thought) 
intended  to  have  made  dilturbance  amongft  friends  ;  but  the 
Lord's  power  was  over,  and  kept  them  down,  and  good  fer- 
vice for  the  Lord  we  had  at  that  meeting.  We  returned 
from  Finchcomb  to  Naiifworth,  and  had  another  very  pre- 
cious meeting  there,  to  which  friends  came  from  the  feveral 
meetings  thereabouts;  which  made  it  very  large  alfo. 

We  went  from  Nailfworth  the  firil  of  the  firft  month, 
1677-8,  and  travelled,  vifiting  friends,  and  having  many 
meetings  at  Cirencefter,  Crown- AUins,  Cheltenham,  Stoke- 
Orchard,  Tewkfbury,  &c.  fo  went  to  Worcefler,  where  I 
had  formerly  fuffered  injprifonment  above  a  year  for  the 
truth's  fake ;  and  friends  rejoiced  greatly  to  fee  me  there 
again.  Here  I  ftaid  feveral  days,  and  had  many  very 
precious  meetings  in  the  city,  and  much  fervice  amongft 
friends.  After  which  I  had  meetings  at  Perlhore  and  Evef- 
ham ;  then  llruck  to  Ragley  in  Warwickfhire,  to  vifit  the 
lady  Conway,  who  I  underftood  was  very  defirous  to  fee 
me>  and  whom  I  found  tender  and  loving,  and  willing  to 
have  detained  me  longer  than  I  had  freedom  to  Itay. 
About  two  miles  from  hence  I  had  two  meetings  at  a 
friend's  houfe,  whofe  name  was  John  Stanley,  whither  Wil- 
liam Dewfbury  came,  and  ftaid  with  me  about  half  a  day. 
1  vifited  friends  in  their  meetings  at  Stratford,  Lamcoat, 
and  Armfcott  (from  whence  I  was  fent  prifoner  to  Worccf- 
ter  in  the  year  1673)  and  thence  paffed  into  Oxfordftiirc, 
vifiting  friends,  and  having  meetings  at  Sibbard,  Nortli- 
Newton,  Banbury,  Adderbury,  &c.  Then  viliting  friends 
through  BuckinghamOiire,  at  Long-Crendon,  limcr,  Mcn- 
dle.  VVefton,  Cholftjerry.  Chefliam,  &c.  1  came  to  L^;;ac 
Pcaington'Sj  where  I  ftaid  a  few  daysj  then  turning  n^.ta 


254-  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1677 

Hertfordfhlre,  vifited  friends  at  Charlewood,  Watford, 
Hempftead,  and  Market-ftreet,  at  which  places  I  had  meet- 
ings with  friends.  From  Market-ftreet  I  went  in  the  morn- 
ing to  Luton  in  Bedfordfliire,  to  fee  John  Crook,  with 
whom  I  fpent  good  part  of  the  day,  and  went  towards 
evening  to  Alban's,  where  1  lay  that  night  at  an  inn.  And 
vifiting  friends  at  South-Mims,  Barnet,  and  Hendon,  where 
I  had  meetings,  I  came  to  London  the  eighth  of  the  third 
month.  It  being  the  fourth-day,  I  went  to  Gracechurch- 
ftreet  meeting,  which  was  peaceable  and  well;  many  friends, 
not  knowing  I  was  come  to  town,  were  very  joyful  to  fee 
me  there,  and  the  Lord  was  prefent  with  us,  refrefhing  us 
with  his  living  virtue ;  bleffed  be  his  holy  name ! 

The  parliament  was  fitting  when  I  came  to  town,  and 
friends  having  laid  their  fufFerings  before  them,  were  waiting 
on  them  for  relief  againft  the  laws  made  againft  Popifh  re- 
cufants,  which  they  knew  we  were  not ;  though  fome  ma- 
licious magiftrates  took  advantage  to  profecute  us  in  feveral 
parts  of  the  nation  upon  thofe  ftatutes.  Friends  being  at- 
tending that  fervice,  when  I  came,  I  joined  them  therein ; 
and  fome  probability  there  was  that  fomething  might  have 
been  obtained  towards  friends  eafe  and  relief  in  that  cafe, 
many  of  the  parliament-men  being  tender  and  loving  to- 
wards us,  as  believing  we  were  much  mifreprefented  by  our 
adverfaries.  But  when  I  went  one  morning  with  George 
Whitehead,  to  the  parliament-houfe,  to  attend  them  on 
friends  behalf,  on  a  fudden  they  were  prorogued  though  but 
for  a  fhort  time. 

About  two  weeks  after  I  came  to  London  the  yearly  meet-, 
ing  began,  to  which  friends  came  out  of  moft  parts  of  the 
nation,  and  a  glorious  heavenly  meeting  we  had.  Oh  the 
glory,  majcfty,  love,  life,  wifdom  and  unity,  that  was  amongft 
us !  The  power  reigned  over  all,  and  many  teftimonies 
were  borne  therein  againft  that  ungodly  fpirit  which  fought 
to  make  rents  and  divifions  amongft  the  Lord's  people ; 
but  not  one  mouth  was  opened  amongft  us  in  its  defence, 
or  on  its  behalf.  Good  and  comfortable  accounts  alfo  we 
had,  for  the  moft  part,  from  friends  in  other  countries ;  of 
which  I  find  a  brief  account  in  a  letter  which  foon  after  I 
wrote  to  my  wife,  the  copy  whereof  here  follows : 


Dear  heart, 

is  my  love 

Great  meetings  here  have  beenj 


<  ^  I  ^O  whom  is  my  love  in  the  everlafting  Seed  of  life, 
'    A    that  rci,L;ns  over  all. 


C1678  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  155 

*  and  the  Lord's  power  hath  been  flirring  through  all,  the 

*  like  hath  not  been.     The    Lord  hath  in  his   power   knit 

*  friends  u'onderfully  together,  and  his  glorious  prefence  did 
-  appear  among  friends.     And  now  the  meetings  are  over 

*  (blelTed   be   the   Lord!)  in  quietnefs   and   peace.     From 

*  Holland  I  hear  that  things  are  well  there.     Some  friends 

*  are  gone  that  way,  to  be  at  the  yearly  meeting  at  Amfter- 
'  dam.      At  Embden,  friends  that  were  banifhed  are  got  into 

*  the  city  again.     At  Dantzick,  friends  are  in  prifon,  and 

*  the  magiftrates  threatened  them  with  harder  imprifonment; 

*  but  the  next  day  the  Lutherans  rofc,  and  plucked  down  or 

*  defaced  the  Popifh  monaftery,  fo  they  have  work  enough 
'  themfelves.     The  king  of  Poland   did  receive  my  letter, 

*  and  read  it  himfelf ;  and  friends  have  fmce  printed  it  in 
'  High  Dutch.     By  letters  from  the  half-yearly  meeting  in 

*  Ireland   I   hear  they  are  all  in  love  there.      At  Barbadoes 
'  friends  are  in  quietnefs,  and  their  meetings  fettled  in  peace. 

*  At   Antigua  alfo   and   Nevis  truth   profpers,  and  friends 

*  have  their  meetings  orderly  and  well.      Likewife  in  New- 

*  England,  and  other  places,  things  concerning  truth  and 

*  friends   are  well ;  and  in   thofe  places  the  men's  and  wo- 

*  men's  meetings  are  fettled ;  bleffed  be  the  Lord  !    So  keep 

*  in  God's  power  and  Seed,  that   is  over  all,  in   whom  ye 

*  all  have  life  and  falvation  ;  for  the  Lord  reigns   over  all, 

*  in  his  glory,  and  in  his  kingdom ;  glory  to  his  name  for 
'  ever.   Amen  !      So  in  hafte,  with  my  love  to  you  all,  and 

*  to  all  friends. 

'  G.  F.' 

*  London,  the  26th  of  the 

'  3d  month,   1678.' 

The  letter  to  the  king  of  Poland,  before-mentioned,  15 
as  followeth : 

'  To  Johannes  II L  king  of  Poland,  &c. 

•  O  king  ! 

WE  defire  thy  profperity  both  in  this  life  and  that 
which  is  to  come.  And  we  defire  that  we  may  have 
our  Chnftian  liberty  to  ferve  and  worfiiip  God  under  thy 
dominion  :  for  our  principle  kads  us  not  to  do  any  thing 
prejudicial  to  the  king  or  his  people.  We  are  a  people  that 
exercife  a  good  confcience  towards  God  through  his  Holy 
Spirit,  and  in  it  do  ferve,  worfhip,  and  honour  him  ;  and 


256  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1678 

*  towards  men  in  the  things  that  are  equal  and  juft,  doing 

*  to  them  as  we  would  have  them  do  unto  us ;  looking  unto 

*  Jcfus,  who  is  the  author  and  finifher  of  our  faith  ;  which 

*  faith  purifies  our  hearts,  and  brings  us  to  have  accefs  to 
'  God ;  without  which  we  cannot  pleafe  him :  by  which 
'  fiuth  all  the  juft  live,  as  the  fcripture  declares.  That 
'  which  we  deiire  of  thee,  O  king,  is,  that  we  may  have 
'  the  liberty  of  our  confciences  to  ferve  and  worfhip  God, 
'  and  to  pray  unto  him  in  our  meetings  together  in  the 
'  name  of  Jefus,  as  he  commands  :  with  a  promife  that  he 

*  will  be  in  the  midft  of  them.  The  king,  v/e  hope,  can- 
'  not  but  fay  that  this  duty  and  fervice  is  due  to  God  and 
'  Chrift;  and  we  give  Caefar  his  due,  and  pay  our  tribute 

*  and  cuflom  equal  with  our  neighbour,  according  to  our 

*  proportion.     We  never  read  in    ail  the   fcriptures  of  the 

*  New  Teftament,  that  ever  Chrift  or  his  difciples  did  ba- 

*  nifh  or  imprifon  any  that  were  not  of  their  faith  or  religi- 

*  on,  and  would  not  hear  them,  or  gave  any  fuch  com- 
'  mand ;  but,  on  the  contrary,  let  the  tares  and  the  wheat 

*  grow  together  till  the  harveft,  and  the  harveft  is  the  end  of 
'  the  world.     Then  Chrift  will  lend  his  angels  to  fever  the 

*  wheat  from  the  tares.    He  rebuked  fuch  as  would  have  had 

*  fire  from  heaven  to  confume  thofe  that  would  not  receive 
'  Chrift;  and  told  them  they  did  not  know  what  fpirit  they 
'  were  of;  he  came  not  to  deftroy  men's  lives,  but   to  fave 

*  them.* 

'  We  defire  the  king  to  confider  how  much  perfccution 
'  has  been  in  Chriftendom,  fince  the  apoftles  days,  concern- 
'  ing  religion.  Chrift  faid,  They  ftiould  go  into  everlaft- 
'  ing  punifhment  that  did  not  vifit  him  in  prifon  ;  then 
'  what  will  become  of  them  that  imprifon  him  in  his  mera- 

*  bers,  where  he  is  manifeft.  None  can  fay  the  world  is 
'  ended ;  therefore  how  will  Chriftendom  anfwer  the  dread- 
'  ful  and  terrible  God  at  his  day  of  judgment,  Ihat  have 
'  perfecuted  one  another  about  religion  before  the  end  of 
'  the  world,  under  a  pretence  of  plucking  up  tares ;  which 
'  is  not  their  work,  but  the  angels  at  the  end  of  the  world  ? 
'  Chrift  commands  men  to  love  one  another,  and  to  love 
'  enemies  ;  and  by  this  they  fhould  be  known  to  be  his  dif- 
'  ciples.  O  that  all  Chriftendom  had  lived  in  peace  and 
'unity,  that  they  might  by  their  moderation  ha^e  judged 
'  both  Turks  and   Jews  ;  and  let  all  have  their  liberty,    that 

*  own  God  and  Chrift  Jefus,  and  walk  as  becomes  the  glo- 
'  rious  gofpel  of  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift.     Our  defires  are, 


16783  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  257 

*  that  the  Lord  God  of  heaven  may  foften  the  king's  heart  to 

*  all  tender  confciences  that  fear  the  Lord,  and  are  afraid  of 
'  difobeying  him. 

'We  intreat  the  king  to  read  fome  of  the  noble  expref- 

*  (ions  of  feveral  kings,  and  others,  concerning  hberty  of 
'  confcience;    and   efpecially   Stephanus   king  of  Poland's 

*  fayings,  viz.  "  It  belongeth  not  to  me  to  reform  the  con- 
*'  fciences ;  1  have  always  gladly  given  that  over  to  God 
*'  which  belongeth  to  him ;  and  fo  fhall  I  do  now,  and  alfo 
'*  for  the  future.  I  will  fufFer  the  weeds  to  grow  till  the 
*'  time  of  harveft,  for  I  know  that  the  number  of  believ- 
•'  ers  are  but  fmall :  therefore,"  faid  he,  when  fome  were 
'  proceeding  in  perfecution,  "  I  am  king  of  the  people,  not 
*'  of  their  confciences."  He  alfo  affirmed,  that  "  religion 
"  was  not  to  be  planted  with  fire  and  fword."     Chron.  Li- 

*  berty  of  Religion,  Part  2. 

'  Alfo  a  book  wrote  in  French  by  W.   M.   anno   1576, 

*  hath  this  fentence,  viz.  "  Thofe  princes  that  have  ruled 
"  by  gentlenefs  and  clemency  added  to  juflice,  and  have 
*'  exercifed  moderation  and  meeknefs  towards  their  fubje6ts, 
*'  always  profpered  and  reigned  long ;  but,  on  the  contrary, 
"  thofe  princes  that  have  been  cruel,  unjuft,  prejudiced,  and 
*'  oppreffors  of  their  fubjefts,  have  foon  fallen,  they  and 
^'  their  eftates,  into  danger  or  total  ruin." 

*  Veritus  faith,  "  Seemg  Chrift  is  a  Lamb,  whom  you 
*'  profefs  to  be  your  head  and  captain,  then  it  behoveth  you 
*'  to  be  fheep,  and  to  ufe  the  fame  weapons  which  he  made 
*'  ufe  of:  for  he  will  not  be  a  lliepherd  of  wolves  and  wild 
"  beafts,  but  only  of  fheep.  Wherefore,  if  you  lofe  the 
••'  nature  of  fheep,"  faid  he,  "  and  be  changed  into  wolves 
"  and  v/ild  beafts,  and  ufe  flellily  weapons,  then  will  you 
*■'  exclude  yourfelves  oat  of  his  calling,  and  forfake  his  ban- 
*'  ner;  and  then  will  not  he  be  your  captain,"  S:c. 

'  .Alfo  we  find  it  afferced  by  king  James,  in  his  fpeech  to 

*  the  parliament,  in  the  year  1609,  "  That  it  is  a  pure  rule 
"  in  divinity,  that  God  never  planted  his  church  with  vio- 
"  lence  of  blood."  And  further  he  faid,  "  It  was  ufually 
"  the  condition  of  Chriftians  to  be  perfecuted,  but  not  to 
*'  perfecute. 

'  King  Charles,  in  his  'Er^*^v  ?c-<r,^,y.^i,  pag.  61.  faid  in  his 
'  prayer  to  God,  "  Thou  feefl.  how  much  cruelty  amongfJ 
"  Chriftians  is  afted  under  the  colour  of  religion;  as  if  we 
"  could  not  be  Chriftians  unlefs  we  crucified  one  another." 

Vol.   XL  k  k 


258  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ^^7^^ 

*  Pag.  28.  "  Make  them  at  length  ferioufly  to  confider, 
*'  that  nothing  violent  nor  injurious  can  be  religious." 

'  Pag.  70.  "  Nor  is  it  fo  proper  to  hew  out  religious  re- 
"  formation  by  the  fvvord,  as  to  polifh  them  by  fair  and 
"  equal  difputations,  among  thofe  that  are  mod  concerned 
"  in  the  differences,  whom  not  force  but  reafon  mufl  con- 
*'  vince." 

*  Pag.  66,  "  Take  heed  that  outward  circumflances  and 
•'  formalities  in  religion  devour  not  at  all." 

'  Pag.  gi,  92.  "  In  point  of  true  confcientious  tender- 
"  nefs  I  have  fo  often  declared,  how  little  I  defire  my  laws 
"  and  fceptre  fhould  intrench  on  God's  fovereignty,  who  is 
"■  the  only  king  of  confcience." 

*  Pag.  123.  "  Nor  do  I  defire  any  man  fhould  be  further 
*'  fubjetl  unto  me,  than  all  of  us  may  be  fubje6l  unto  God." 

'  Pag.  200.  "  O  thou  Sovereign  of  our  fouls,  the  only 
**  commander  of  our  confciences  !" 

'  Pag.  346.  (In  his  Meditations  on  Death)  "  It  is  indeed 
"  a  fad  eftate,  to  have  his  enemies  to  be  his  accufers,  par- 
"  ties,  and  judges." 

'  The  prince  of  Orange  teftified,  Anno  1579,  "  That  it 
♦'  was  impoffible  the  land  fhould  be  kept  in  peace,  except 
"  there  was  a  free  toleration  in  the  exercife  of  religion." 

"  Where  haft  thou  read  in  thy  day  (faid  Menno)  in  the 
"  writings  of  the  apoftles,  that  Chrift  or  the  apoftles  ever 
"  cried  out  to  the  magiftrate  for  their  power  againft  them 
"  that  would  not  hear  their  do6lrine,  nor  obey  their  words  ? 
"  I  know  certainly  (faid  he)  that  where  a  magiftrate  fhall 
"  banifli  with  the  fword,  there  is  not  the  right  knowledge, 
"  fpiritual  word,  nor  church  of  Chrift  ;  it  is,  Invocare 
"  brachium  feculare  (to  invoke  the  fecular  arm)." 

"  It  is  not  Chriftian-like,  but  tyrannical  (faid  D.  Philip- 
"  fon)  to  banifh  and  perfecute  people,  about  faith  and  rcli- 
'*  gion ;  and  they  that  do  fo  are  certainly  of  the  Pharifaical 
"  generation,  who  refifted  the  Holy  Ghoft." 

'  Erafmus  faid,  "  Though  they  take  our  monies  and 
"  goods,  they  cannot  therefore  hurt  our  falvation ;  they  af- 
*'  fli61:  us  much  with  prifons,  but  they  do  not  thereby  fepa- 
*'  rate  us  from  God."     In  de  Krydges  wrede,  fol.  63. 

'  I.iicernus  faid,  "  He  that  commandeth  any  thing  where- 
"  with  he  bindeth  the  confcience,  this  is  an  antichrilt."  In 
'  de  Bemife  Difp.  fol.  71. 

'  Irenaeus  affirmed,  '''  That  all  forcing  of  confcience, 
"  though  it  was  but  a  forbidding  of  the  exercife  which  is 


1678]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  259 

*'  efteemed  by  one  or  another  to  be  necelTary  to  falvation, 
"  is  in  nowife  right  nor  fitting."  He  alfo  affirmed,  ''■  That 
"  through  the  diverfity  of  religions  the  kingdom  fhould  not 
"  be  brought  into  any  difturbance." 

'  Conftantius  the  emperor  faid,  '"  It  was  enough  that  he 
"  preferred  the  unity  of  the  faith,  that  he  might  be  excufa- 
"  ble  before  the  judgment-feat  of  God  ;  and  that  he  would 
•■'  leave  every  one  to  his  own  underftanding,  according  to 
"  the  account  he  will  give  before  the  judgment- feat  of 
"  Chrilt.  Hereto  may  we  flir  up  people,  (faid  he)  not 
*'  cornp-1  them  ;  befeech  them  to  come  into  the  unity  of 
*'  the  Chriftians,  but  to  do  violence  to  them,  we  will  not  in 
*'  any-wife."     Sebaft.   Frank.   Chron.  fol.  127. 

'  Auguftinus  faid,  "  Some  difturbed  the  peace  of  the 
*'  chfjrch,  while  they  went  about  to  root  out  the  tares  before 
''  their  time ;  and  through  this  error  of  blindnefs  are  they 
"  themfelves  feparated  fo  much  the  more  from  being  united 
*'  unto  Chnft." 

'  Retnaldus  teftified,  *'  That  he,  who  with  imprifoning 
^'  and  perfecuting  feekcth  to  fpread  the  gofpel,  and  grealetli 
*'  his  hands  with  blood,  fliall  much  rather  be  looked  upon 
"  for  a  wild  hunter,  than  a  preacher  or  a  defender  of  the 
"  Chriftian  religion." 

"  I  have  for  a  long  feafon  determined  (faid  Henry  IV. 
"  king  of  France,  in  his  fpeech  to  the  parliament  1599)  to 
•'  reform  the  church,  which  without  peace  I  cannot  do  :  and 
"  it  is  impoffible  to  reform  or  convert  people  by  violence. 
'■'  I  am  king,  as  a  fbepherd,  and  will  not  fhed  the  blood  of 
*'  my  fheep  :  but  will  gather  them  through  the  mildnefs  and 
"  goodnefs  of  a  king,  and  not  through  the  power  of  tyran- 
•'  ny  :  and  I  will  give  them  that  are  of  the  reformed  reli- 
"  gion,  right  liberty  to  live  and  dwell  free,  without  being 
"  examined,  perplexed,  molefled,  or  compelled  to  any  thing, 
*'  contrary  to  their  confcienees  ;  for  they  Ihall  have  the  free 
"  exercife  of  their  religion,"  Sec,  [Vid.  Chron.  Van  de 
*  Underg.  2  deel,  p.  1514-] 

'  Ennius  faid,  "  Wifdom  is  driven  oat,  when  the  matter 
"  is  a6led  by  force.  And  therefore  the  bed  of  men,  and 
"  moll  glorious  of  princes,  were  always  ready  to  give  tolcra- 
"  tion." 

'  Eufebius,  in  his  fecond  book  of  the  life  of  ConO-mtine, 
'  reports  thefe  words  of  the  emperor  :  "  Let  them  whicli  err 
'•  with  joy  receive  the  like  fruition  of  peace  and  qiiictnels 
*■'  v/ith  the  faithful,  fith  the  reftoring  of  communiciUion  and 

K   Iv    2 


26o  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1678 

'•  fociety  may  bring  them  into  the  right  way  of  truth  ;  let 
''  none  give  moleftation  to  any  ;  let  every  one  do  as  he  de- 
*'  termines  in  his  mind.  And  indeed  there  is  great  rcafon 
"  for  prrtices  to  give  toleration  to  dilagreeing  peribns,  whofe 
*'  opinions  cannot  by  fair  means  be  altered  :  for  if  the  per- 
*'  fons  be  confident,  they  will  ferve  God  according  to  their 
"  perfuaiions ;  and  if  they  be  publickiy  prohibited,  they 
'•will  private!'/  convene;  and  then  all  thofe  inconvenien- 
*'  ces  and  mifchiefs,  which  are  arguments  againft  the  per- 
*'  mifTion  of  conventicles,  are  arguments  for  the  publick  per- 
*'  miffion  of  differing  religions,  &c.  they  being  reftrained 
*'  and  made  miferaljle,  endears  the  difcontented  perfons  mu- 
*'  tually,  and  makes  more  hearty  and  dangerous  confedera- 
*'  tions." 

*'  The  like  counfel  in  the  divifions  of  Germany,  at  the 
*'  firfl  reformation,  was  thought  reafonable  by  the  emperor 
•'  P'erdinand  and  his  excellent  fon  Maximilian  ;  for  they 
*'  had  obferved,  that  violence  did  exafperate,  was  unbleft, 
"  unfuccefsful,  and  unrcafonabk  ;  and  therefore  they  made 
"  decrees  of  toleration/' 

'  The  duke  of  Savoy,  repenting  of  his  war  undertaken  for 

*  religion  againfl   the  Piedmontefe,  promifed-  them  tolera- 

*  tion  ;  and  was  as  good  as  his  word/ 

.  '  It  is  remarkable,  that  till  the  time  of  Juflinian  the  em- 

*  peror,  Anno  Domini  525.  "  the  Cathoiicks  and  Nova- 
*'  tians  had  churches  indifferently  permitted,  even  in  Rome 
-  itfelf/' 

*'  And  Paul  preached  the  kingdom  of  God,  teaching 
*'  thofe  things  which  concerned  the  Lord  Jefus  Chritl;,  with 
"  all  confidence,  and  no  man  forbad  him;  and  this  he  did 
'•'  for  the  fpacc  of  iwp  years  in  his  own  hired  houfe  at  Rome, 
*'  and  received  all^t^at  came  to  him/' 

'  Now,  O  king;  feeing  thefe  noble  teftimonies  concerning 
'  liberty  of  confcience  of  kings,  emperors,  and  others,  and 
'  the  liberty  that  Paul  had  at  Rome  in  the  days  of  the  hea- 
'  then  emperor,  our  delire  is,  that  we  may  have  the  fame  li- 
'  berty  at  Dantzick  to  meet  together  in  our  own  hired  hou- 
'  I'ca,  which  cannot  be  any  prejudice  either  to  the  king  or 
'  the  city  of  Dantzick,  for  us  to  meet  together  to  wait  upon 
'  the  Lord,  and  pray  unto  him,  and  to  ferve  and  worfhip 
'  him  in  Spirit  and  truth  in  our  own  hired  houfes ;    feeing 

*  our  principle  leads  us  to  hurt  no  man,  but  to  love  our 
'  enemies,  and  to  pray  for  them,  yea,  them  that  perfecute 

*  us.     Therefore,  O  king,  confi dor,  and  the  city  of  Dant- 


1^78]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  261 

'  zick,  would  you  not  think  it  hard  for  others  to  force  you 
'  from  your  religion  to  another,  contrary  to  your  confcien- 
'  ces  ?  And  if  it  be  fo,  that  you  would  think  it  hard  .to  you, 
'  then  "  do  you  unto  others  as  you  would  have  ^j^m  do 
"  unto  you,"  do  not  you  that  unto  others  which  you  would 
'  not  have  men  do  unto  you  ;  for  that  is  the  royal  law, 
'  which  ought  to  be  obeyed.  And  fo  in  love  to  thy  im- 
^  mortal  foul,  and  for  thy  eternal  good  this  is  written. 

'  G.   F.' 

^POSTSCRIPT. 

"  Bleffed  be  the  merciful,  for  they  fhall  obtain  mercy." 
^  And  remember,  O  king,  Juftin  Martyr's  two  apologies  to 
'  the  Roman    emperors,   in   the   defence  of  the  pcrfecuted 

*  Chriftians,  and  that  notable  apology  which  was  written 
^  by  Tertuilian  upon  the  fame  fubjeft ;  which  are  not  on- 

*  ly  for  the  Chriilian  religion,  but  againft  all  perfecution 
^  for  religion.' 

'  Dear  Peter  Hendricks,  John  Claus,  J.  Rawlins,  and 
'  all  the  reft  of  friends  in  Amfterdam,  Friefland,  and 
'  Rotterdam,  to  whom  is  my  love  in  the  Seed  of  life 
'  that  is  over  all ; 

.^  T   RECEIVED  your  letter,  with  a  letter  from  Dantzick  : 

*  Jl  I  have  written  fomething  direfted  to  you,  to  the  king 
'  of  Poland,  which  you   may  tranflate  into   High   Dutch, 

*  and  fend  it  to  friends  there,  to  give  it  to  the  king  ;  or  you 

*  may  print  it,  after  it  be  delivered  in  manufcript,  which 
'  may  be  ferviceable  to  other  princes.  So  in  hafte,  with  my 
'  k)ve.  The  Lord  God  Almighty  over  all  give  you  domi- 
'  nion  in  his  eternal  power,  and  in  it  over  all  prcferve  you, 
'  and  keep  you  to  his  glory,  that  you  may  anfwcr  that  of 

*  God  in  all  people  !     Amen. 

'George    Fox.' 
*  London,  the  13th  of 
'  9th  month,  1677.' 

I  continued  yet  in  and  about  London  fome  weeks,  the 
parliament  fitting  again,  and  friends  attending  to  get  fonio 
redrefs  of  our  futFerings,  which  about  this  time  were  very 
great  and  heavy  upon  many  friends  in  divers  parts  of  the 
"nation  j  t^ey  being  very  unduly  profccuted  u^o\i  the  fta-. 


363  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [167^ 

tutes  made  againft  popifh  recufants;  though  our  perfecutors 
could  not  but  know  friends  were  utterly  againft  popery, 
having  borne  teftimony  againft  it  in  word  and  writing,  and 
fuflFered  under  it.  But  though  many  of  the  members  of 
parliament  in  either  houfe  were  kind  to  friends,  and  willing 
to  have  done  fomething  for  their  eafe;  yet  having  much 
bulinefs,  they  were  hindered  from  doing  the  good  they 
■would,  fo  that  the  fuffcrings  upon  friends  were  continued. 

But  that  which  added  much  to  the  grief  and  exercife  of 
friends  was,  that  fome,  who  made  profeftion  of  the  fame 
truth  with  us,  being  gone  from  the  fimplicity  of  the  gofpel 
into  flefhly  liberty,  and  labouring  to  draw  others  after  them, 
did  oppofe  the  order  and  difcipline  which  God  by  his  pow- 
er had  fet  up  and  eftabliflied  in  his  church  ;  and  made  a 
great  noife  and  clamour  againft  prefcriptions  ;  whereby  they 
eafily  drew  after  them  fuch  as  were  loofely  inclined,  and  de- 
fired  a  broader  way  than  the  path  of  truth  to  walk  in.  Some 
alfo,  that  were  more  fimple,  but  young  in  truth,  or  weak  in 
judgment,  were  apt  to  be  betrayed  by  them,  not  knowing 
the  depths  of  Satan  in  thefe  wiles  :  for  whofe  fake  I  was 
moved  to  write  the  following  paper,  for  the  undeceiving  the- 
<leceived,  and  opening  the  underftandings  of  the  weak  in 
this  matter: 

'  A  LL  that  deny  prefcriptions  without  diftinftion,  may 
'  -Z~  jL  as  well  deny  ali  the  fcriptures,  which  were  given 
'  forth  by  the  pov/er  and  Spirit  of  God.      For  do  they  not 

*  prefcribe  how  men  fhould  walk  towards  God  and  man, 
'  both  in  the  Old  Teftament  and  in  the  New  ?     Yea,  from 

*  the  very  firft  promife  of  Chnft  in  Genefis,  what  people 
'  ought  to  believe  and  truft  in  ;  and  all  along,  till  ye  come 
'  to  the  prophets  ?    Did  not  the  Lord  prefcribe  to  his  peo- 

*  pie  by  the  fathers,  and  then  by  his  prophets  ?  Did  he 
'  not  prefcribe  to  the  people  how  they  ftiould  walk,  though 
'  they  turned  againft  the  prophets  in  the* old  covenant  for 
'  declaring  or  preCcribing  to  them  the  way  how  they  might 
'  walk  to  pkafe  God,  and  keep  in  favour  with  him  ?  In  th& 

*  days  of  Chrift,  did  he  not  prefcribe  and  teach  how  people 
'  fhould  walk  and  believe  ?  and  after  him,  did  not  the  apof- 
'  ties  prefcribe  unto  people  how  they  might  come  to  be- 

*  lievc,   and  receive  the  gofpel  and  the  kingdom  of  God, 

*  diivding  unto  that  which  would  give  them  the  knowledge 
'  of  God,  and  how  they  ftiould  walk  in  the  new  covenant 
'  in  the  days  uf  the  gofpel,   and  by  what  v^:^y  they  ftiould 


1678]  GEORGE    FOX'a    JOURNAL.  a6j 

*  come  to  the  holy  city  ?    And  did  not  the  apoftles  fend 

*  forth  their  decrees  by  faithful  chofen  men  (that  had  ha- 

*  zarded  their  lives  for  Chrift's  fake)  to  the  churches,  by 

*  which  they  were  ellablifhed  ?    So  you,  that  deny  prefcrip- 

*  tions  given  forth  by  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  do 
'  thereby  oppofe  the  Spirit  that  gave  them  forth  in  all  the 
'  holy  men  of  God.     Were  there  not  fome  all  along  in  the 

*  days  of  Mofes,  in  the  days  of  the  prophets,  in  the  days  of 

*  Chrift,  and  in  the  days  of  his  apoll'es,  who  did  withftand 

*  that  which  they  gave  forth  from  the  Spirit  of  God  ?    And 

*  hath  there  not  been  the  like  fmce  the  days  of  the  apoftles  ? 

*  How  many  have  rifen,  fince  truth  appeared,  to  oppofe  the 

*  order  which  ftands  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God  ?  who 
'  are  but  in  the  fame  fpirit  which  hath  oppofed  the  Spirit 

*  of  God  all  along  from  the  beginning.     See  what  names  or 

*  titles  the  Spirit  of  God  gave  that  oppofmg  fpirit  in  the 

*  old  covenant,  and  alfo  in  the  new;  which  is  the  fame  now; 
'  for  after  the  Lord  had  given  forth  the  old  covenant,  there 
'  were  fome  among  themfelves  that  did  oppofe;  which  were 

*  worfe  than  publick  enemies.  And  likewife  in  the  days  of 
'  the  new  covenant,  in  the  gofpel-times,  you  may  fee  what; 

*  fort  oppofed  Chrift  and  the  apoftles  after  they  came  to 
'fome  fight  of  the  truth;  and  how  they  turned  againft 
'  Chrift  and  his  apoftles  ?    See  what  liberty  they  pleaded 

*  for  and  ran  into  in  the  apoftles  days,  who  could  not  abide 
'  the  crofs,  the  yoke  of  Jefus.     We  fee  the  f.une  rough  and 

*  high  fpirit  cries  now  for  liberty  (which  the  power  and  Spi- 
'  rit  of  Chrift  cannot  give)  and  cries,   "  Irnpofition,"  ret  is 

*  impofing ;  cries,   "  Liberty  of  confcience,"  and  yet  is  op- 

*  poling  liberty  of  confcience ;   cries  againft  prefcriptions, 

*  and  yet  is  prefcribing  both  in  words  and  writing.  So 
'  with  the  everlarting  power  and  Spirit  of  God  this  fpirit  is 
'  fathomed,  its  rife,  beginning,  and  end;  and  it  is  judged. 
'  This  Spirit  cries,  "  We  muft  not  judge  confcience,  we 
"  muft  not  judge  matters  of  faith,  we  muft  not  judge  fpirits, 
'^  nor  religions,"  Sec.  Yes :  they  that  are  in  the  pure  Spirit 
^  and  power  of  God,  which  the  apoftles  were  in,  judge  of 
'  confcience,  whether  it  be  a  feared  confcience,  or  a  tender 
'  confcience ;  they  judge  of  faith,  whether  it  be  a  dead  one, 
'  or  a  living  one  ;  they  judge  of  religion,  whether  it  be  vain, 
'  or  pure  and  undefiled  ;  they  judge  of  fpirits,  and  try  them, 
'■  whether  they  be  of  God,  or  no;  they  judge  of  hope,  whe- 
'  ther  it  be  that  of  hypocrites,  or  the  true  hope  that  purifies, 
'  even  as  God  is  pure;   they  judge  of  belief,  whetiier  it  be 


«64  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1673 

*  that  which  is  born  of  God,  and  overcometh  the  world, 

*  or  that  which  runs  into  the  fpirit  of  the  world,  which  lufts 
«  to  envy,  and  doth  not  overcome  the  world;  they  judge  of 
'  worfliips,  whether  they  be  will-worfhips.  and  the  v/orQiip 
'  of  the  beaft  and  dragon,  or  the  worfhip  of  God  in  Spirit 

*  and  in  truth  ;  they  judge  of  angels,  whether  th^y  be  fallen, 
«  or  thofe  that  keep  their  habitation  ;  they  judge  the  world, 

*  that  grieves  and  quenches  the  Spirit,  hates  the  light,  turns 

*  the  grace  of  God  into  wantonnefs,   and  refifts  the  Holy 

*  Ghoft.  They  judge  of  the  hearts,  ears  and  lips,  which 
«  are   circumcifed,   and    which   are  uncircumcifcd.      They 

*  judge  of  miniflers.  apoflles,  and  meflTepgers,  vi'hether  they 
'  be  of  Satan  or  of  Chrift.     Judge  of  differences  in  outward 

*  things,  in  the  church  or  ellewhere ;  yea.  the  lead  member 
'  of  the  church  hath  power  to  judge  of  fuch  things,  having 
'  the  one  true  meafure  and  true  weight  to  weigh  things  and 
'  meafure  things  withal,  without  relpeft  to  perfons.      This 

<  judgment  is  given,  and  all  thefe  things  are  done  by  tiie 

*  fame  power  and  Spirit  the  apoflles  were  in.  Such  alfo 
«  can  judge  of  eleftion  and  reprobation,  and  who  keep  their 

*  habitation,  and  who  not ;   who  are  Jews,   and  who  are  of 

*  the  fynagogue  of  Satan  ;  who  are  in  the  doftrine  of  Chrift, 
'  and  who  are  in  the  do6trines  of  devils;  who  prefcribes  and 
'  declares  things  from  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  to  pre- 

<  ferve  all  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  and  who  pre- 
'  fcribes  and  declares  things  from  a  loofe  fpirit,  to  let  all 
«  loofe  from  under  the  yoke  of  Chrift,  the  povs/^er  of  God, 
'  into  loofenefs  and  liberty.     Thefe  iikewifc  can  judge  and 

*  difcern  who  brings  people  into  the  poifeflion  of  the  gofpel 
«  of  light  and  life,  over  death  and  darknels,  and  into  the 
'  truth  where  the  devil  cannot  get  in ;  and  who  brings  them 
'  into  the  poffeffion  of  death  and  darknefs,  out  of  the  glori- 

<  ous  liberty  of  the  gofpel,  and  of  Jefus  Chrift,  his  faith, 
'  truth.  Spirit,  light,  and  grace.      For  there  is  no  true  liber- 

*  (y  but  in  that;    and  that  liberty  anfwers  the  grace,   the 

*  truth,  the  light,  the  Spirit,  the  faith,  the  gofpel  of  Chrift 

*  in  every  man  and  woman,  and  is  the  yoke  to  the  contrary 

*  in  every  man  and  woman.     That  makes  it  rage,  and  fwell, 

*  and  puff  up ;  for  that  is  reftlefs,  unruly,  out  of  patience, 
«  and  ready  to  curfe  his  God,  and  that  which  reigns  over 
'  him.  becaufe  it  hath  not  its  will.      It  works  with  all  fub- 

*  tilty  and  evafion  with  its  reftlefs  fpirit,  to  get  in  and  defile 
'  the  minds  of  the  fimple,  and  to  make  rapes  upon  the  vir- 

<  gin  minds.      But  as  they  receive  the  heavenly  wifdom,  by 


16783  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  26^ 

*  which  all  things  were  made  (which  wifdom  is  above  that 

*  fpirit)  through  this  wifdom  they  will  be  preferved  over 

*  that  fpirit.     And  Chrift  hath  given  judgment  to  his  faints 

*  in  his  church,  though  he  be  judge  of  all ;   and  the  faints, 

*  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  had  and  have  power  to 

*  judge  of  words  and  manners,  of  lives  and  converfations, 
'  growths,  and  ftates,  from  a  child  to  a  father  in  the  truth ; 

*  and  to  whom  they  are  a  favour  of  death,   and  to  whom 

*  they  are  a  favour  of  life ;  and  who  ferve  the  Lord  Jefus 

*  Chrift,  and  preach  him,  and  who  preach  themfelves,  and 

*  ferve  themfelves;  and  who  talk  of  the  light,  of  faith,  of 
'  the  gofpel,'  of  hope,  of  grace,    and   preach  fuch   things  ; 

*  yet  in  their  works  and  lives  deny  them  all,  and  God  and 
'  Chrift,  and  preach  up  liberty,   from  that  in  themfelves  to 

*  that  in  others,  which  fhould  be  under  the  yoke  and  crofs 
'  of  Chrift,  the  power  of  God.     So  the  faints  in  the  power 

*  and  Spirit  of  Chrift  can  difcern  and  diftinguifti  who  ferves 
'  God  and  Chrift,  and  who  ferves  him  not ;  and  can  put  a 
'  diftinftion  between  the  prophane  and  the  holy,     ^ut  fuch 

*  as  have  loft  their  eye-falve,  and  their  light  is  grown  dim, 
'  lofe   this  judgment,    difcerning,    and    diftin6lion    in    the 

*  church  of  Chrift ;  and  fuch  come  to  be  fpewed  out  of 
'  Chrift's  mouth,  except  they  repent :  and  if  not,  they  coma 

*  to  corrupt  the  earth,  and  burden  it,  that  it  vomits  them 

*  out  of  it.     Therefore  all  are  exhorted  to  keep  in  the  power 

*  and  Spirit  of  Chrift  Jefus,  in  the  word  of  life  and  the  Vv'if- 

*  dom  of  God  (which  is  above  that  which  is  below)  in  which 
'  they  may  keep  their  heavenly  underftandings  and  heaven- 

*  ly  difcernings;  and  fo  fet  the  heavenly  fpiritual  judgment 

*  over  that  which  is  for  judgment,   which  difhonours   God, 

*  which  leads  into  loofe  and  falfe  liberty ;  out  of  the  unity 
'  which  ftands  in  the  heavenly  Spirit,  which   brings  to  be 

*  conformable  to  the  image  of  the  Son  of  God,  and  his  gof- 

*  pel,  the  power  of  God  (which  was  before  the  devil  was) 
'  and  his  truth  (which  the  devil  is  out  of)  in  which  all  are  of 

*  one  mind,  heart,  and  foul,  and  come  to  drink  into  one 
'  Spirit,  being  baptized  into  one  Spirit,  and  fo  into  one  bo- 
'  dy,  which  Chrift  is  the  head  of;  and  \o  keep  one  fellow- 

*  ftiip  in  the  Spirit,  and  unity  in  the  Spirit,  which  is  the 

*  bond  of  peace,  the  Prince  of  Princes  peace.  And  thofe 
'  that  cry  fo  much  againft  judging,  and  are  afraid  ofjudg- 
'  ment,  whether  they  be  apoftles,  profelTors,  or   prophane, 

*  are  the  moft  judging  with  the  cenforious  falfe  fpirits  and 
'judgment;  yet  cannot  bear  the  true  iudgmentof  the  Spirit 

Vol.   IL  it' 


266  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [167S 

'  of  God,  nor  fland  in  his  judgment.  This  hath  been  ma- 
'  nifefl  from  the  beginning,  they  having  the  falfe  meafures  and 
'  the  falfe  weights :  for  none  have  the  true  meafure  and  the 

*  true  weight,   but  who  keep  in  the  light,  power,  and   Spi- 

*  rit  of  Chrift.  There  is  a  loofe  fpirit  that  cries  for  liberty, 
'  and  again  ft  prefcriptions,  yet  is  prefcribing  ways,  both  by 

*  words  and  writings.     The  fame  fpirit  cries  againft  judging, 

*  and  would  not  be  judged,  yet  is  judging  with  a  wrong 
'  fpirit.     This  is  given  forth  in  reproof  to  that  fpirit. 

'  G.  f: 

*  London,  the  9th  of  the 
'  4th  month,   1678.' 

When  I  had  finifhed  what  fervice  I  had  for  the  Lord  at 
this  time  here,  I  went  towards  Hertford,  vifiting  friends,  and 
having  feveral  meetings  in  the  way.  At  Hertford  I  ftaid 
feveral  days,  having  much  fervice  for  the  Lord  there ;  both 
amongll  friends  in  their  meetings,  and  in  conferences  with 
fuch  as,  having  let  in  evil  furmifmgs  and  jealoufies  concern- 
ing friends,  flood  in  oppofition  to  the  order  of  truth  ;  and 
in  anfwering  fome  books  written  againft  truth  and  friends. 
While  I  was  here,  it  came  upon  me  to  write  a  few  lines, 
and  fend  them  abroad  amongll  friends,  as  followeth : 

'  Dear  friends, 
«  T    ET  the  holy  Seed  of  life  reign  over  death  and  the  un- 
<  JL-i  holy  feed  in  you  all ;  that  in  the  holy  Seed  of  the 
'  kingdom  ye  may  all  feel  the  everlafting  holy  peace  with 
'  God,  through  Chrifl  Jefus  your  Saviour,  and  lit  down  in 

*  him,  your  life  and  glorious  reft,  the  holy  rock  and  founda- 

*  tion,  that  ftandeth  fure  over  all  from  everlafting  to  ever- 

*  lafting,  in  whom  all  the  fulnefs  of  bleffednefs  is ;  fo  that 

*  ye  may  glory  in  him  that  liveth  for  evermore,  Amen!  who 
'  is  your  eternal  joy,  life  and  happinefs,  through  whom  you 
'  have  peace  with  God.     This  holy  Seed  bruifeth  the  head 

*  of  the  ferpent,  and  will  outlive  all  his  wrath,  malice,  and 

*  envy ;  who  was  before  he  and  it  was,  and  remains  when 
'  he  and  it  is  gone  into  the  fire  that  burns  with  brimftone. 
'  The  Seed  Chrift  will  reign  ;  and  fo  will  ye,  as  ye  live  and 

*  walk  in  him,  fit  down  in  Chrift,  and  build  up  one  another 

*  in  the  love  of  God. 

'  G.  F.' 
♦  Hertford,  the  10th  of  the 
'  5th  month,  1678.' 


«€78]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  267 

Next  day  a  frefh  exercife  came  upon  me,  with  refpefl  to 
thofe  um"uly  and  diforderly  fpirits  which  were  gone  out  from 
us,  and  were  labouring  to  draw  others  after  them  into  a  falfe 
liberty.  In  the  fenfe  1  had  of  the  hurt  and  mifchief  thefe 
might  do,  where  they  were  given  way  to,  I  was  moved  to 
write  a  few  lines  to  warn  friends  of  tiiem,  as  followeth  : 

*  All  friends, 

*  T/'  EEP  in  the  tender  life  of  the  Lamb,  over  that  unru- 

*  x\.  ly,  puffed  rip  and  fwelling  fpirit,  whofe  work  is  for 

*  flrife,  contention,  and  divifion,  drawing  into  loofcnefs  and 

*  falfe   liberty,  under  a  pretence  of  confcience,  and  endan- 

*  gers  the  fpoiiing  of  youth.     Thofe   that  encourage  them 

*  will  be  guilty  of  their  deftru6lion,  and  fet  up  a  fturdy  will, 

*  inftead   of  confcience,  in  their  rage  and   paffion ;  which 

*  will  quench  the  univerfal  Spirit  in  themfelves,  and  in  eve- 

*  ry  man  and  woman ;  and  fo  that  Spirit  Ihall  not  have  li- 

*  berty  in  themfelves,  nor  in  others;  thus  they  fhut  up  the 

*  kingdom  of  heaven  in  themfelves,  and  alfo  in  others.      So 

*  a  loofe  fpirit  getting  up  under  a  pretence  of  liberty  of  con- 

*  fcience,  or  a  flubborn  will,  making  profeffion  of  the  words 

*  of  truth  in  a  form  without  power,  all  loofenefs  and  vilenefs 

*  will  be  fheltcred  and  covered  under  this  pretence,  which  is 

*  for    eternal   judgment :     for    that   doth    diflionour    God. 

*  Therefore  keep  to  the  tender  Spirit  of  God  in  all  humility, 

*  that  in  it  you  may  know  that  ye  are  all  members  of  one  an- 

*  other,  and  all  have  an  office  in  the  church  of  Chrift.      All 

*  thefe  living  members  know  one  another  in  the  Spirit,  and 

*  not  in  the  flefh.     So  here  is  no  man  ruling  over  the  vv'o- 

*  man,  as  Adam   did  over  Eve  in  the  fall ;   but   Chrifl,  the 

*  fpiritual    man,    among   and   over  his    fpiritual    members, 
'  which  are  edified  in  the  heavenly  love  that  is  fhed  in  their 

*  heart  from  God,  where  all  llrife  ccafes. 

'  G.  F.- 

*  Hertford,  the  11th  of  the 

*  5th  month,   1678.' 

I  went  from  Hertford  to  a  meeting  at  Rabley  Heath,  and 
thence  to  Edward  Crouch's  of  Stevenage.  Next  day  I  went 
to  Baldock,  where  I  had  a  meeting  that  evening,  and  after 
had  meetings  at  Hitchin  and  Afhwell.  Then  pafhng 
through  part  of  Bedfordfhire,  where  I  had  a  meeting  or  two, 
I  went  to  Huntingdon,  in  which  county  I  flaid  feveral  days, 
having  many  meetings,  and  much  fervice  amongft,  friends  ; 
L  L  2 


2(58  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1678 

labouring  to  convince  gainfayers,  and  to  confirm  and  ftrength- 
en  friends  in  the  way  and  work  of  the  Lord.  At  Ives  in 
Huntingdonfhire  George  Whitehead  came  to  me,  and  tra- 
velled with  me  in  the  work  of  the  Lord  five  or  fix  days  in 
that  county,  and  fome  part  of  Northamptonfliire.  Leaving 
me  in  Great  Bowden  in  Leicefterfliire,  he  went  towards 
Weftnioreland.  I  ftaid  in  Leicefterfhire,  vifiting  friends  at 
Saddington,  Wigflon,  Knighton,  Leicefter,  Sileby,  Swan- 
nington,  and  divers  other  places  ;  where  I  had  very  preci- 
ous meetings,  and  good  fervice  amongfl  friends  and  others  : 
lor  there  was  great  opennefs,  and  many  weighty  and  excel- 
lent truths  did  the  Lord  give  me  to  deliver  amongfl  them. 

At  Leicefler  I  went  to  the  gaol  to  vifit  the  friends  in  pri- 
fon  for  the  teftimony  of  Jefus,  with  whom  I  fpent  fome 
time,  encouraging  them  in  the  Lord  to  perfevere  fleadfaftly 
and  faithfully  in  their  teftimony,  and  not  to  be  weary  of  fuf- 
fering  for  his  fake.  And  when  I  had  taken  my  leave  of  the 
friends,  I  fpoke  with  the  gaoler,  defiring  him  to  be  kind 
to  them,  and  let  them  have  what  hberty  he  could,  to  vifit 
their  families  fometimes. 

I  had  a  meeting  or  two  in  Warwickfiiire,  and  then  went 
into  StafFordfliire,  where  I  had  feveral  fweet  and  opening 
meetings,  both  for  gathering  into  truth,  and  eftabliftiing 
therein.  While  I  was  in  StafFordlhire,  I  was  moved  to 
give  forth  the  following  paper  : 

'  T^EAR  friends  of  the  quarterly  and  monthly  meetings 
'  X^  every   where  :    My  defire  is,  that  you  may  all  fl;rive 

*  to  be  of  one  mind  in  the  Lord's  power  and  truth,  which  is 

*  peaceable  (into  which  flrife  and  enmity  cannot  come)  and 

*  alio  in  the  wifdom  of  God,  which  is  pure,  peaceable,  and 

*  eafy  to  be  intreated  (v/hich  is  above  that  which  is  below, 
'  that  is  earthly,  devihfh,  and  fenfual)  and  that  in  this  hea-. 

*  venly  wifdom   that  is   peaceable,  and  eafy  to  be  intreated, 

*  you  may  be  all  ordered,  and  do  what  ye  do  to  God's  glo- 

*  ry.  And  dear  friends,  if  there  fhould  happen  at  any  time 
'  any  thing  that  tends  to  ftrife,  difpute,  or  contention  in 
'  your  monthly  or  quarterly  meetings,  let  it  be  referred  to 
'  half  a  dozen,  or  fuch  a  like  number  to  debate  and  end  out 

*  of  your  meetings,  as  it  was  at  firfl,  that  all  your  monthly 
<  and  quarterly  meetings  may  be  kept  peaceable.      And  then 

*  they  may  inform  the  meeting  what  they  have  done ;   that 

*  the    weak    and    youth    amongft    you    may  not  be    hurt, 

*  ihrough  hearint^  of  ftrife  or  coutentiun  in  your  meetiigs, 


1678]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  269 

*  where  no  flrife  or  contention  ought  to  be  :  but  all  to  go  on, 

*  and  determine  things  in  one  mind,  in  the  power  of  God, 

*  the  gofpel-order  ;  in  which  gofpel  of  peace  ye  will  preferve 

*  the  peace  of  all  your  meetings.     If  any   man  or  woman 

*  have  any  thing  againfl  any  one,  let  them  fpeak  to  one  an- 

*  other,  and  end  it  betwixt  themfelves  ;  if  they  cannot  fo  end 

*  it,  let  them  take  two  or  three  to  end  it.      In  cafe  thefe  de- 

*  termine  it  not,  let  it  be  laid  before   the  church  ;  and  let 

*  half  a  dozen,  or  a  proper  number  out  of  your  monthly  or 

*  quarterly   meeting  hear  it,  and  finally  end  it,  with6ut  ref- 

*  pe6l  of  perfons.      Let  all  prejudice  be  laid  afide  and  buri- 

*  ed  ;  alfo  all  fhortnefs  one  towards  another  ;  and  let  love, 
'  which  is  not  puffed  up,  envies  not,  feeks  not  her  own,  but 
'  bears  all  things,  have  the  dominion  in  all  your  meetings; 

*  for  that  doth  edify  the  body  which  Chrift  is  the  head  of, 

*  and  this  will  rule  over  all  founding  biafs  and  tinkling  cym- 

*  bals.     This  love  will    fufFer  long,  and  is  kind;  will  keep 

*  down  that  which  would  vaunt  itfelf,  be  puffed  up,  behave 

*  itfelf  unfeemly,  or  is  eafily  provoked  :  it  hath  a  fway  over 

*  all  fuch  fruits  which  are  not   of  the    Spirit,  the  fruit  of 

*  which  is  love,  &c.     And  that   with  this  Holy  Spirit  ye 

*  may  all  be  baptized  into  one  body,  and  be  made  to  drink 

*  into  one  Spirit ;  in  which   Spirit  ye   will  have  unity,   in 

*  which  is  the  bond  of  the  King  of  kings  and  the   Lord  of 

*  lords  his  peace.     They  that  dwell  in  love,  dwell  in  God, 

*  for  God  is  love  :  therefore  let  every  one  keep  his  habita- 

*  tion.     My  love  to  you  in  Chrift  Jefus,  the  everlafling 

*  Seed,  which  is  aver  all. 

*  G.  f: 

*  Staffordfhire,  the  20th  of  the 
*  6th  month,   1678.' 

Out  of  Staffordfhire  I  went  to  vifit  John  Gratton  at  Mo- 
niafh  in  Derby fhire,  with  whom  I  tarried  one  night,  and 
went  next  day  to  William  Shaw's,  of  the  Hill  in  Yorkfhire, 
where  I  appointed  a  meeting  to  be  on  firft-day  following. 
Many  friends  out  of  Derbyfhire,  and  from  feveial  meetings 
in  Yorkfhire  came,  and  a  precious,  comfortable  meeting  it 
was ;  wherein  was  opened  the  bleffed  eftate  that  man  was  in 
before  he  fell ;  the  means  by  which  he  fell,  the  miferable 
condition  into  which  he  fell,  and  the  right  way  of  coming 
out  of  it  into  a  happy  flate  again  by  Chrifl,  die  promifed 
Seed. 

I  fpent  about  two  weeks  in  Yorkfliire,  and  many  heaven- 


27©  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [167^ 

ly  meetings  I  had  in  that  county.  Then  vifiting  Robert 
Widders  at  Kellet  in  Lancafhiie,  I  paffed  to  Arnfide  in 
Weftmoreland,  where  I  had  a  precious  living  meeting  in  the 
Lord's  blelFed  power,  to  the  great  fatisfaftion  and  comfort 
of  friends,  who  came  from  divers  parts  to  it.  The  next  day 
I  went  to  Swarthmore  :  and  it  being  the  meeting-day  there, 
I  had  a  fweet  opportunity  with  friends  ;  our  hearts  being 
opened  in  the  love  of  God,  and  his  blefled  hfe  flowing 
amongft  us. 

I  had  not  been  long  at  Swarthmore  ere  a  concern  came 
upon  me  to  vifit  the  churches  of  Chrift,  by  an  epiftie  as  fol- 
iovyeth  : 

'  Dear  friends, 

*  nr^O  you  is  my  love  in  the  heavenly  Seed,  in  whom  all 
'    A.    nations  are  blelFed.     Oh,  keep  all  in  this  Seed,  in 

*  which  ye  are  bleffed,  and  in  which  Abraham  and  all  the 

*  faithful  were  bleffed,  without  the  deeds  of  the  law :  for  the 

*  promife  was  and  is  to  and  with  the  Seed,  and  not  with  the 

*  law  of  the  firft  covenant.     In  this  Seed  all  nations  and 

*  ye  are  bleffed,  which  bruifeth  the  head  of  the  feed  that 

*  brought  the  curfe,  and  feparated  man  from  God.     This  is 

*  the  Seed  which  reconciles  you  to  God ;  and  this  is  the  Seed 
'  in  which  ye  are  bleffed  both  in  temporals  and  fpirituals ; 

*  through  which  ye  have  an  inheritance  among  the  fanctified, 

*  that  cannot  be  defiled,  neither  can  any  defiled  thing  enter 

*  into  its  poffeflion ;  for  all  defilements  are  out  of  his  Seed. 
'  This  is  that  which  leavens  into  a  new  lump,  and  bruifeth 

*  the  head  of  the  wicked  feed  that  leavens  into  the  old  lump, 

*  upon  whom  the  fun  of  righteoufnefs  goes  down  and  fets,  but 

*  never  goes  dov^^n  and  fets  to  them  that  walk  in  the  Seed  in 
'  which  all   nations  are  bleffed;  by   which  Seed  they  are 

*  brought  up  to  God,  which  puts  dpwn  that  feed  which  fe- 

*  pa^ated  them  from  God,  fo  that  there  comes  to  be  nothing  be^ 

*  tmxt  them  and  God.     Now  all  my  dear  friends,  my  defires 

*  are,  that  ye  may  all  be  valiant  in  this  heavenly  Seed  for  God 

*  and  his  truth  upon  the  earth,  and  fpread  it  abroad,  an- 
'  fwering  that  of  God  in  all ;  that  with  it  the  minds  of  peo- 
'  pie  may  be  turned  towards  the  Lord,  that  he  may  come 
'  to  be  known,  fcrved,  and  worfhipped,  and  that  ye  may  all 
'  be  as  the  ialt  of  the  earth,  to  make  the  unfeafoned  favoury. 
'  And  in  the  name  of  Jefus  keep  your  meetings,  who  arc 
'  gathered  into  it,  in  whofc  name  ye  have  falvation  ;  he  be- 
'  ing  in  the  midii  of  yoq,  wliofe  name  is  above  every  name 


1678]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  ip 

*  under  the  whole  heaven.     So  ye  have  a  Prophet,  Bifhop, 

*  Shepherd,   Prieft,  and  Counfellor  (aKove  all  the  counfel- 

*  lors,  priefts,  bifhops,  prophets,  and  fhepherds  under  the 
'  whole  heaven)  to  exercife  his  offices  among  you,  in  your 
'  meetings,  gathered  in  his  name.     For  Chrift's  meeting  and 

*  gathering  is  above  all  the  meetings  and  gatherings  under 
'  the  whole  heaven ;  and  his  body,  his  church,  and  he  the 
'  head  of  it,  is  above  all  the  bodies,  churches,   and  heads 

*  under  the  whole  heaven.  And  the  faith  that  Chrift  is  the 
'  author  of,    and  the  worfhip  that  he  hath  fet  up,  and  his 

*  fellowfhip  in  the  gofpel,  is  above  all  hillorical  taiths,  and 
'  the  faiths  that  men  have  made,   together  with  their  wor- 

*  iliips  and  fellowftiips  under  the  whole  heaven.     And  now, 

*  dear  friends,  keep  your  men's  and  women's  meetings  in  the 

*  power  of  God,  the  gofpel,  the  authority  of  them,  which 

*  brings  life  and  immortality  to  light  in  you  j  and  this  gel- 
'  pel,  the  power  of  God,   will  preferve  you  in  life  and  in 

*  immortality  (which  hath  brought  it  to  light  in  you)  thae 

*  ye  may  fee  over  him  that  hath  darkened  and  kept  from 

*  the  knowledge  of  the  things  of  God  :   for  it  is  he  and  his 

*  inftruments  (which  hath  darkened  you  from  life  and  im- 

*  mortality)  that  would  throw  down  your  men's  and  wc- 
'  men's  meetings  (which  were  fet  up  in  the  power  of  God, 

*  the  gofpel)  and  would  darken  you  again  from  this  life  and 

*  immortality  which  the  gofpel  hath  brought  to  light,   and 

*  will   preferve  you    therein,   as   your  faith  Hands   in  this 

*  power  of  God,  the  gofpel,  in  which  every  one  fees  your 
'  work  and  fervice  for  God.     Every  heir  in  the  power  of 

*  God,  the  gofpel,  hath  right  to  this  authority,  which  is  not 

*  of  man  nor  by  man;  which  gofpel,  the  power  of  God,  is 

*  everlafting,  an  everlalling  order,  an  everiailing' fellowfhip  : 

*  and  in  the  gofpel  is  everlafting  joy,  comfort,  and  peace, 

*  which  will  outlaft  all  thofe  joys,  comforts,  and  peaces  that 

*  will  have  an  end,  and  that  fpirit  alfo  that  oppolcs  its  order 

*  and  glorious  fellowfinip,  peace  and  comfort  in  it.      And, 

*  my  dear  friends,   my  defne  is,   that  ye  may  keep  in  the 

*  unity  of  the  Spirit,  that  baptizes  you  all  into  one  body, 

*  which  Chrift  is  the  heavenly  and  fpiritual  head  of,  fo  that 

*  ye  may  fee  and  bear  witnefs  to  your  heavenly  and  fpiritu- 

*  al  head,   and  fo  all  drink  into  the  one  Spirit,  which  all 

*  people  on  the  earth  are  not  like  to  do,  while  they  grieve, 
'  quench,  and  rebel  againll  it,  nor  to  be  baptized  into  on^ 
'  body,   and  to  keep  the  unity  of  the  Spint,  which  is  the 

*  bond  of  peace,  yea  the  King  of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords 


272  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  1:167s 

*  his  peace ;  which  is  the  duty  of  all  true  Chriflians  to  keep, 
'  who  are  inwardly  united  to  Chrift.  My  love  to  you  all 
'  in  the  everlafting  Seed. 

'  G.  f: 

*  Swarthmore,  the  26th  of 
'  the  7th  month,  1678/ 

There  were  about  this  time  feveral  friends  in  prifon  fof 
bearing  teftimony  to  the  truth ;  to  whom  I  was  moved  to 
write  a  few  lines  to  comfort,  ftrengthen,  and  encourage 
them ;  having  a  true  fenfe  of  their  fufFerings  upon  my  fpi- 
rit,  and  a  fympathizing  with  them  therein.  That  v/hich  I 
wrote  was  after  this  manner : 

*  My  dear  Friends, 

'  T  T^fHO  are  fufFerers  for  the  Lord  Jefus  fake,  and  for 
'     V  V    the  teftimony  of  his  truth,  the  Lord  God  Almightj' 

*  with  his  power  uphold  and  fupport  you  in  all  your  trials 

*  and  fufFerings,  and  give  you  patience  and  content  in  his 
'  will  that  ye  may  ftand  valiant  for  Chrift  and  his  truth 
'  upon   the  earth,    over  the   perfecuting  deftroying  fpirit, 

*  which  makes  to  fuff^er  in  Chrift  (who  bruifes  the  head)  in 
'  whom  ye  have  both  ele6lion  and  falvation.  For  his  ele6t's 
'  fake  the  Lord  hath  done  much  from  the  foundation  of  the 
'  world,  as  may  be  feen  throughout  the  fcriptures  of  truth. 
'  They  that  touch  them  touch  the  apple  of  God's  eye,  they 
'  are  fo  tender  to  him  ;  and  therefore  it  is  good  for  his  fuf- 

*  fering  children  to  truft  in  the  Lord,  and  to  wait  upon  him; 
'  for  they  ftiall  be  as  mount  Sion,  that  cannot  be  removed 
'  from  Chrift  their  rock  and  falvation,  the  foundation  of  all 

*  the  ele6l  of  God,  of  the  prophets  and  apoftles,  and  of 
'  God's  people  now  and  to  the  end ;  glory  to  the  Lord  and 
'  the  Lamb  over  all !  Remember  my  dear  love  to  all  friends, 
'  and  do  not  think  the  time  long ;  for  all  time  is  in  the  Fa- 

*  ther's  hand,  his  pov/er.  Therefore  keep  the  word  of  pa- 
'  tience,  and  exercife  that  gift.     The  Lord  ftrengthen  yoa 

*  in  your  fufFerings,  in  his  holy  Spirit  of  faith.    Amen. 

'  G.  f: 

'  Swarthmore,  the  5th  of  the 
*  12th  month,  1678.' 

I  abode  in  the  north  above  a  year,  ha^'ing  fervice  for  the 
Lord  amongft  friends  there,  and  being  much  taken  up  in 
writing  in  anfwer  to  books  publifhed  by  adverfaiies;  and  for 


16793  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  273 

opening  the  principles  and  doclrines  of  truth  to  the  world, 
that  they  might  come  to  have  a  right  underftanding  thereof, 
and  be  gathered  thereunto.  Several  epiftles  a! To  I  wrote  to 
friends  in  this  time.  One  was  to*' the  yearly  meeting  held 
in  London  this  year,  1679;  a  copy  of  which  here  follows  : 

*  My  dear  friends  and  brethren, 
'  T  "^THO  are  affembled  together  in  the  name  and  power 

*  VV  of  the  Lord  Jelus   Chiift,  grace,  mercy,  and  peace 

*  from  God  the  Father,  and  from  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrifl,  fill 

*  all  your  hearts,  and  eftabiifh  you  in  his  grace,  mercy,  and 

*  peace  upon  Chrifl,  the  holy  living  Rock  and  Foundation, 

*  who  is  the  Firft  and  Laft,  and  over  ail  the  foundations  and 
'  rocks  in  the  whole  world ;  a  Rock  and  Foundation  of  life 

*  for  all  the  living  to  build  upon,  which  (lands  fure  in  his 

*  heavenly,  divine  light,  which  is  the  life  in  him ;  by  whom 

*  all  things  were  made,  who  is  the  precious   Stone  laid  in 

*  Sion  (and  not  in  the  world)  which  all  the  wife  mailer- 
'  builders  rejeded,  who  pretended  to  build  people  up  to 
'  heaven  with  the  words  of  the  prophets,  and  the  law  from 
'  mount  Sinai,  but  out  of  the  life  of  both  :   therefore  fuch 

*  builders  could  not  receive  the  law  of  life  from  Chrifl;,  the 

*  precious  Stone  laid  in  Sion,  nor  the  word  from  heavenly 

*  Jerufalem.      But  you,  my  dear  friends,  that  have  received 

*  this  law  from  heavenly  Sion,  and  the  word  from  heavenly 
'  Jerufalem,  in  the  new  covenant,  where  the  life  and  fub- 

*  ftance  is  enjoyed,  you  fee  the  end  and  aboliihing  of  the 
'  Jews  law  and  ceremonies  from  mount  Sinai.      And  there- 

*  fore  my  defire  is,  that  you  may  all  keep  in  the  law  of  life 

*  and  love,  which  ye  have  in  Chrifl;  Jefus,  by  which  love 

*  the  body  is  edified,  knit,  and  united  together   to  Chrifl; 

*  Jefus,  the  Head.  Which  love  doth  bear  all  things,  fulfils 
'  the  law,  will  preferve  all  in  humility,  and  in  it  to  be  of 
'  one  mind,  heart,  and  foul.     So  all  may  come  to -drink  into 

*  that  one   Spirit,   that  dolh  baptize  them  and  circumcife 

*  them,  plunging  down  and  cutting  off  the  body  of  the  fins 
'  of  the  flefli,  that  is  got  up  in  man  and  woman  by  their 
'  tranfgreffing  of  God's  commands.      So   that  in  this  holy 

*  pure   Spirit  all  may   ferve  and  worfliip  the  pure   God  in 

*  ipirit  and  in  truth,  which  is  over  all  the  worfhips  that  are 

*  out  of  God's  Spirit  and  his  truth.  In  this  Spirit  ye  will 
'  all  have  a  fpiritual  unify  and  fellowfliip  over  all  the  fellov/- 
'  Ihips  of  the  unclean  fpirits,  which  are  out  of  truth  in  the 
•'  world.     By  this  holy  Spirit  all  your  hearts,   minds,  and 

^^oi..    II.  .M  .M 


274'  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1679 

'  fouls  may  be  knit  together  to  Chrift,  from  whence  it  comes  ; 

*  and  by  the  grace  and  truth,  which  is  come  by  Jefus 
'  Chrift,  which  all  fhould  be  under  the  teachings  of  in  the 
'  new  covenant,    and   not  under  the  law,   as  the  outward 

*  Jews  were  in  the  old  covenant.  By  this  grace  and  truth 
*>  in  the  new  covenant,  all  may  be  made  God's  free  men. 
'  and  women,  to  ferve  God  in  the  new  life,  the  new  and 
'  living  way  ;  (hewing  forth  the  fruits  of  the  new  heart  and 
'  new  Spirit,  in  the  new  covenant,  over  death  and  darknefs. 
'  Glory  be  to  the  Lord  for  ever !  In  this  grace  and  truth 
'  is  heavenly,  gracious,   and  true  liberty  to  every  fpiritual 

*  mind,  which  makes  you  free  from  him  that  is  out  of  truth, 
'  where  your  bondage  was.  Alfo  your  liberty  in  the  holy, 
'  divine,  and  precious  faith,  which  gives  you  vi6lory  over 

*  that  which  once  feparated  you  from  God  and  Chrift,  by 

*  which  faith  ye  have  accefs  to  God  again  through  Jefus- 
'  Chrift.  So  in  this  divine  and  holy  faith,  ye  have  divine, 
<  holy,  and  precious  liberty,  yea  and  vi6lory  over  him  that 
'  feparated  you  from  God ;  and  this  faith  is  held  in  a  pure 

*  confcience.     So  the  liberty  in  the  fpirit  of  God  is  in  that 

*  which  baptizes  and  plunges  down  fin  and  iniquity,  and 
'  puts  oS^  the  body  of  death  and  fins  of  the  flefh,  that  are 
'  got  up  by  tranrgrefling  God's  command.  And  alfo  the 
'  liberty  of  the  gofpel,  which  is  fent  from  heaven  by  the 
'  Holy  Ghoft,  which  is  the  power  of  God,  which  was  and 
'  is  again  to  be  preached  to  all  nations ;   in  this  gofpel  is 

*  the  true  liberty,  and  the  gofpel-fellowftiip  and  order.  So 
'  that  the  evil  fpirit  or  confcience,  or  falfe  dead  faith,  that 
'  which  is  ungracious,  out  of  truth,  and  not  in  the  Spirit  of 

*  God,  nor  in  his  gofpel,  nor  in  the  divine  faith,  its  liberty  is 
'  in  the  darknefs ;   for  all  true  liberty  is  in  the  gofpel,  and 

*  in  the  truth  that  makes  free ;  in  the  faith,  in  the  grace,  and 
'  in  Chrift  Jefus,  who  deftroys  the  devil  and  his  works,  that 

*  hath  brought  all  mankind  into  bondage.      So  in  this  hea- 

*  venly,  peaceable  Spirit,  truth,  and  faith,  which  works  by 
«  love,  and  in  the  gofpel  of  peace,  and  in  Chrift  Jefus  is  all 

*  the  faints  peace,  and  pure,  tiuie,  and  holy  liberty;  in  which 

*  they  have  fait,  fcnfe,  feeling,  difcerning,  and  favour,  yea 

*  and  unity  and  fellowftiip  one  with  another,  and  with  the 

*  Son  and  the  Father,  that  heavenly,  eternal  fellowftiip.  So 
'  all  being  fubjed  to  the  grace  and  truth,  and  to  the  faith 
'  and  gofpel  (the  power  of  God)  and  to  his  good  Spirit,  in 

*  this  they  diflinguifti  all  true,  pure,  and  holy  liberty  from 

*  that  which  is  falfe.     This  will  bring  all  to  fit  low;  for  pa- 


1679]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL,  275 

*  tience  runs  the  race,  and  the  Lamb  mufl  have  the  vi6lory  ; 
■•.and  not  the  rough,  unruly,  and  vain  talkers,  unbaptized, 

*  uncircumcifed,  and  unfan6lified.      Such  travel  not  in  the 

*  way  of  regeneration,  but  in  the  way  of  unregeneration  : 

*  neither  go  they  down  into  the  death  with  Chrifl  by  bap- 

*  tifm.      Such  are  not  like  to  reign  with  him  in  bis  refur- 

*  re6lion,  who  are  not  buried  with  him  in  baptifm.     There- 

*  fore  all  mud  go  downward  into  the  death  of  Chrifl,  and 

*  be  crucified  with  him,  if  they  will  arife  and  follow  him  in 

*  the  regeneration  before  they  come  to  reign  with  him.    And, 

*  friends,  many  may  have  precious  openings ;   but  I  defire 

*  all  may  be  comprehended  in  that  which   doth   open  to 

*  them,  and  that  they  may  all  keep  in  the  daily  crofs ;  then 

*  they  keep  in  the  power  that  kills  and  crucifies  that  which 

*  would  lead  them  amongft  the  beafts  and  goats,  to  leaven 

*  them  into  their  rough,   unruly  fpirit ;   that  through  the 
*■  crofs,  the  power  of  God,  that  may  be  crucified,  and  they 

*  in  the  power  might  follow  the  Lamb.      For  the  power  of 

<  God  keeps  all  in  order,  fubjeftion,  and  humility,  in  that 

*  which  is  lovely,  virtuous,  decent,  comely,  temperate,  and 

*  moderate ;  fo  that  their  moderation  comes  to  appear  to  all 

*  men.     My  defire  is,  that  all  your  lights  may  fliine  as  from 

*  a  city  fet  upon  a  hill,  that  cannot  be  hid;  and  that  ye  may 
'  be  the  fait  of  the  earth,  to  fait,  feafon,  and  make  it  favoury 

*  to  God,  and  you  all  feafoned  with  it.     Then  all  your  fa- 

*  orifices  will  be  a  fweet  favour  to  the  Lord,  and  ye  will  be 

*  as  the  lilies  and  rofes,  and  garden  of  God,  which  gives  a 

*  fweet  fmell  unto  him :    whofe  garden  is  preferred  by  his 

<  power,  the  hedge  that  hedges  out  all  the  unruly  and  un- 

*  favoury,  the  deftroyers  and  hurters  of  the  vines,  buds,  and 

*  plants,  and  God's  tender  blade,  which  fprings  up  from  his 

*  feed  of  life,  who  waters  it  with  his  heavenly  water  and  word 

*  of  life  every  moment,  that  they  ma)^  grow  and  be  fruitful ; 

*  that  fo  he  may  have  a  pleafant  and  fruitful  garden.     Here 

*  all  are  kept  frefh  and  green,  being  watered  every  moment 

*  with  the  everlafling  holy  water  of  life  from  the  Lord,  the 
'  fountain.      My  dear  friends,  my  defire  is,  that  this  hea- 

*  venly  feed,  tliat  bruifes  down  the  head  of  the  ferpent  both 

*  within  and  without,  may  be  your  crown  and  life,  and  ye 

*  in  him  one  another's  crown  and  jo}',  to  the  praife  of  the 

*  Lord  God  over  all,  bleffed  for  evermore.     This  holy  feed 
'  will  outlafl  and  wear  out  all  that  which  the  evil  feed  fince 

*  the  fall  of  man  hath  brought  forth  and  fet  up.      As  every 
'  one  hath  received  Chrill  Jefus  the  Lord,  f^  walk  in  him 

M   M    q 


276  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1679 

'  in  the  humility  which  he  teaches  :  and  fhun  the  occafions 
'  of  ftrife,  vain  janglings,  and  difputings  with  men  of  cor- 
'  rupt  minds,  who  are  deflitiUe  of  the  truth  ;   for  the  truth 

*  is  peaceable,  the  golpel  is  a  peaceable  habitation  in  the 
'  power  of  God;  his  v/ifdom  is  peaceable  and  gentle,  and 
'  his  kingdom  ftands  in  peace.      Oh  !   his  glory  Ihines  over 

*  all  his  works!  in  Chrift  Jefus  ye  will  have  peace,  who 
'  is  not  of  the  world ;   yea  a  peace  that  the  world  cannot 

*  take  away ;  for  the  peace  which  ye  have  from  him  was  be- 
'  fore  the  world  was,  and  will  be  when  it  is  gone.  This 
'  keeps  all  in  that  which  is  weighty  and  lubflantial  over  all 
'  chaff.  Glory  to  the  Lord  God  over  all  for  ever  and 
'  ever !     Amen. 

'  And  now,  my  dear  friends,  the  Lord  doth  require  more 

*  of  you  than  he  doth  of  other  people,  becaufe  he  hath  com- 
'  mitted  more  to  you.  He  requires  the  fruits  of  his  Spirif, 
'  of  the  light,  of  the  gofpel.  of  the  grace,  and  of  the  truth  ; 
'  for  herein  is  he  glorified  (as  Chrift  faid)  in  your  bringing 

*  forth  much  fruit,  fruits  of  righteoufnefs,  holinefs,  godlinefs, 

*  virtue,  truth,  and  purity;  fo  that  ye  may  anfwer  that  which 
'  is  of  God  in  all  people.  Be  valiant  for  his  everlafting, 
'  glorious  gofpel,  in  God's  holy  Spirit  and  truth,  keeping  in 
'  the  unity,  and  in  the  holy  Spirit,  light,  and  life,  which  is 

*  over  death  and  darknefs,   and  was  before  death  and  dark- 

*  nefs  were.  In  this  Spirit  we  have  the  bond  of  peace, 
'  which  cannot  be  broken  except  ye  go  from  the  Spirit,  and 

*  then  ye  lofe  this  unity  and  bond  of  peace,  which  ye  have 

*  from  the  Prince  of  peace, 

'  The  world  alfo  experts  more  from  friends  than  from 
'  other  people  ;  becaufe  you  profefs  more.  Therefore  you 
'  fhould  be  more  ju ft  than  others  in  your  ^vords  and  dealings, 

*  more  righteous,  holy  and  pure  in  your  lives  and  conver- 

*  fations,  fo  that  your  lives  and  converfations  may  preach. 
'  For  the  world's  tongues  and  mouths  have  preached  long 
'  enough  ;  but  their  lives  and  converfations  have  denied 
'  what  their  tongues  have  profeiTed  and  declared. 

'  And.  dear  friends,  ftrive  to  excel  one  another  in  virtue, 
'  that  ye  may  grow  in  love,  that  excellent  way  which  unites 

*  all  to  Chnft  :>nd  God.  Suind  up  for  God's  glory,  and 
'  mind  that  which  concerns  the  Lord's  honour,  that  in  no 
'  wife  his  power  may  be  abufed,  nor  his  name  evil  fpoken  of 
'  by  any  evil  talkers  or  walkers;  but  that  in  all  things  God 
^  may  be  honoured,  and  ye  may  glorify  him  in  your  bodies, 
^  fouls,  and  fpirits.  the  little  time  ye  have  to  live.      My  love 


1679]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  277 

*  to  you  all  in  the  holy    Seed  of  Life,  that  reigns  over  all, 

*  and  is  the  firfl  and  laft,  in  whom  ye  all  have  life  and   fal- 

*  vation,  and  your  eletlion  and  peace  with  God,  through 
'  Jefus  Chnft,  who  deftroys  him  that  hath  been  betwixt  you 

*  and  God ;   fo  that  nothing  may  be  betwixt  you  and  the 

*  Lord  but  Chrift  Jefus.     Amen. 

'  My  life  and  love  is  to  you  all,  and  amongfl;  you  all. 
'  The  Lord  God  Almighty  by  his  mighty  power,  by  which 

*  he  hath  preferved  his  people  unto  this  day,  preferve  and 

*  keep  you  all  in  his  power,  and  peaceable   holy  truth,   in 

*  unity  and   fellowfliip  one  v^ith  another,  and  with  the  Son 

*  and  the  Father.     Amen. 

•  G.  F.' 
'  The  24th  of  the  3d 
*  month,  1679.* 

Divers  other  epiftles  and  papers  I  wrote  to  friends  dur- 
ing my  flay  in  the  north  ;  one  was  '  To  encourage  friends 
'  to  be  bold  and  valiant  for  the  truth,  which  the  Lord  had 

*  called  them  to  bear  witnefs  to.*     It  was  thus : 

*  Dear  friends, 

*  A    LL  be  valiant  for  the  Lord's  truth   upon  the  earth, 

*  jLJL  which  the  ferpent,  fatan,  the  devil  is  out  of;  and 
'  in  the  truth  keep  him  out,  in   which  you  all  have  peace, 

*  life,  and  unity  with  God  and  his  Son,  and  one  with  an- 
'  other.  Let  the  love  of  God  fill  all  your  hearts,  that  in  it 
'  ye  may  build  up  and  edify  one  another  in  the  light,  life, 

*  holy  Spirit,  and  power  of  God,  the  glorious  comfortable 
'  gofpel  of  Chrill,  the  heavenly  Man,  your  Lord  and  Sa- 
'  viour,  who  will  fill  all  your  veffeis  with  his  heavenly  wine 
'  and  water  of  life,  clothe  you  with  his  heavenly  cloathing, 

*  his  fine  linen  that  never  waxeth  old ;  and  arm  you  with 
'  his  heavenly  armour,  that  ye  may  iland  faithful  witnelTes 
'  for  God  and  his  Son,  who  is  come  and  hath  given  you 
'  an  underflanding  to  know  him,   and   ye  are  in  him.      So 

*  walk  in  him,  in  v/hom  ye  all  have  life  and  faivation,  and 
'  peace  with   God.     My   love  to  you  in  the   Lord  Jefus 

*  Chrift,  in  whom  I  have  laboured;  and  God  Almighty,  iq 
<  his  eternal  power  and  wifdom,  preferve  you  to  his  glory, 
'  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  Swarthmore,  the  29th  of  the 
'  loth  month,  1679.' 


278  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1679 

The  next  day  having  a  fenfe  upon  me  that  fome  who  had 
received  the  truth,  and  had  openings  thereof,  for  want  of 
keeping  low  had  run  out  therefrom,  I  was  moved  to  give 
forth  the  following  epiftle,  as  a  '  warning  and  exhortation 

*  to  all  to  dwell  in  humility.' 

'  My  dear  friends, 

*  T^7HOM  the  Lord  in  his  tender  mercies  hath  vifited 

*  V  V    with  the  day-fpring  from  on  high,  and  hath  opened 

*  you  to  confefs  and  bow  to  his  name ;  keep  low  in  your 

*  minds,  and  learn  of  Chrifl:  who  teacheth  you  humility,  to 

*  keep  in  it ;  fo  that  in  no  wife  ye  that  be  younger  be  ex- 

*  alted,  puffed  up,  or  conceited  through  your  openings,  and 

*  by  that  means  lofe  your  conditions,  by  being  carried  up 

*  into  prefumption ;  then  fall  into  defpair,  and  fo  abufc  the 

*  power  of  God.     For  it  was  the  apoflles  care,  that  none 

*  fhould  abufe  the  power  of  the   Lord   God ;  but  in  all 

*  things  their  faith  was  to  ftand  therein,  that  they  all  might 

*  be  comprehended  into  the  truth  which   they   fpoke    to 

*  others,  that  they  might  not  be  preachers  to  others  and 

*  themfelves  caft-aways.     Therefore  it  doth  concern  you  to 

*  be  comprehended  into  that  which  ye  preach  to  others,  and 
'  keep  low  in  it ;  then  the  God  of  truth  will  exalt  the  hum- 

*  ble  in  his  truth,  light,  grace,  power,  and  Spirit,  and  in  his 

*  wifdom  to  his  glory.      Here  all  are  kept  in  their  meafures 

*  of  grace,  light,  faith,  and  the  Spirit  of  Chrifl,  the  heavenly 

*  and  fpiritual  Man.     So  let  none  quench  the  Spirit,  nor  its 

*  motions,  nor  grieve  it,  nor  err  from  it ;  but  be  led  by  it, 

*  which  keeps  every  one  in  their  tents ;  which    Holy   Spirit 

*  of  God  giveth  them  an  underflanding,  how  to  ferve,  wor- 
'  Ihip,  and  pleafe  the  holy,  pure   God,  their   Maker   and 

*  Creator  in  Chrifl  Jefus,  and  how  to  wait,  fpeak,  and  an- 

*  fwer  the  Spirit  of  God  in  his  people :  in  which  holy  Spi- 

*  rit  is  the  holy  unity  and   fellowfhip.     The   holy  Spirit 

*  teacheth  the  holy,  gentle,  meek,  and  quiet  lowly  mind  to 
Vanfwer   the   feed  that  Chrifl  hath  fown  upon  all  grounds; 

*  and  to  anfwer  the  light,  grace,  and  Spirit,  and  the  gofpel 
'  in  every  creature,  though  they  are  gone  from  the  Spirit, 
^  grace,  light,  and  gofpel  in  the  heart.  So  by  holy  walk- 
'  ing  all  may  come  to  do  it,  as  well  as  by  holy  preaching, 
'  that  God  in  all  things  may  be  glorified  by  you,  and  that 

*  ye  may  bring  forth  fruits  to  his  praife.     Amen. 

'  Swarthmore,  the  30th  of  the  *  G.   F." 

'  loth  month,  1679.' 


1679]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  s^9 

About  the  latter  end  of  this  year  I  was  moved  of  the 
Lord  to  travel  into  the  fouth  again.  I  fet  forward  the  be- 
ginning of  the  firft  month,  1679-80,  and  paffing  through 
part  of  Weftmoreland  and  Lancafhire,  I  vifited  friends  at 
leveral  meetings,  and  came  into  Yorkfhire.  Divers  large 
and  weighty  meetings  I  had  in  Yorkfhire,  before  I  came  to 
York  city.  When  I  came  there  it  was  the  affize-time,  and 
there  being  many  friends  in  prifon  for  truth's  fake,  I  put 
thofe  at  liberty  upon  drawing  up  the  fuflPerings  of  the  friends 
in  prifon,  that  they  might  be  laid  before  the  judges ;  and  I 
affifted  them  therein.  The  quarterly  meeting  of  friends  was 
alfo  at  that  time,  fo  I  had  a  brave  opportunity  amongft 
them.  Many  weighty  and  ferviceable  things  did  the  Lord 
open  through  me  to  the  meeting,  relating  to  the  inward 
ftate  of  man  ;  how  man  by  faith  in  Chrift  comes  to  be  graft- 
ed into  him,  and  made  a  member  of  his  fpiritual  body ; 
and  alfo  the  outward  ftate  of  the  church,  how  each  member 
ought  to  walk  and  aft,  according  to  its  place  in  the  body. 
I  fpent  feveral  days  in  York,  having  divers  meetings  ;  and 
all  was  peaceable  and  well.  I  went  alfo  to  the  caftle,  to 
vifit  the  prifoners ;  with  whom  I  fpent  fome  time,  encou- 
raging and  ftrengthening  them  in  their  teftimony. 

Then  leaving  York,  I  travelled  fouthward,  having  meet- 
ings amongft  friends,  till  I  came  to  Burton  in  Lincolnfliire; 
where  on  firft-day  I  had  a  large  and  precious  meeting. 
Then  turning  into  Nottinghamftiire,  I  travelled  through 
good  part  of  that  county,  in  which  I  had  feveral  very  good 
meetings,  and  then  palled  into  Derbylhire,  Leicefterfhire, 
and  Warwickfhire,  having  meetings  all  along  as  I  went,  till 
I  came  to  Warwick:  there  William  Dewfbury  came  to  me, 
and  feveral  other  friends ;  and  we  had  a  little  meeting  in 
that  town.  Then  paffing  through  Southam  and  Radway, 
at  each  of  which  places  I  had  a  very  good  meeting,  I  came 
to  Nathaniel  Bali's,  of  North- Newton,  in  Oxfordlhire,  and 
fo  to  Banbury  to  a  monthly  meeting  there.  After  I  had 
vifited  friends  at  their  meetings  in  the  bordering  parts  of 
Oxfordfhire,  Gloucefterftiire,  and  Northaniptonftiire,  I  paf- 
fed  to  Richard  Baker's,  of  Biddlefden,  in  Buckiughamftiirei 
and  the  next  day,  being  firft-day,  1  had  a  very  large  meet- 
ing in  Biddlefden,  at  an  old  abbey-houfe,  which  a  friend 
rented  and  dwelt  in.  Many  friends  and  people  came  to 
this  meeting  out  of  Oxfordfliire,  Northamptonftiire,  and  t].« 
parts  adjacent ;  and  of  good  fervice  it  was.  After  this,  I 
vifited  friends  in  thofe  parts,  having  meetings  at  Lilling- 


28o  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1680 

ftone,  Lovel,  and  Bugbrook.  Then  going  to^  Stony-ftrat- 
ford,  I  went  into  fome  parts  of  Bedfordfhire,  till  I  came  to 
Edward  Chefter's  of  Dunftable.  Whence  palTing  on  by 
Market-ftreet,  I  had  a  meeting  at  Albans ;  and  calling  on 
friends  at  Mims  and  Barnet,  I  came  to  the  widow  Haly's, 
at  Gutterftiedge,  in  Hendon,  Middlefex,  on  a  feventh-day 
night,  and  had  a  very  large  and  good  meetmg  there  the  day 
following. 

I  paffed  from  thence  to  London  the  third-day  following, 
and  went  direftly  to  the  Peel-meeting  at  John  Elfon's,  and 
next  morning  to  the  meeting  at  Gracechurch-ftreet,  which 
was  very  large  and  quiet ;  and  friends  rejoiced  in  the  Lord 
to  fee  me.  The  yearly  meeting  was  in  the  week  following, 
to  which  many  friends  came  out  of  moft  parts  of  the  nation, 
and  a  blefled  opportunity  the  Lord  gave  us  together ;  where- 
in the  ancient  love  was  fweetly  •  felt,  and  the  heavenly  life 
flowed  abundantly  over  all.  After  the  yearly  meeting,  I 
continued  about  a  month  or  five  weeks  in  and  about  Lon- 
don, labouring  in  the  work  of  the  Lord  both  in  and  out  of 
meetings  ;  for  befides  the  publick  teftimony,  which  the  Lord 
gave  me  to  bear  both  to  friends  and  to  the  world  in  meet- 
ings, I  had  much  fervice  lay  upon  me  with  refpecl  to  friends 
fufferings,  in  feeking  to  get  eafe  and  liberty  for  them  in 
this  and  other  nations.  Much  pains  and  time  I  fpent  while 
I  was  at  London,  in  writing  letters  to  friends  in  divers  parts 
of  England,  and  in  Scotland,  Holland,  Barbadoes,  and 
feveral  other  parts  of  America. 

After  this  I  was  moved  of  the  Lord  to  vifit  friends  in 
fome  parts  of  Surrey  and  Suffex.  I  went  to  Kingflon  by 
water,  and  tarried  certain  days  ;  for  while  I  was  there,  the 
Lord  laid  it  upon  me  to  write  both  to  the  great  Turk  and 
the  dey  of  Algiers  feverally,  to  warn  them  and  the  people 
under  them  to  turn  from  their  wickednefs,  and  fear  the 
Lord,  and  do  juftly,  left  the  judgments  of  God  (hould  come 
upon  them,  and  deftroy  them  without  remedy.  To  the 
Algermes  I  wrote  more  particularly,  concerning  the  cruelty 
they  exercifed  towards  friends  and  others,  whom  they  held 
captives  in  Algiers.  When  I  had  finifhed  that  fervice,  and 
vilited  friends  in  their  meetings  at  Kingfton,  I  went  further 
into  the  country,  and  had  meetings  amon  ^ft  friends  at  Wor- 
plefdon,  Guildford,  Efher,  Capell,  Patchgate,  Worming- 
hurft,  Bletchington,  Horfham,  Ifieid,  Ryegate,  Gatton,  &c. 
and  fo  came  back  to  Kinglton  again,  and  from  thence  to 
Hammerfmith.     And  having  fpent  feme  days  in  the  fervice 


i68oi  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  28t 

of  truth  amongft  friends  at  Hammerfmith,  Batterfea,  Wandf- 
worth,  and  thereabouts  I  croIFed  over,  by  Kenfmgton,  to 
Hendon,  where  I  had  a  very  good  meeting  on  firfl-day; 
and  went  from  thence  to  London. 

When  I  had  been  about  ten  days  in  London,  I  was 
drawn  again  to  vifit  friends  in  the  country;  and  went  to 
Edmonton  to  Chriflopher  Taylor's,  who  kept  a  fchool  for 
the  education  ot  friends  children.  I  had  fome  fervice 
amongfl  the  youth,  and  then  went  towards  Hertford,  vifit- 
ing  friends  in  the  way.  At  Hertford  I  met  with  John  Story, 
and  fome  others  of  his  party;  but  the  teftimony  of  truth  went 
over  them,  and  kept  them  down,  fo  that  the  meeting  was 
quiet.  It  was  on  a  firft-day,  and  the  next  day  being  the 
men's  and  women's  meeting  for  bufinefs,  I  vifited  them 
alfo ;  and  the  rather  becaufe  fome  in  that  place  had  let  in  a 
difefleem  of  them.  Whereupon  I  was  moved  to  open  the 
fervice  of  thofe  meetings,  and  the  ufefulnefs  and  benefit 
thereof  to  the  church  of  Chrift,  as  the  Lord  opened  the 
thing  in  me ;  and  it  was  of  good  fervice  to  friends.  I  had 
a  meeting  alfo  with  fome  of  thofe  that  were  gone  into  ftrife 
and  contention,  to  (hew  them  wherein  they  were  wrong; 
and  having  cleared  myfelf  of  them,  I  left  them  to  the  Lord, 
After  another  publick  meeting  in  the  town,  I  returned  to- 
wards London  by  Waltham-abbey,  where  I  had  a  publick 
meeting  the  firfh-day  following,  and  another  with  friends  in 
the  evening.  Next  day  I  went  to  Chrillopher  Taylor's  at 
Edmonton,  and  (laid  a  day  or  two,  having  fome  things 
upon  me  to  write  for  the  fervice  of  truth.  When  I  had 
finifhcd  that  fervice,  I  went  to  London  by  Shacklewell, 
where  was  a  fchool  kept  by  friends,  for  the  breeding  up 
young  maidens  that  were  friends  daughters. 

I  abode  at  London  moll  part  of  this  winter,  having  much 
fervice  for  the  Lord  there,  both  in  and  out  of  meetings  ;  for 
as  it  was  a  time  of  great  fuiFerings  among  friends,  I  was 
drawn  in  fpirit  to  vifit  friends  meetings  more  frequently,  to 
encourage  and  ftrengthen  them  by  exhortation  and  exam- 
ple. The  parliament  was  alfo  fitting,  and  friends  were  di- 
ligent to  wait  upon  them,  to  lay  their  grievances  before 
them.  W^e  received  frefli  accounts  almoft  every  day  of  the 
fad  fuffcrings  friends  underwent  in  many  parts  of  the  na- 
tion. In  fecking  relief  for  my  fuffering  brethren,  I  fpent 
much  time,  together  with  other  friends  who  were  freely 
given  up  to  that  fervice,  attending  at  the  parliament-houfe 
many  days  together,  and  watching  all  opportunities  to  fpeak 

Vol.  IL  x  n 


2Sz  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  C16S0 

with  fach  members  of  either  houl'e  as  would  hear  our  jufl 
complaints.  And  indeed  feme  of  the  members  of  each 
h  "lie  were  very  courteous,  and  appeared  willing  to  help  us 
if  chey'  couid;  but  the  parliament  being  then  earneft  in  exa- 
maiing  the  popifh  plot,  and  contriving  ways  to  difcover 
fuch  as  were  popilhly  aflPecled,  our  adverfaries  took  advan- 
tages againfl  us  (becaufe  they  knew  we  could  not  fwear 
nor  fight)  to  expofe  us  to  thofe  penalties  that  were  made 
againfl  Papills ;  though  they  knew  in  their  confciences 
we  were  no  Papills,  and  had  experience  that  we  were  no 
plotters.  To  clear  our  innocency  and  flop  the  mouths  of 
our  adverfaries,  I  drew  up  a  fhort  paper  to  be  delivered  to 
the  parliament ;  as  followeth  : 

*  TT  is  our  principle  and  teflimony  to  deny  and  renounce 
'  X  all  plots  and  plotters  againfl  the  king,  or  any  of  his 
'  fubjeds;  for  we  have  the  Spirit  of  Chrift,  by  which  we 
'  have  the  mind  of  Chri^*,,  v. ho  came  to  fave  men's  lives, 
'  and  not  to  deftroy  them.  We  defire  the  fafety  of  the  king 
'  and  all  his  fubjiifts.     Wherefore  we  do  declare,  that  we 

*  will  endeavour,  to  our  power,  to  fave  and  defend  him  and 

*  them,  by  difcovering  ail  plots  and  plotters,   which  fhall 

*  come  to  our  knowledge,  that  would  deftroy  the  king  or 
'  his  fubjefts.  This  we  do  fincerely  offer  unto  you.  But 
'  as  to  fwearing  and  fighting,  which  in  tendernefs  of  con- 
'  fcience  v/e  cannot  do,  ye  know  that  we  have  fuffered  thefe 

*  many  years  for  our  confcientlous   refufal   thereof.     And 

*  nov.f  that  the  Lord  hath  brought  you  together,  we  defire 
'  you  to  relieve  and  free  us  from  thofe  fufFerings,  and  that 
'  ye  will  not  put  upon  us  to  do  thofe  things  which  we  have 
'  iufp'ered  fo  much  and  fo  long  already  for  not  doing;  for  if 
'  yc  do,  ye  will  make  our  fufFerings  and  bonds  flronger  in- 
'  Head  of  relieving  us. 

'  G.  F/ 

About  this  time  I  received  two  very  envious  books  writ- 
ten againft  triuh  and  friends ;  one  of  them  by  a  do6lor  (fo 
called)  of  Bremen,  in  Germany,  the  other  by  a  prieft,  of 
Dantzick,  in  Poland.  They  were  both  full  of  grofs  talfc- 
hoods  and  reproachful  flandevs.  I  found  it  upon  me  to 
anfwer  them,  and  that  I  might  not  be  over-much  interrupt- 
ed by  other  bulinefs  and  company,  I  went  to  Kingllon 
upon  Thames,  where  I  wrote  an  anfwer  to  each  of  them^ 


i€8o]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  283 

and  alfo  to  fome  other  fcandalous  papers  which  had  been 
printed  and  fcattered  about  to  mifrepreient  friends. 

While  I  was  there  I  wrote  alfo  the  following  paper,  to 
perfuade  the  magiftrates  to  moderation  towards  dillenters, 
and  take  ofF  their  edge  to  perfecution.  Becaufe  it  fliould 
have  its  full  fervice,  1  direfted  it 

*  To  all  the  rulers,  magiftrates,  and  law-makers  in  En- 

*  g^and,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  from  the  higheft  to  the 

*  loweft,  and  to  all  other  m.agiftrates  every-where  in  that 

*  which  is  called  Chriftendom  ;   defiring  their  health, 

*  peace,  tranquillity,  life,  and  falvation  in  Chrifl:   jefas, 

*  the   Lord  of  Glory  and    Lamb   of  God,    who  takes 

*  away  the  fins  of  the  world,  and  is  the  Kmg  of  kings 

*  and  Lord  of  lords,  to  whom  all  power  in  heaven  and 
'  in  earth  is  given,   and  who  will  reward  every  man 

*  according  to  his  words  and  works. 

*  '\TO\J  that  bear  the  name  of  Chriftian  magiftrates,  my 

*  X    defire  is  that  you  may  all  be  found  in  Chrift,  and 

*  not  only  have  the  name,   but  be  made  partakers  of  his 

*  divine   nature ;    that  ye   may  be  not   only  fayers  of  the 

*  word,  but  doers  of  the  word,  not  only  profeftors  of  Chrift, 

*  and  talkers  of  Chrift,  but  let  Chrift  rule  in  your  hearts  by 
'  faith,  and  be  walkers  in  Chrift.    For  as  Chrift's  great  apol- 

*  tie  faith,  "  As  every  one  hath  received   the   Lord    jefus 
*'  Chrift,  fo  let  him  walk  in  him  ;  for  in  him  there  is  peace." 

*  If  all  that  profefs  Chrift  did  walk  in  Chrift,  they  would 

*  walk  in  peace,  and  be  in  unity ;  for  the  apoftle  exhorted 

*  the  Chriftians  in  his  day  to  keep  the  unity  of  the  Spuit. 

*  which  is  the  bond  of  peace,  yea  of  Chrift  the  King   of 

*  kings  peace.     All  Chriftians  who  have  the  fcriptures,  and 

*  are  not  in  this  Spirit  of  Chrift,   are  not  in  unity  one  with 
'  another,  and  fo  have  broken  this  bond  of  peace,  which 

*  fliould  knit  and  unite  them  together.      Likewife  all  that 

*  profefs  the  truth  of  Chrift  fhould  live  in  it ;   for  it  is  peace- 

*  able,  and  the  gofpel  is  the  gofpel  of  peace ;  which  if  all 

*  Chriftians  lived  in,  they  would  be  at  peace  one  with  an- 

*  other,  and  in  the  glorious  fellowQiip  of  the  gofpel.     And 

*  if  all  Chriftians  kept  in  the  fear  of  God,  which  is  the  be- 

*  ginning  of  the  pure,  heavenly,  peaceable,  and  gentle  wif- 

*  dom,  which  is  eafy  to  be  intreated  (above  that  wifdom 
'  which  is  earthly,  fenfual,  devilifli,  and  deftroymg)  there 

N  N  2 


a84  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  Ci6S» 

*  would  be  no  difference  and  deftroying  about  matters  of 

*  religion. 

'  i  do  declare  the  mighty  day  of  the   Lord  is  come  and 

*  coming,  and  the  Lord  God  is  come  to  teach   his  people 

*  himfelf  by  his  Son  (Hebrews  i.)  who  bruifes  the  ferpent's 

*  head,  that  falfe  teacher,  that  led  Adam  and  Eve  from  God 

*  their  Teacher.      God  will  teach  his  people  by  his  Son, 

*  the  Teacher  of  Adam  and   Eve  in   paradife,  before  they 

*  fell,  difobeyed  the    Lord   and  forfook  him,  and  followed 

*  the  ferpent;  whofe  head  Chrift  bruiftth,  and  renews  man 
'  and  woman  up  again  into  the  image  of  God  which  Adam 
'  and  Eve  were  m  before  they  fell :  glory  and  honour  be  to 

*  God  through  [efus  Chrift,  who  hath  called  us  by  his  Son 

*  into  his  glorious  image,  to  ferve  and  worfhip  him  in  his 

*  Spirit  and  truth  ;  which  holy  Spirit  and  truth  the  devil  is 
'  out  of.  and  cannot  come  into. 

'  I  defire  all  Chriftian  magiftrates  to  take  heed  of  pcrfe- 

*  cuting  any,  though  they  differ  from  you  in  matters  of  faith, 
'  worfhip,  and  religion.  For  Chrift  i'aith,  "  Let  the  tares 
*'  and  the  wheat  grow  together  till   the  harveft;"  and  he 

*  forbad  fuch  as  would  be  plucking  up  tares  :  the  reafon 
'  was,   "  Left  they   fhould   pluck   Lip  the  wheat  alfo  ;"  for 

*  Chrift  faid,  it  fhould  be  his  angels  work  to  feparate  the 
'  tares  from  the  wheat.      Moreover  Chrift  faid,  they  ftiould 

*  go  into  everlafting  punifliment  that  did  not  vifit  him  in 

*  prifon  in  his  members  ;  then   v.'hat    will   become  of  them 

*  that  caft  him  into  prifon,  where  he  is  made  manifeft  m  his 
'members!      Oh!   lay   thefe   things   to   heart!      A  day  of 

*  judgment  will  come,  vengeance  and  recompenfe  upon  eve- 
'  ry  one  according  to  their  works. 

'  To  thofe  difciples,  who  would  have  had  fire  to  come 

*  down  from  heaven  to  con  fume  them  that  would  not  re- 

*  ceive  him,  he  turned  about,  rebuked,  and  told  them, 
"  They  did  not  know  what  fpirit  they  were  of;  for  he  came 
"  not  to  dcftroy  men's  lives,  but  to  fave  them." 

'  Therefore  let  all  magiftrates  and  priefts,  in  that  which 

*  is  called  Chriftendom,  conlider  who  have  deftroyed  men's 

*  and  women's  lives  fince  the  apoftles  days,  becaufe  they 
'  could  not  receive  the  religions,  ways,  and  v/orfhips,  whicli 

*  they  have  made  and  fet  up ;  have  they  known  vv^hat  fpirit 

*  they  have  been  of?    Are  they  not  all  reproved  by,  and 

*  come  under  the  judgment  of  Chrift  ?  Therefore  let  all 
'  perfecution  be  laid  afide  concerning  religion  ;  let  love  bear 
'  the  fway,  to  overcome  evil  and  enemies  j  let  patience  over. 


i6So;j  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  285 

*  fway  paflion  in  all,  that  all  may  retain  the  heavenly  reafon 

*  and  the  pure  underftanding,  that  your  moderation  in  true 
'  Chriftianity  may  be  known  to  all  men.  For  have  you 
'  not  the  Turks,  Jews,  Tartars,  Indians,  and  Atheifts  eyes 

*  upon  you  ?    Therefore  be  in  unity,  and  let  not  the  name 

*  of  God  and  Chrift  be  blafphemed  amongft  them  by  means 
'  of  any  that  bear  the  name  of  Chriflians.     So  God  may  be 

*  glorified  by  all  and  in  all  through  Jefus  Chrift,  who  is 
'  over  all,  who  calls  all  to  peace,  and  is  blelfed  for  ever. 

'  I  would  have  you  to  be  as  noble  as  the  Bereans,  and 

*  fearch  the  fcriptures  of  Chrift  and  the  apoftles.  Where 
'  did  he  or  they  give  any  command  to  imprifon,  banifh, 
'  perfecute,  or  put  to  death  any  that  would  not  receive  or 

*  conform  to  them,  or  that  were  contrary-minded  to  them  in 

*  religion,  or  differed  from  them  in  matters  of  worfhip  ? 

'  Again   I  deli  re  all  Chriftian  magiftrates  to  fearch  both 

*  fcriptures  and  chronicles,  and  fee  what  was  the  end  of  all 

*  perfecutors,  and  what  judgments  came  upon  them.    What 

*  fell  upon  Cain,  who  was  the  firft  perfecutor  for  matters  of 

*  faith  and  facrifice  ?   Did  not  he  become  a  vagabond  and  a 

*  fugitive  in  the  earth  ?     What  became  of  the  old  world 

*  that  grieved  God,  and  Noah,  a  preacher  of  righteoufnefs  ? 

*  What  became  of  Sodom  that  vexed  juft  Lot  ?   Wliat  be- 

*  came  of  Pharaoh  that  perfecuted  God's  people  in  Egypt  ? 
'  (though  the  more  he  perfecuted  them  the  more  they  grew) 

*  What  became  of  Ahab  and  Jezebel  that  perfecuted  the 

*  Lord's  prophets  ?   And  what  became  of  Haman  that  would 

*  have  deftroyed  the  Jews  ?   What  became  of  the  Jews  and 

*  Jerufalem  that  perfecuted  Chrift  and  the  apoftles  ?  What 
'  was  the  end  of  all  thefe  ?   Are  they  not  become  vagabonds 

*  in  the  earth,  and  driven  away  from  their  native  country  ? 
'  Therefore  1  befeech  you  in  the  love  and  fear  of  God,  be 

*  fo  noble  as  to  fearch  both  fcripture  and  hiftory,  and  let 
'  not  your  divine  underftanding  be  clouded.  What  will 
'  become  of  the  beaft  and  whore  fpoken  of  in  the  Revela- 
'  tions,  with  their  falfe  prophets,  that  have  drunk  the  blood 

*  of  the  faints,  martyrs,  and  prophets  of  Jefus  ?  Muft  they 
'  not  all  go  with  the  devil,  who  is  a  murderer,  deftroyer, 
'  and  adverfary  of  mankind,  into  the  lake  of  fire  that  burns 
'  With  brimftone  ?   Ye  may  be  fure  that  fpirit  that  ftirs  you 

*  up  to  perfecution,  let  it  be  in  whomfoeverit  will,  is  not  of 
'  Chrift,  and  of  his  lamb-like  nature,  wlio  takes  avv^ay  the 
'  fins  of  the  world,  not  the  lives  of  men. 

'  Paul  was  a  perfecutor.  a  hal^r  to  prifon,  bcfor?  he  was 


tS6  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1680 

*  converted  to  Chriftianity,  but  never  after.     And  therefore 

*  are  not  all  in  Saul's  nature,  let  them  be  of  what  name  or 

*  profeflion  foever.    that  are  perfecutors,   and   unconverted 

*  into  Paul's  life  of  Chriftianit)'  ?    He  faid  the  life  that  he 

*  lived  after  he  was  converted,  was  by  faith  in  the  Son  of 
'  God ;  and  that  he  Hved,  yet  not  he,  but  "  Chrifl  lived  in 
*'  him,"  who  came  to  fave  men's  lives,  and  not  to  dellroy 
'  them.  This  life  fliould  be  the  life  of  all  Chriftians  now, 
'  which    Paul   in   his   converted  ftate  lived   in.      And   the 

*  apoftle  faith,  "  The  law  is  good,  if  a  man  ufe  it  lawfully; 
"  knowing  this,  that  the  law  is  not  made  for  a  righteous 
*'  man,  but  for  the  lawlefs,  for  the  ungodly  and  fmners,  for 
"  unholy  and  prophane,  for  murderers  of  fathers  and  mo- 
"  thers,  for  manflayers,  for  whoremongers,  and  for  them  that 
*'  defile  themfelves  with  mankind,  for  men-flealers,  liars, 
*'  and  perjured  perfons,"  1  Tim.  i.     So  the  law  in  its  phice 

*  is  good  againft  fuch.  Again  the  apoftle  fays,  "  The  law 
"  was  added  becaufe  of  tranfgreffion,"  Gal.  iii.  19.  Here 
'  all    magiftrates   may   fee    what   the    law    in    its    place    is 

*  good  againft,  and  what  it  was  made  for  and  againft,  and 
'  what  evils,  the  apoftle  fays,  it  takes  hold  upon.      He  does 

*  not  fay,   the  law  fiiould  be  laid  upon  men  that  diff^ercd 

*  from  them  in  their  religion  and  judgment,  nor  upon  right- 

*  eous  men.  So  you  may  fee  in  what  condition  the  law  is 
'  good,  and  what  it  was  made  againft;  not  againft  righteous 
'  men,  againft  whom  they  have  nothing,  only  becaufe  they 

*  differ  from  them  in  matters  of  religion  ;  letting  manflayers, 
'  whoremongers,  perjured  perfons,  ungodly,  prophane  per- 

*  fons,  liars,  &c.  go  unpuniftied;  fo  do  not  ufe,  nor  execute 
'  the  law  lawfully,  as  the  apoftle  fays ;  "  The  law  is  good, 
"  if  a  man  ufe  it  lawfully."  Therefore  it  ought  to  be  ufed 
'  lawfully ;   which  law,  the  apoftle  fays,  is  for  the  punifti- 

*  ment  of  evil-doers,  and  a  praife  to  them  that  do  well,  as 

*  may  be  fecn,  Rom.  xiii.  So,  as  the  apoftle  faid,  "  We  do 
•'  not  break  the  law,  nor  make  it  void ;  but  we  eftablifli  the 
"  law,"  Rom.  iii.  31. 

'  This  is  from  him  who  defires  the  eternal  good  and 
'  falvation  of  you  all  in  Chrift  Jefus,  Amen. 

'  G.  F/ 
*  Kingfton  upon  Thames,  the 
'  fourth  of  the  firft  month, 
'  ;68o-J.' 


i<;8o]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  2^7 

After  I  had  finifhed  thefe  fervices,  I  returned  to  Lon- 
don, where  I  ftaid  about  a  month,  labouring  amongft  friends 
in  the  work  of  the  Lord,  both  in  publick  meetings  for  wor- 
flrip,  and  in  thofe  relating  to  the  outward  affairs  of  the 
church.  Then  feeling  my  fpirit  drawn  to  vifit  friends  about 
Enfield,  I  went  to  Waltham  Abbey,  where  I  had  a  very 
precious  meeting,  and  j?nother  at  Flamftead  Heath.  Having 
rpent  fome  time  amongfl  friends  thereabouts,  and  had  divers 
good  meetings  at  Edmonton,  Enfield,  Winchmore-hill,  and 
other  places,  I  came  back  to  London  a  little  before  the 
yearly  meetmg,  which  was  in  the  third  month  1681.  It 
was  a  very  precious  meeting,  in  which  the  glorious  preience 
and  power  of  the  Lord  was  eminently  felt  and  enjoyed. 

Some  time  after  it  came  upon  me  to  write  the  following 
epiflle  : 

'  To  the  quarterly  men's  and  women's  meetings  that  are 
'  gathered  in  the  name  and  power  of  Jefus : 


CHRIS 
hufbs 


ST,   the  fecond  Adam,  who  is  both  head  and 


'  Saviour.  Sanftifier,  and  Reconciler  of  his  fons  and  daugh- 
'  ters  to  God,  1  fay  his  prefence  (to  wit  Chrift's)  feel  among 

*  you,  to  exercife  his  prophetical  office,  in  opening  you  with 

*  his  light,  grace,  truth,  power,  and  fpirit ;    and  to  exercife 

*  his  office,  as  he  is  a  bifhop,  to  overfee  you  with  his  light, 

*  grace,  power,   and  fpirit,   that  ye  do   not  go  affray  from 

*  God.  As  Chrift  is  a  fhepherd,  feel,  fee,  and  hear  him  ex- 
'  ercifing  that  office,  who  has  laid  down  his  life  for  his  ffieep, 

*  is  feeding  them  in  his  living  paftures  of  life,   and  makes 

*  them  to  drink  of  his  living,  eternal  fprings.  Let  him  rule 
'  and  govern  in  your  hearts,  as  he  is  king,  that  his  heavenly 

*  and  fpiritual  government  all  may  live  under,  as  true  fub- 

*  jc6i;s  of  his  righteous,  peaceable  kingdom,  which  (lands  in 
'  righteoufnefs,  peace,  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghoft,  over  Sa- 

*  tan  and  his  power,  the  unclean,  unholy  ghoft,  and  all  im- 
'  righteoufnefs.      So  all  ye  fubjeds  to   Chrift's  kingdom  of 

*  peace,  if  ye  want  wifdom,  knowledge,  life,  or  falvation, 
'  Chrift  is  the  treafure ;  feel  him  the  treafure  among  you. 
'  And  every  one,  as  ye  have  received  Chrift,  walk  in  him  in 

*  whom  ye  have  peace;  who  bruifes  the  head  of  the  ferpent, 
'  the  author  of  all  ftrife,  diftraclion,  and  confuuon  :  yea,  yoii 

*  ha^'e  peace  with   God,  and  one  with  another,  though  the 

*  trouble  be  from  the  world  and  the  world's  fpirit.     There- 


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'  fore,  my  dear  friends,  brethren,  and  fillers,  love  one  ano- 
'  ther  with  the  love  that  is  of  God  fhed  in  your  hearts,  that 
'  ye  may  bear  the  marks  of  Chrifl's  difciples,  and  it  may 
'  appear  that  Chrift  is  in  you,  and  ye  in  him,  fo  that  God 
'  Almighty  may  be  glorified  among  you.  Whatever  ye  do, 
'  let  it  be  done  in  the  name  of  Jefus,  to  the  praife  of  God 
'  the  Father,  keeping  in  unity  in  the  Holy  Spirit  of  God, 

*  which   was  before  the  unholy  fpirit  was  :     which    Holy 

*  Spirit  is  your  bond  of  peace,  yea,  the  holy  King  of  Kings 
'  and   Lord  of  Lords  his  peace.     And  in  this  holy,  pure 

*  Spirit  is  your  eternal  unity  and  fellowfliip ;  in  which  Spi- 
'  rit  of  truth  ye  ferve  and  worfhip  the  God  of  truth,  who  is 

*  God  over  all,  bleffed  for  ever.  Amen.     So  the  Lord  guide 

*  you  all  with  his  Word  of  patience,  Word  of  life,  power, 
'  and  wifdom,  in  all  your  adions,  lives,  converfations,  and 
'  meetings  to  God's  glory.  My  love  to  you  all  in  the  Lord 
'  Jefus  Chrift,  by  whom  all  things  were  made,  who  is  over 
'  all,  the  Firft  and  the  Laft. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  gth  of  the 
'  4th  month,   1681.' 

About  this  time  I  had  occafion  to  go  to  feveral  of  the 
judges  chambers,  upon  a  fuit  about  tithes.  For  my  wife 
and  I,  with  feveral  other  friends,  were  fued  in  Cartmel  Wa- 
pentake Court  in  Lancafhire,  for  fmall  tithes,  and  we  had 
demurred  to  the  jurifdiftion  of  that  court.  Whereupon  the 
plaintiff  profecuted  us  in  the  exchequer  court  at  Weftmin- 
fler  ;  where  they  run  us  up  to  a  writ  of  rebellion,  for  not 
anfwering  the  bill  upon  oath,  and  got  an  order  of  court  to 
the  ferjeant  to  take  me  and  my  wife  into  cuftody.  This  was 
a  little  before  the  yearly  meeting,  at  which  time  it  was 
thought  they  would  have  taken  me  up ;  and  according  to 
outward  appearance  it  was  likely,  and  very  eafy  for  him  to 
have  done  it,  I  lodging  at  the  fame  places  where  I  ufed  to 
lodge,  and  being  very  publick  in  meetings.  But  the  Lord's 
power  was  over  them,  and  reftrained  them,  fo  that  they  did 
not  take  me.  Yet  underftanding  a  warrant  was  out  again  ft 
me,  as  foon  as  the  yearly  meeting  was  well  over,  I  took 
William  Mead  with  me,  and  went  to  feveral  of  the  judges 
chambers,  to  let  them  underftand  both  the  ftate  of  the  cafe, 
and  the  ground  and  reafon  of  our  refufing  to  pay  tithes. 
The  firft  we  went  to  was  judge  Gregory,  to  whom  I  ten- 
dered mine  and  my  wife's  anfwer  to  the  plaintiff's  bill :  in 


i68i]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  289 

which  was  fet  forth,  That  my  wife  had  lived  three-and-forty 
years  at  Swarthmore,  and  in  all  that  time  there  had  been 
no  tithe  paid  nor  demanded:  and  an  old  man,  who  had 
long  been  a  tithe-gatherer,  had  made  affidavit  that  he  never 
gathered  tithe  at  Swarthmore  Hall  in  judge  Fell's  time,  nor 
fince.  There  were  many  particulars  in  our  anfwer,  but  it 
would  not  be  accepted  without  an  oath.  I  told  the  judge, 
that  both  tithe  and  fwearing  among  Chriflians  came  from 
the  pope ;  and  it  was  matter  of  conscience  to  us  not  to  pay 
titlies,  nor  to  fwear;  for  Chrifl  bid  his  difciples,  who  had 
freely  received,  give  freely  ;  and  he  commanded  them,  '  Not 
'  to  fwear  at  all/  The  judge  faid,  There  was  tithe  paid  in 
England  before  popery  was.  I  aflced  him  by  what  law  or 
ftatute  they  were  paid  then  ?  but  he  was  filent.  Then  I 
told  him,  there  were  eight  poor  men  brought  up  to  London 
out  of  the  north  about  two  hundred  miles,  for  fmall  tithes  ; 
one  of  them  had  no  family,  but  himfelf  and  his  wife,  and 
kept  no  living  creature  but  a  cat.  I  afked  him  alfo,  Whe- 
ther they  could  take  a  man  and  his  wife,  and  imprifon  them 
both  for  fmall  tithes,  and  fo  deftroy  a  family  ?  If  they  could, 
I  defired  to  know  by  what  law  ?  He  did  not  anfwer  mc  ; 
but  only  faid,  That  was  an  hard  cafe.  When  I  found  there 
was  no  help  to  be  had  there,  we  left  him,  and  went  to  judge 
Montague's  chamber.  With  him  I  had  a  great  deal  of  dif- 
courfe  concerning  tithes.  \Vhereupon  he  lent  for  our  ad- 
verfary's  attorney ;  and  when  he  came,  I  offered  him  our 
anfwer.  He  faid.  If  v»'e  would  pay  the  charges  of  the  court, 
and  be  bound  to  fland  trial,  and  abide  the  judgment  of  the 
court,  we  fhould  not  have  the  oath  tendered  to  us.  I  told 
him,  they  had  brought  thofe  charges  upon  us,  by  requiring 
us  to  put  in  our  anfwer  upon  oath ;  which  they  knew  before 
we  could  not  do  for  confcience-fake  ;  and  as  we  could  not 
pay  any  tithe,  nor  fwear,  fo  neither  ihould  we  pay  any  of 
their  charges.  Upon  this  he  would  not  receive  our  anfwer. 
So  we  went  from  thence  to  judge  Atkyns's  chamber;  and 
he  being  bufy,  we  gave  our  anfwers  and  our  r^afons  againlt 
tithes  and  fwearing  to  his  clerk  ;  but  neither  could  we  find 
any  encouragement  from  him  to  expe61;  redrefs.  Where- 
fore leaving  him,  we  went  to  one  of  the  moft  noted  counfel- 
lors,  and  Ihewed  him  the  flate  of  our  cafe,  and  our  anfwers: 
he  was  very  civil  to  us,  and  f;iid,  '  This  way  of.  proceeding 
'  againil  us  was  fomewhat  like  an  inquihtion.'  A  few  days 
after,  thofe  eight  poor  friends,  that  were  brought  up  fo  taf 
out  of  the  ncith,  appeared  before  the  judges  >  and  the  Lord 
Vol.   II.  00 


290  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1681 

was  with  them,  and  his  power  was  over  the  court,  fo  that 
the  friends  were  not  committed  to  the  Fleet.  Our  caufe 
was  put  ofF  till  the  next  term  (called  Michaelmas  term)  and 
then  it  was  brought  before  the  four  judges  again.  William 
Mead  told  the  judges,  that  I  had  engaged  myfelf  never  to 
meddle  with  my  wife's  eftate.  The  judges  could  hardly 
believe  that  any  man  would  do  fo ;  whereupon  he  fhewed 
them  the  writing  under  my  hand  and  feal ;  at  which  they 
wondered.  Then  two  of  the  judges  and  fome  of  the  law- 
)'ers  flood  up  and  pleaded  for  me,  that  I  was  not  liable  to 
the  tithes ;  but  the  other  two  judges  and  divers  lawyers 
*  preifed  earneftly  to  have  me  fequeftered,  alleging  that  I 
'  was  a  pablick  man.  At  length  they  prevailed  with  otie  of 
the  other  two  judges  to  join  with  them,  and  then  granted 
a  fequeftration  againft  me  and  my  wife  together.  There- 
upon, by  advice  of  counfel,  we  moved  for  a  limitation, 
which  was  granted ;  and  that  much  defeated  our  adverfary's 
defign  in  luing  out  the  fequeftration ;  for  this  limited  the 
plaintiff  to  take  no  more  than  was  proved.  One  of  the 
judges,  baron  Weflon,  was  very  bitter,  and  broke  forth  in 
a  great  rage  againft  me  in  the  open  court :  but  in  a  little 
time  after  he  died. 

After  the  yearly  meeting  I  tarried  about  a  month  in 
London ;  then  went  into  Suffex  to  vifit  friends  there, 
amongft  whom  I  had  many  large  and  very  precious  meet- 
ings in  divers  parts  of  that  county.  Yet  I  fpent  not  much 
time  in  Suffex,  but  returned  prcrty  foon  to  London,  whi- 
ther I  felt  drawings  in  my  fpirit ;  and  had  very  good  fer\nce 
for  tiie  Lord  there,  both  in  publick  meetings  and  amongft 
friends.  When  I  had  tarried  lometime  in  London,  I  went 
to  Edmonton  ;  and  from  thence  into  Buckinghamftiire, 
where  I  vifited  friends  at  feveral  meetings  in  the  upper  fide 
of  that  county  ;  and  then  went  by  Henley  to  Reading, 
where  I  tarried  feveral  meetings.  1  went  no  farther  weft- 
ward  at  this  time  than  Ore,  where  I  had  a  very  large  meet- 
ing ;  after  which,  ftriking  through  the  edge  of  Oxfordftiire, 
I  had  a  large  and  very  precious  meeting  at  Warborough, 
in  which  the  glory  of  the  Lord  Ihined  over  all.  Many 
friends  came  to  this  raeetinw  out  of  Beikfliire,  Buckinj>ham.- 
Ihire,.  and  I-lampfliire.  From  thence  I  paffed  to  Ilmore  in 
the  Vale  of  Buckinghamfhire,  where  \vc  had  a  ^^^lorious  iTiCet- 
ing.  I'hc  day  following  I  returned  to  Mary  Penington's. 
From  wjicnce  I  vifited  the  men's  and  women's  monthly 
meetings  at    Ilangerhili,  and    iome   other  meetings   there- 


i680  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  291 

abouts;  then  paffed  to  Watford,  where  was  a  marriage  of 
two  friends,  at  which  I  was  prefent.  A  very  large  meeting 
we  had  on  that  occafion,  and  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all. 
I  went  from  Watford  to  Longford  in  Middlefex,  vifiting 
friends  at  Uxbridge  in  the  way.  At  Longford  we  had  a 
large  meeting,  it  being  on  firil-day,  and  the  prefence  of  the 
Lord  was  precioufly  felt  amongfl  us ;  blefled  be  his  name  !  I 
paffed  from  Longford  to  Kingfton,  vifiting  friends  as  I  went, 
at  Staines  and  Sunbury.  At  Kingfton  I  abode  with  friends 
two  meetings,  wherein  we  were  fweetiy  refrefhed  together  in 
the  Lord.  Faffing  from  thence  towards  London,  I  had  a 
very  precious  meeting  at  Wandfworth  :  then  crofling  over  to 
Hammerfmith,  1  had  a  good  meeting  there  ;  which  was  the 
larger  by  reafon  of  a  burial,  and  there  being  a  pretty  open- 
nefs  in  the  people  on  that  occafion,  I  had  a  fine  opportuni- 
ty to  open  the  way  of  truth  amongft  them. 

After  I  was  come  to  London,  I  was  moved  to  write  the 
following  paper,  concerning  that  fpirit  which  had  led'  fome 
who  profeffed  truth,  into  ftrife  and  divilion,  and  to  oppofe 
the  way  and  work  of  the  Lord: 

*  Friends, 

*  '\7'OU  that  keep  your  habitation  in  the  truth  that  is  over 

*  X  all,  do  fee  that  it  is  the  fame  fpirit  which  leads  the 
'  backfliders  and  apoftates  now  from  the  fpiritual  fellowfhip 
'  and  unity  of  the  church  of  Chrift,  that  led  Adam  and  Eve 
*-  from  God.     This  fpirit  was  the  lame  that  was  in  the  world, 

*  which  got  into  the  Jews  when  they   were  gone  from  the 

*  Spirit  of  God  ;  and  then  turned  again  ft  God  and  his  pro- 

*  phets,  and   againft    Chrift  and  his   apoftles.      That  fpirit 

*  led  them  to  be  as  bad  as  Pilate,  or  worfe.      The  enmity  or 

*  adverfary  was  got  v»^ithin  them  againft  the  truth,  and  thole 

*  that  walked  in  it,  and  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord ;  fo  that  they 
^  killed  and  deftroyed  the  juft.     This  was  the  fpirit  of  the 

*  devil,  the  deftroyer,  who  fought  not  only  to  deftroy  the 
'  truth,  but  the  order  of  it,  and  thofe  that   walked    in  it, 

*  when  true  Chriftianity  was  planted  among  the  poiTeffors  of 

*  the  light,  grace,  and  truth,  the  holy  gofpel  faith  and  Spi- 

*  rit,  who  enjoyed  Chrift  in  their  heart.     But   when   fome 

*  began  to  err  from  the  Spirit  and  faith,  to  hate  the  light, 

*  difobey  the  gofpel,  turn  the  grace  of  God  into  wantonnefs, 

*  walk  defpitefully  againft  the  Spirit  of  grace,  turn  irom  the 
'  truth,  crucify  to  themfelves  Chiift  afrelh,  and  put  him  to 

*  open  ftiame ;  thefc  were  they  that  let  in  the  fpirit  of  the 

002 


293 


GEORGE    FOX'3    JOURNAL.  [i68t 


'  world,  who  held  the  form  of  godlinefs,  but  denied  the 
«  power  thereof;  and  troubled  the  churches  in  the  apoftles 

*  days.     When  the  fpirit  of  Satan  had  got  into  fuch,  they 

*  were  more  troublefome  to  the  church  than  the  open  perfe- 

*  cutors  without.     Thefe  got  into  the  aflemblies  to  deceive 

*  the  hearts  of  the  firnple  ;  having  the  good  words  and  fair 

*  fpeeches,  the  (beep's  clothing.      Paul,  Peter,  John,  Jude, 

*  and  James  had  much  to  do  with  fuch,  to  keep  them  froiT^ 

*  troubling  the  church  of  Chrift;  for  they  are  out  of  the  light, 

*  power,  and  Spirit ;  therefore  the  apoftles  of  Chrift  exhortr 

*  ed  the  faints  to  keep  to  the  Word  of  life  within  ;  to  the 

*  Anointing  :  to  the  grace,  truth,  and  Holy  Spirit  in  their 

*  hearts.  This  foul  fpirit  will  profefs  all  the  fcriptures  in 
'  words ;  but  by  the  Spirit  of  God,  which  is  holy,  that  fpi- 

*  rit  is  tried,  and  its  fruits.     So  the  apoftates  went  from  the 

*  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  and  turned  againft  the  prophets 
'  and  martyrs  of  Jefus  ;  and  became  the  whore,  whofe  cup 
'  all  natiotis  drank  of.  The  dragon  with  his  tail  threw  down 
'  many  of  the  ftars,  and   would  have  devoured  the  woman 

*  with  his  flood;  but  the  woman,  the  true  church,   was  pre- 

*  ferved,  for  the  gates  of  hell  cannot  prevail  againft  her  ;  and 
'  then  the  dragon  made  war  with  her  Seed.     So  the  dragon, 

*  the  whore,  beaft,  and  falfe  prophets,  all  made  war  againft 
'  the  Lamb  and  the  faints,  but  the  Lamb  and  the  faints  will 
'  overcome  them,  and  have  the  victory.  And  now  the  ever- 
'  lafting  gofpel  is  preached  again  to  all  nations,  tongues,  and 
'  people;  and  many  are  gathered  into  the  gofpel,  the  power 
'  of  God,  turned  to  the  light,  which  is  the  life  in    Chrift, 

*  grafted  into  him,  and  are  come  to  walk  in  the  order  of  the 

*  new  covenant  of  light  and  life,  in  the  gofpel  of  peace  and 
'  falvation.  The  fame  fpirit  that  oppofed  the  apoftles  and 
'  the  churches  in  their  days,  oppofes  now;  yea,  it   is   the 

*  fame  that  oppofed  Chrift  and  difdained  him,  that  difdain- 
'  eth  God's  Icrvants  now.  The  fame  that  oppofed  the  pro- 
'  phets,  and  rebelled   againft    Mofes,    oppofes    and  rebels 

*  againft  God's  fervants  and  people  now.    It  is  the  farpe  dark, 

*  blind,  difobedient,  faithlefs,  wilful,  jealous  fpirit,  that  perfe-j 
'  cutes  fome  with  the  hands,  and  others  with  the  tongue.  It  is 
^  the  fame  fpirit  that  is  now  going  about  fometimeslike  a  roar- 
'  ing  lion,   fometimes  like  a  twifting  ferpent  to  tempt,  to  de- 

*  ceive,  and  to  devour,  in  thofe  that  have  fair  fpeeches  and 
'  good  words,  the  Ih.eep's  clothing,  in  a  form  of  godlinefs,  un- 
i  der  pretence  of  light  and  liberty,  but  deny  the  power  thereof, 

*  and  inwardly  are  ravcnin^j  wolves.     If  it  were  pofiibk  they 


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*  would  deceive  the  very  eleft.      But  the  ele6l  are  in  the  co, 

*  venant  of  light  and  life,  in  the  power  of  God   over  them, 

*  and  in  Chrift,   who  will  grind  them  to  pieces,  and  flay  all 

*  his  enemies  with  his  fpiritual  fword,  who  will  not  have  him 

*  to  rule  over  or  in  them.      In   Chnfl:  all   his   people  have 
'  reft  and  peace,   who  is  their  fanftuary  over  all  Itorms  and 

*  tempefts.      In  Chrift,  the  fanftuary,  no  deceiver  nor  de- 
'  ftroyer  can  come ;  for  he  is  a  place  of  fweet  reft  and  fafe- 

*  ty.     Hallelujah  !  praife  the  Lord  for  his  fanftuary,  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 

Sufferings  continuing  fevere  upon  friends  at  London,  I 
found  my  fervice  lay  moftly  there  :  wherefore  I  went  but  lit- 
tle out  of  town,  and  not  far ;  being  h'equent  at  the  moft 
publick  meetings,  to  encourage  friends,  both  by  word  and 
example,  to  ftand  faft  in  the  teftimony  to  which  God  had 
called  them.  At  other  times  I  went  from  houfe  to  houfe, 
vifiting  thofe  friends  that  had  their  goods  taken  away  for 
their  teftimony  to  truth.  And  becauie  the  wicked  inibrm- 
ers  were  grown  very  audacious,  by  reafon  they  had  much 
countenance  and  encouragement  from  lome  juftices,  who, 
trufting  wholly  to  their  information,  proceeded  againft 
friends  without  hearing  them  :  whereby  many  were  made  to 
fuffer,  not  only  contrary  to  right,  but  even  contrary  to  law  al- 
fo.  I  advifed  with  fome  friends  about  it ;  and  we  drew  up  a 
paper,  which  was  delivered  to  moft  of  the  magiftrates  in  and 
about  the  city,  as  followcth  : 

WHEREAS  informers  have  obtained  warrants  of  fome 
juftices  of  peace,  who  have  convi6led  many  of  us 
without  hearing  us,  or  once  fummoning  us  to  appear  be- 
fore them  ;  by  which  proceedings  many  have  had  their 
goods  feized  and  taken  away,  being  generally  fined  ten, 
pounds  apiece  for  an  unknown  fpeaker  :  and  fome  of  thofe 
perfons  fo  fined  have  not  been  at  the  meetings  they  were 
fined  for;  and  the  fpeaker  notwithftandmg  hath  himfelf 
been  fined  for  the  fame  meeting,  the  fame  day  the  others 
were  fined  for  the  unknown  fpeaker.  The  juftices  may 
fee  the  wickednefs  of  thefe  informers,  by  whofe  faife  oaths 
we  have  been  convicted  for  an  unknown  preacher,  when 
the  preacher  hath  been  both  known  and  fined.  Alfo  in 
their  fwearing  fuch  perfons  to  have  been  ?.t  fuch  a  meeting 
fuch  a  day,  when  indeed  thofe  fo  fworn  againft  have  not 


>94  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1682 

*  been  at  that  meeting.     By  which  proceedings  feveral  fa- 

*  milies  of  the  king's  peaceable  lubjefts  are  like  to  be  ruined, 

*  if  a  fpeedy  Hop  be  not  put  thereunto.     Therefore  we  hope 
*■  and  defire  that  you,  the  king's  juftices,  for  the  time  to  come, 

*  when  any  informers  ftiall  come  to  any  of  you  with  an  in- 

*  formation  agamft  any  of  us,  will  fummon  luch  as  are  ac- 

*  cufed  to  appear  before  you,  and  hear  us  and  our  accufers 

*  face  to  face ;  that   none  may  fulFer  for  what  they  are  not 

*  guilty  of.      For  Pilate  the  governor  heard   Chrift  and  his 
'  accufers  face  to  face  before  he  condemned  him,   John  xix. 

*  The  council   and  chief  priefls  heard  Stephen  and  his  ac- 

*  cufers,  with  the  witnefTes  that  were  brought   againft  him, 

*  face   to  face,  before  they  condemned  him.   Ads  vii.      The 
'  Roman  captain  heard  Paul  and  his  accufers  face  to  face, 

*  A6ls  xxiii.      Felix  the  governor  heard  Paul  and  Ananias 

*  the  high-prieft,  and  the  elders  that  accufed  Paul,  face  to 

*  face,   A6ls  xxiv.      And  when  the  high-priefts  and  chief  of 

*  the  Jews  accufed  Paul  to  Feflus,  he  heard  Paul   and    his 

*  accufers,  and  them  that  witneffed  againft  him,  face  to  face, 

*  A6ls  XXV.     Doth  the  law  of  God,  or  did  the  Roman  law, 

*  or  doth  the  law  of  the  land  judge  any  man  before  he  and 

*  his  accufers,  ^nd  they  that  witnefs  againft  him,  be  heard 

*  face  to  face  ?'  • 

This  fomewhat  moderated  the  juftices:  and  after  this  fe- 
veral friends,  who  had  been  illegally  profecut^d  and  fined, 
entered  their  appeals  ;  upon  trial  whereof  they  were  acquit- 
ted, and  the  informers  caft  :  which  was  a  great  difcourage- 
ment  to  the  informers,  and  fome  relief  to  friends. 

A  little  before  the  time  for  choofing  new  ftierifFs  for  the  ci- 
ty, thole  who  put  up  to  be  chofen  defiring  our  friends  to 
give  their  voices  for  them,  I  wrote  a  few  lines,  tending  to 
difcover  what  fpirit  they  were  of,  and  how  they  ftood  affe6l- 
ed  to  true  liberty  ;  it  was  by  way  of  inquiry,  thus  : 

DO  any  here  in  London,  who  ftand  to  be  chofen  ftie- 
rilFs,  own  that  Chrift,  who  was  crucified  without  the 
gates  of  Jerufalem,  to  be  the  light  of  the  world,  that  "  en- 
'•  lightens  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world,"  who  faith, 
'  Believe  in  the. light,  that  ye  may  become  children  of  the 
'  light  ?"  Ls  any  of  you  againft  perfecuting  people  for  their 
iciigion  and  worfhip  of  God  in  Spirit  and  truth,  as  Chrift 
commandeth  ?  For  Chrift  faid,  "  I  am  not  of  this  world 
'  jiQr  my  kingdom ;'  therefoie  he  doth  not  uphold  his  fpi- 


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'  ritual  woriliip  and  pure  religion  with  worldly  and  carnal 
'  weapons.  Chrift  faid,  "  Swear  nofc  at  all;''  and  his  apollle 
'  James  faith  the  fame  :  but  will  not  you  force  us  to  fwear, 

*  and  break  Chrifl's  and  his  apoflle's  commands,  in  putting 
'  oaths  to  us  ?  Chrift  faith  to  his  apoftles,  "  Freely  ye  have 
"  received,  freely  give  :"  Will  not  you  force  us  to  give  tithes 

*  and  maintenance  to  fuch  teachers  as  we  know  God  hath  not 
'  fent  ?   Shall   we  be   free  to.  ferve  and  worfhip  God,  and 

*  keep  his  and  his  Son's  commands,  if  we  give  our  voices 
'  freely  for  you  ?  for  we  are  unwilling  to  give  our  voices 

*  for  fuch  as  will  imprifon  and  perfecute  us,   and  fpoil  our 

*  goods.' 

But  whatever  the  candidates  were,  I  obferved  heat  and 
flrife  in  the  fpirits  of  the  people  that  were  to  choofe  ;  where- 
fore I  wrote  a  few  lines  to  be  fpread  amongft  them,  di- 
re6lcd, 

'  To  the  people  who  are  chooiing  fherifFs  in  London  • 

'  People, 
'     A    LL  keep  in  the  gentle  and  peaceable  vvifdom  of  God^ 
'  ±\.  which   is  above  that  which  is  earthly,   fenfual,  and 

*  devililh  ;  and   live  in  that  love  of  God  that  is  not  puffed 

*  up,  nor  is  unfeemly  ;  which  envieth  not,  but  beareth  and 
'  endureth  all  things.  In  this  love  ye  will  feek  the  good  and 
'  peace  of  all  men,  and  the  hurt  of  no  man.     Keep  out  of  all 

*  heats,  be  not  hot-headed  ;  but   be  cool    and  gentle,  that 

*  your  Chriftian  moderation  may  appear  to  all  men  ;  for  the 

*  Lord  is  at  hand,  who  beholds  ail  men's  words,  thoughts, 
'  and  actions,  and  will  reward  every  one  according  to  their 
'  work  :  what  every  man  foweth,  that  fliall  he  reap.' 

I  had  fome  inclination  to  go  into  the  country  to  a  meet- 
ing :  bat  hearing  there  would  be  a  buftle  at  our  meetings, 
and  feeling  great  difquietnefs  in  people's  fpirits  in  the  city 
about  choofing  flieriffs,  it  was  upon  me  to  go  to  the  meeting 
in  Gracechurch-ftreet  on  firft-day.  William  Penn  went 
with  me,  and  fpoke  in  the  meeting.  While  he  was  d<:cla- 
ring  the  truth,  a  conftable  came  in  with  his  great  ItafF,  and 
bid  him  give  over,  and  come  down  :  but  William  Penji 
held  on,  declaring  truth  in  the  poxver  of  God.  After  awhile 
the  -conftable  drew  back;  and  Vv'hen  William  Penn  had 
done,  I  flood  up,  and  declared  to  thv^  people  '  the  everlaft- 


496  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  C»682 

*  ing  gofpel  which  was  preached  in  the  apoftles  days,  and 

*  to  Abraham;  which  the  church  in  the  apoftles  days  did 
'  receive,  and  came  to  be  heirs  of.  This  gofpel,  I  declared, 
'  was  fent  from  heaven  by  the  Holy  Ghoft  in  the  apoftles 

*  days,  and  is  fo  now  ;  and  was  not  of  man,  neither  by 
'  man,    but  by  the  revelation  of  the   Holy    Ghoft.     And 

*  now  this  gofpel  is  preached  again  (as  John  faw,  and  faid 

*  it  (liould  be)  to  all  nations,  tongues,  and  people  ;  and  all 

*  people  now  are  to  hear  Chrift  the  Prophet,  in  this  his  gof- 
'  pel  of  the  new  covenant.  For  as  Mofes  faid.  "  Like  un- 
"  to  me  will  God  raife  up  a  prophet,  and  hnn  fhall  ye  hear' 
"  in  all  things  :"  fo,  faid  I,  this  prophet  Chrift  is  come,  and 
'  all  the  Jews  in  Spirit,  the  true  believing  Chriftians  in  the 

*  light,  who  have  the  law  of  God  written  in  their  hearts, 
'  and  put  into  their  minds,  are  to  hear  Chrift  in  his  gofpel, 

*  new  teftament,  and  new  covenant,  which  is  the  law  of  the 
'  Spirit  of  life    in    Chrift  Jefus,  who  bruifes  the   ferpents 

*  head  (which  is  the  head  of  enmity)  and  makes  free  from  the 
'  law  of  fm  and  death.  I  flicwed,  that  all  whom  Chrift 
'  quickens  and  makes  alive,  he  makes  to  fit  together  in  the 
'  heavenly  places  in  himfelf.  So  that  they  do  not  wander 
'  up  and  down,  like  the  fool's  eye  in  the  corners  of  the  earth; 
'  nor  are  their  eyes  abroad  in  the  world,  to  fit  down  in  the 
'  world's  invented  feats  of  religion;  but  they  fit  together  in 
'  him,  as  the  faints  did  in  the  apoftles  days.  So  Chrift  was 
'  and  is  their  trcafure  of  wifdom,  life,  knowledge,  and  fal- 
'  vation.'  As  I  was  thus  fpeaking,  two  conftabies  came  in 
with  their  great  ftaves,  and  bid  me,  '  give  over  fpeaking  and 
'  come  down.'  But  I,  feeling  the  power  of  the  Lord  with 
me,  fpoke  on  therein,  both  to  the  conftabies,  artd  to  the 
people.  To  the  conftp.bles  I  declared,  '  That  we  were  a 
'  pcac::able  people,  v:ho  meet  to  wait  upon  God,  and  wor- 
'  ftiip  him  in  Spirif  and  in  truth  ;  and  therefore  they  needed 
'  not  to  have   corae  with  their  ftaves  againft  us,  who  were 

*  met  in  a  peaceable  manner,  defiling  and  feeking  the  good 
'  and  falvation  of  all  people.'  Then  turning  my  fpeech  to 
the  people  again,  I  declared  what  further  was  upon  me  to 
them.  While  I  was  fpeaking,  the  conftabies  drew  towards 
the  door,  and  the  foldiers  ftood  with  their  muflcets  in  the 
yard.  When  I  had  done  fpeaking.  I  kneeled  down,  and 
prayed,  defiringthe  Lord  to  open  the  eyes  and  hearts  of  all 
peop'O,  high  and  low,  that  their  minds  might  be  turned  to 
God  by  his  Holy  Spirit :  that  he  might  be  glorified  in  all 
and  over   all.      After  prayer  the  meeting  role,  and  friends 


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pafled  away,  the  conllables  being  come  in  again  without  the 
foldiers ;  and  indeed  both  they  and  the  foldiers  carried  them- 
felves  civilly.  William  Penn  and  I  went  into  a  room  hard 
by.  as  we  ufed  to  do,  and  many  friends  went  with  us;  and 
left  the  conftables  fhould  think  we  would  fhun  them,  a  friend 
went  down  and  told  them,  if  they  would  have  any  thing 
with  us,  they  might  come  where  we  were,  if  they  pleafed. 
One  of  them  came  to  us  foon  after,  but  without  his  ftafF; 
which  he  chofe  to  do,  that  he  might  not  be  obferved  ;  for  he 
faid,  *  The  people  told  him.  he  bufied  himfelf  more  than 
*  he  needed.'  We  defired  to  fee  his  warrant ;  and  we  there- 
in found  the  informer  was  one  Hilton,  a  north  country 
man,  reputed  a  Papift.  The  conftable  was  afked,  Whe- 
ther he  would  arrell  us  by  his  warrant  on  that  day,  it  being 
firft-day,  which  in  their  law  was  called  the  Lord's  day  ? 
He  faid,  '  He  thought  he  could  not.'  He  told  us  alfo, 
'  He  had  charged  the  informer  to  come  along  with  him  to 
'  the  meeting,  but  he  had  run  away  from  him.*  We  fhewed 
the  conftable,  that  both  he  and  we  were  clear  ;  yet  to  free 
him  from  all  fear  of  danger,  we  were  free  to  go  to  the  alder- 
man that  granted  the  warrant.  A  friend  prefent  laid,  He- 
would  go  with  the  conitable  to  fpeak  with  the  alderman  ; 
which  they  did,  and  came  prefently  back  again,  the  alder- 
man being  gone  from  home.  We  feeing  the  conftable  in  a 
ftrait,  and  finding  him  a  tender  man,  bid  him  fet  an  hour 
to  come  to  us  again,  or  fend  for  us,  and  we  would  come  to 
him.  So  he  appointed  the  fifth  hOur  in  the  afternoon,  buc 
neither  came  nor  lent  for  us ;  and  a  friend  meeting  him  af- 
terwards in  the  evening,  the  conftable  told  him,  '  He 
'  thought  it  would  come  to  nothing,  and  therefore  did  not 
'  look  after  us.'  So  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all;  to  him 
be  the  glory  I 

The  fourth-day  following,  it  was  upon  me  to  go  to  Grace- 
church-ftreet  meeting  again:  for  I  had  heard  they  would 
come  to  break  up  the  meeting  that  day.  The  neighbours, 
it  feems,  were  informed  fo,  a  juftice  had  granted  a  warrant 
for  that  purpofe,  and  the  conftable  told  a  friend  that  Hilton 
the  informer  hud  been  with  him  about  it.  The  conftable 
would  have  had  the  informer  to  have  gone  with  him  to  the 
meeting,  bat  he  would  not  ;  and  would  have  the  conftable 
go  without  him  :  whether  that  put  the  conftable  by  I  know 
not;  but  he  did  not  come.  1  was  in  a  travail  of  fpirit  in 
the  power  of  God,  and  was  moved  in  it  to  go  to  the  meet- 
ing; and  the  Lord's   power  did  chain  all  down.     Though 

Vol.  JL  a>  p 


198.  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [168^ 

they  threatened  to  bring  the  red  coats,  none  of  them  came, 
nor  was  there  any  difturbance  ;  but  a  glorious,  powerful 
meeting  it  was,  and  very  peaceable:  glory,  honour,  and 
praifes  be  to  the  Lord  over  all  for  ever,  Amen  ! 

During  the  time  I  abode  at  London,  as  I  had  leifure  be- 
tween meetings,  and  from  other  publick  fervices,  I  wrote 
divers  books  and  papers  ;  fome  of  which  were  printed,  and 
others  fpread  about  in  manufcript.  Of  thefe,  one  was  di- 
reded,  *  To  the  bifhops  and  others,  that  ftirred  up  perfecu- 
'  tion  ;  to  fhew  them  from  the  holy  fcriptures,  that  they  did 
'  not  walk  therein  according  to  the  royal  law,  "  To  love 
"  their  neighbour  as  themfelves,  and  to  do  to  others  as 
'^  they  would  be  done  unto."  Another  was,  '  To  all  the 
'  feveral  forts  of  profelfed  Chriftians,  as  well  Proteftants  as 
'  Papifts,  v/hofe  religion  and  worQiip  flands  in  outward  ob- 

*  fervances  and  ceremonies ;  preffing  them,  from  thofe  words 

*  of  theapoftle  Paul  to  the  Galatians,  chap.  v.  ver.  2,  3,  4. 
"  Behold,  I  Paul  fay  unto  you,  that  if  ye  be  circumcifed, 
"  Chrift  fhall  profit  you  nothing.  For  I  teftify  again  to 
"  every  man  that  is  circumcifed,  that  he  is  a  debtor  to  the 
"  whole  law.  Chrifl  is  become  of  no  eflPeft  unto  you,  who- 
"  foeverof  you  are  juftified  by  the  law  :  ye  are  fallen  from 
"  grace/'  to  confider,  whether  they,  being  gone   back  into 

*  legal  obfervations  and  fhadowy  ceremonies  (in  upholding 
'  tithes,  offerings,  firft-fruits,  priefls   garments,  outward  al- 

*  tars,  temples,  lamps,  lights,  &c.  and  in  obferving  days, 
^  m.onths,  times,  years,  with  many  other  things  commanded 
^  by  the  law)  were  not  gone  into  the  fame  ftate  that  the  Ga- 
'  latians  were  running  into  ;  and  fo  were  fallen  from  grace, 

*  and  become  debtors  to  the  whole  law.'  Another  was, 
'  To  dire61;  and  turn  all  people  to  the  Spirit  of  God,  that 
'  they  might  thereby  receive  a  right  underflanding,  and  be 
'  able  to  diftmguifh  between  right  and  wrong,  truth  and  er- 
'  ror;  that  under  pretence  of  punilhing  evil-doers,  they 
'  might  not  themfelves  do  evil  in  perfecuting  the  righteous, 
'  Which  is  here  infcrted : 

THE  Spirit  of  God,  which  he  hath  poured  upon  all, 
givcth  an  underltanding  to  all  that  are  led  by  it ;  and 
'  to  thofe  who  do  not  quench  the  motions  of  it,  it  giveth 
"-  knowledge  and  underflanding  to  diftmguifh  good  from 
'  evil,  light  from  davknefs,  Chrift  from  Antichrift,  the  old 
'  teftament  or  covenant  from  the  new,  the  old  way  from  the 
'  new  and  living  way ;  the  (heep  and  lambs  from  the  goats 


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*  and  wolves ;  the   worlhip  of  God,  which   Chrift  fet  up 

*  above  fixteen  hundred  years  ago,  from  the  dragon's  and 

*  bead's  worfhip  ;  and  all  thofe  that  worfhip  the  works  of 

*  men's  hands,  and  the  will-worfhippers,  from  them  that 
'  worfhip  God  in  his  Spirit  and  in  his  truth,  in  which  God's 

*  people  worfhip  him ;  which  worfhip  is  over  all  falfe  wor- 

*  fhips  and  worfhippers.     Thofe  who  believe  in  the  light, 

*  which  is  the  life  in  Chrifl,  become  the  children  of  light, 

*  and  are  the  lambs  of  Jefus.    Thefe  Iambs  follow  the  Lamb 

*  of  God,  that  taketh  away  the  fins  of  the  world ;  they  will 

*  not  follow  the  hirelings,  nor  the  ftrangers,  to  be  led  into 

*  flrange  ways,  doftrines,  religions,  and  churches  :  for  the 

*  Iambs  of  Chrift  follow  Chrift  the  Lamb  of  God,  and  know 

*  his  heavenly  voice.  They  know  alfo,  that  thofe  who  are 
'  without  Chrift  are  dogs  and  wolves,  adulterers,  idolaters, 

*  liars,  and  unbelievers,  who  would  devour  the  lambs :  but 

*  thefe  are  in  the  hand  of  the  Lord,  which  is  his  power, 

*  that  is  over  all ;  fuch  do  good  in  his  power  unto  all ;  for 

*  they  have  the  mind  of  Chrift,  who  would  have  all  come 

*  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth,  and  be  faved.      Thofe  that 

*  do  good  to  all,  do  hurt  to  none :  for  that  Ipirit,  that  doth 
'  hurt  to  any,  is  not  of  God ;  but  that   Spirit,   which  doth 

*  good  to  all,  and  efpecially  to  the  houfehold  of  faith,  is  of 

*  God.  Chrift  came  not  to  deftroy  men's  lives,  but  to  lave 
'  them  :  it  is  the  devil  that  is  the  deftroy  er  of  men's  lives 
'  about  religion,  who  corrupts  men  and  women,  makes  them 
'  deaf  and  blind  to  the  things  of  God,  and  to  halt  out  of 
'  God's  way.    Thofe  that  obey  the  evil  one,  and  forfake  the 

*  Lord,  fuch  the  deftroyer  doth  deftroy  :  but  Chrift  de- 
'  ftroys  that  deftroyer,  and  in  Chrift  ail  have  life. 

'  G.  F.' 

I  wrote  alfo  concerning  meditation,  delight,  exevcife,  and 
ftudy  ;  fhewing  from  the  fcriptures  of  truth  what  true  Chrif- 
tians  ought  to  meditate  upon,  exercife  their  minds  and  take 
delight  in,  and  what  they  fhouid  ftudy  to  do.  For  in  thefe 
things  not  prophane  and  loofe  people  only,  but  even  great 
profelTors  of  religion,  are  very  much  miftaken  ;  taking  de- 
light in  earthly,  fading,  perifhing  things  ;  whereas  they 
ought  to  meditate  on  heavenly  things,  dehght  in  the  law  of 
God  after  the  inward  man,  and  exercife  themfelves  to  have 
always  a  '  confcience  void  of  offence  towards  God  and  to- 

*  ward?  men,'  as  the  apoftie  Paul  did. 

As  fufFerings  continued  very  fore  and  heavy  upon  friends. 


|00  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [i68a 

not  only  in  the  city,  but  in  moft  parts  of  the  nation,  I  drew 
up  a  paper  to  be  prefented  to  the  king  ;  letting  forth  our 
grievances,  and  defiring  redrefs  from  him  in  thole  particular- 
cafes  which  I  underftood  were  m  his  power.  But  not  hav- 
ing rehef  from  him,  it  came  upon  me  to  write  an  epiftle  to 
friends,  to  encourage  them  in  their  fufferings,  that  they 
might  bear  with  patience  the  many  exerciles  brought  upon 
them,  both  by  magiRrates  and  falfe  brethren  and  apoflates  • 
whole  wicked  books  and  filthy  flanders  grieved  the  upright, 
hearted.  This  epiftie  I  wrote  at  Daifton,  whither  I  went 
to  vifit  an  ancient  hiend  that  lay  fick. 

*  TJ^RIENDS  and   brethren  in  .Chrjll    jefus,   whom  the 

*  J?  Lord  hath  called  and  gathered  into  himfeif,  in  him 
«  abide ;  for  without  him  ye  can  do  nothing,  and  through 

<  him  ye  can  do  all  things.      He  is  your  fj,rength  and  lup- 

*  port  in  all  your  trials,   temptations,    impriionments,  and 

*  fufferings,  who  for  Chrift's  l^ike  are  accounted  as  fheep 
'  for  the  {laughter  :   in   all  thefe  things  we  are  more  than 

<  conquerors,  through  Chrilt  who  hath  loved  us.     There- 

*  fore,  friends,  though  ye  fuffer  by  the  outward  powers,  ye 
«  know  that  the  prophets,   Chrift,  and  the  apoftles,  fuffered 

<  by  the  unconverted.  And  though  ye  fuffer  by  falfe  bre- 
'  thren  and  apoflates  for  a  time,  and  by   their  filthy  books 

*  and  tongues,  whofe  tongues  indeed  are  become  no  flander, 

*  let  them  ipeak,  write,  or  print  what  they  will  :  for  the 
'  fober  people  even  of  the  world  hardly  regard  it.  It  is  well 
'  they  have  manifefied  themfelves  to  the  world,  that  their 

*  folly  nvdy  proceed  no  farther  ;  though  to  the  utmoft  of 
*.  their  power  they  have  ihewed  their  wicked  intent  to  flir  up 
'  the  magiflrates,  profcllors,  and  prophane  againft  us,  and 
'  to  fpeak  evil  of  the  way  of  truth.      God's  judgments   will 

*  overtake  them,  as  lure  as  they  have  come  upon  thofe  that 

*  are  gone  before  them.      Let  their  pretence  be  ever  fo  high, 

*  mark  their  end ;  for  they  will  fail  iske  untimely  figs,  and 

*  wither  like  the  grafs  on  the  top   of  the  houfe.     Though 

*  they  may  leem  to  flourifh,  and  make  a  boafl  and  a  noife 

*  for  a  time,  yet  the  Seed  is  on  the  head  of  fuch,  which  will 
'  grind  them  to  powder  ;  which  feed  bruifeth  the  ferpent's 

*  head.  Therefore  in  this  Seed,  Chnfl,  who  is  your  fanclu- 
'  ary,   refl,  peace,  and  quiet  habitation,  who  is  the  Firft  and 

*  the  Lail,  and  Over  all,  in  him  walk ;  for  the  Lord  taketh 
?  picafure  in  his  faithful  people,  that  fcrve  and  worfhip  him. 
'i  Therefore  let  the  faints  be  joyful  in  glory ;  and  the  God 


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*  of  Peace,  the  God  of  all  grace,   who  hath  called  us  into 

*  his  eternal  glory  by  jefus  Chnft,  after  that  ye  have  fuffer- 

*  ed  awhile,  make  you  perfe6l,  ftablifh,  ftrengthen,  and  fet- 
'  tie  you.      Caft  all  your  care  upon  the  Lord,  for  he  careth 

*  for  you.  And  dearly  beloved,  think  it  not  flrange  con- 
'  cerning  the  fiery  trial  which  is  to  try  you,  as  though  fome 
'  flrange  thing  had  happened  to  you  ;  for  it  is  better,  if  the 

*  will  of  God  be  fo,  that  ye  fuffer  for  welUdoing  than  for 
'  evil-doing ;  and  rejoice,  inafmuch  as  ye  are  made  par- 
'  takers  of  Chrid's  fufFerings.  Wherefore  let  them  that  fuf- 
'  fer  accordmg  to  the  will  of  God,  commit  the  keeping  of 
'  their  fouls  to  him  in  well-doing,  as  unto  a  faithful  Creator: 
'  for  unto  you  is  given,  in  the  behalf  of  Chriil,  not  only  to 

*  believe  in  him,   but  alfo  to  fuflper  lor  his  fake.      So  it  is 

*  given,  or  is  a  gift  from  Chriil  to  fulFer  for  his  name;  and 

*  therefore  rejoice,  inafmuch  as  ye  are  made  partakers   of 

*  C brill's  fufferings.      If  ye  be  reproached  or  evil-fpoken  of 

*  for  the  name  of  Chrift,  happy  are  ye ;  for  the  Spirit  of 
^  glory  and  of  God  refteth  upon  you  :   on  their  part  he  is 

*  evil-fpoken  of,  but  on  your  part  he  is  glorified.      There- 

*  fore  if  any  fufFer  as  Chriftians,  let  them  not  be  aQiamed, 
'  but  glorify  God  on  this  behalf.     Though  now  for  a  feafon 

*  ye  are  m  fufFerings,  trials,  and  temptations,  that  the  trial 
^  of  vour  faith,  being  much  more  precious  than  that  of  gold 

*  which  perilhes,  though  it  be  tried  with  fire,  may  be  found 

*  unto  praife,  honour,  and  glory,  who  are  kept  by  the  power 
'  of  God,  through  faith,  unto  falvation.  Therefore  mind 
'  your  keeper,   where-ever  ye  are,  or  what  fufferings  foever 

*  ye  be  in ;  and  rnind  the  example  of  the  apoftle,  how  he 
'  fuffered  trouble  as  an  evil-doer,  unto  bonds.  But  the 
'  Word  of  God  is  not  bound,  which  is  everlailing  and  en- 
'  dares  for  ever :  and  they  who  are  in  that  which  is  not 
'  everlailing.  and  doth  not  endure  for  ever,  cannot  bind  the 
'  Word.  The  apoflie  faid,  "  I  endure  all  things  for  the 
■'  eletl's  fake;  that  they  may  alfo  obtain  the  fiilvation  which 
■'  is  in  Chrifl  Jefus,  with  eternal  glory  (mark,  with  eternal 
"  glory.)  And  if  we  fuller  with  Chrift,  we  Ihall  reign  with 
*'  Chnft,  who  abide  faithful."  Therefore  llrive  not  about, 
'  words  to  no  profit;  but  fhun  prophane  and  vain  babblings, 

*  for  they  will  increafe  unto  more  ungodlinefs ;  that  ye  may 

*  be  velfels  of  honour,  fiinftified  and  meet  for  Chrift  your 
'  rnafter's  ufe,  and  prepared  unto  every  good  work'.  Fol- 
^  low  after  righteoufnefs,  godlinefs,  faith,  love,  patience,  and 
^  nieckncfs.     Fight  the  good  fight  of  futh  with  your  hea- 


30*  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [16S2 

*  venly  weapons ;  which  faith  is  viftory  (or  gives  viftory) 

*  by  which  ye  lay  hold  on  eternal  life,  and  have  accefs 
'  unto  God,  "  who  will  render  to  every  man  according  to 
"  his  deeds  :  to  them,  who  by  patient  continuing  in  well- 
*'  doing,  feek  for  glory,  and  honour,  and  immortality,  eter- 
*'  nal  life ;  but  unto  them  that  are  contentious,  and  do  not 
•'  obey  the  truth,  but  obey  unrighteoufnefs,  indignation  and 
"  wrath,  tribulation  and  anguifti  upon  every  foul  of  man 
*'  that  doth  evil;  but  glory,  honour,  and  peace  to  every 
*'  man  that  worketh  good."  Chrifh  faid  to  his  difciples, 
"  If  the  world  hate  you,  ye  know  that  it  hated  me  before  it 
*'  hated  you.  If  ye  were  of  the  world,  the  world  would 
*'  love  its  own  :  but  becaufe  ye  are  not  of  the  world,  but  I 
♦'  have  chofen  you  out  of  the  world,  therefore  the  world 
*'  hateth  you,"  And,  "  If  they  have  perfecuted  me,  they 
*'  will  alfo  perfecute  you."     And  John  in  his  general  epif- 

*  tie  to  the  church  faith,  "  Marvel  not,  my  brethren,  if  the 
"  world  hate  you.  We  know  that  we  have  paffed  from 
•'  death  to  life,  becaufe  we  love  the  brethren."  And  Chrift 
'  in  his  prayer  to  his  Father  liiith  of  his  followers,  "  As 
*'  thou  haft  fent  me  into  the  world,  even  fo  have  I  alfo  fent 
"  them  into  the  world ;  and  the  glory  which  thou  gaveft 
"  me  I  have  given  them,  that  they  may  be  one,  even  as  we 
*'  are  one."    Therefore  all  ye  that  know  God  and  Jefus  Chrift 

*  (whom  to  know  is  eternal  life)  and  are  partakers  of  his  glo- 

*  ry,  keep  the  teftimony  of  Jefus,  and  be   valiant   for  his 

*  truth  upon  earth,  that  yc  may  be  all  fettled  upon  Chrift, 

*  the  rock  and  foundation. 

'  G.  F,' 
'  Dalfton,  the  3d  of  the 
'  8th  month,   1682.' 

I  m.ade  but  little  ftay  at  Dalfton,  but  returned  to  London, 
where  I  continued  moft  part  of  the  winter ;  labouring  in  the 
fervice  of  truth  amongft  friends  :  fave  that  I  was  a  little 
while  at  Kingfton,  in  the  tenth  month  of  this  year,  where  1 
wrote  a  book,  fetting  forth  '  The  ftate  of  the  birth  temporal,. 

*  and  the  birth  fpiritual :  and  the  duty  and  ftate  of  a  child, 
'  youth,  young  men,  aged  men  and  fathers  in  the  truth,'  &c. 
ymt  I  ftaid  not  long  at  Kingfton  neither;  for  the  heat  of 
perfecution  ftill  continuing,  I  felt  my  fervice  to  be  moft  at 
London,  where  our  meetings  were  for  the  moft  part  dif- 
n!rbed  and  broken  up,  or  friends  were  forced  to  meet  with- 
tiut  doors,  bein^  kept  ou^  of  their  meeting-houles  by  the 


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officers.  Yet  fometimes,  beyond  expeQatlon,  we  got  a 
quiet  and  peaceable  meeting  in  the  houfes.  One  time  I 
was  minded  to  have  gone  a  mile  or  two  out  of  town,  to 
vilit  a  friend  that  was  not  well :  but  hearing  that  the  king 
bad  fent  to  the  mayor  to  put  the  laws  in  execution  againfl 
diffenters,  and  that  the  magiftrates  thereupon  intended  to 
nail  up  the  meeting-houfe  doors,  I  had  not  freedom  to  go 
out  of  town,  but  was  moved  to  go  to  the  meeting  at  Grace- 
church-ftreet ;  and,  notwithftanding  all  their  threats,  a  great 
meeting  it  was,  and  very  quiet ;  and  the  glory  of  the  Lord 
fhone  over  all. 

The  fame  week  I  went  to  the  meeting  at  the  Peel  in 
John's-ftreet,  and  the  feffions  were  holden  the  fame  day  at 
Hicks's-hall.  I  went  in  the  morning  ;  and  William  Mead 
being  to  appear  at  the  feffions  for  not  going  to  the  fteeple- 
houfe  worfhip,  came  once  or  twice  from  Hicks's-hall  to  me 
at  the  Peel ;  which  fome  ill-minded  people  obferving,  went 
and  informed  the  juftices  at  the  bench,  that  he  was  gone  to 
a  meeting  at  the  Peel.  Whereupon  they  fent  a  melfenger 
to  fee  if  there  was  a  meeting;  but  this  being  in  the  forenoon, 
there  was  no  meeting,  fo  the  melTenger  vvrent  back  and  told 
them.  Then  others  informed  the  juftices  that  there  would 
be  a  meeting  there  in  the  afternoon  :  whereupon  they  fent 
for  the  chief  conftable,  and  afked  him,  '  Why  he  fufFered  a 
'  meeting  to  be  at  the  Peel,  fo  nigh  him  ?'  He  told  them, 
'  He  did  not  know  of  any  meeting  there.'  They  afked  him, 
'  How  he  could  but  know  it,  and  live  fo  nigh  it  ?'   He  faid, 

*  He  was  never  there  in  bis  life,  and  did  not  know  there  was 
'  a  meeting  there.'  They  would  have  perfuaded  him  that  he 
muft  needs  know  of  it ;  but  he  ftanding  fteadfafl  in  the  de- 
nial of  it,  they  faid,   '  They  fhould  take  order   to  have  it 

*  looked  after  in  the  afternoon.'  But  a  multitude  of  bufi- 
nefs  coming  before  them  at  the  ieffions,  when  dinner-time 
came,  they  haftened  to  their  dinner,  without  giving  order ; 
and  when  they  came  to  the  bench  again  after  dmner,  the 
Lord  put  it  out  of  their  minds,  fo  the  meeting  was  quiet, 
beginning  and  ending  in  peace ;  and  a  blefl'ed  meeting  we 
had,  the  Lord's  prei'ence  being  precioufly  amongft  us. 
Many  friends  had  a  concern  upon  their  minds,  when  they 
faw  me  come  into  the  meeting,  left  I  fhould  have  been  ta- 
ken ;  but  I  was  freely  given  up  to  fuffer,  if  it  was  the 
Lord's  will,  before  I  went,  and  had  nothing  in  my  mind 
concerning  it  but  the  Lord's  glory.  I  do  believe  that  the 
Lord  put  it  out  of  their  minds,  that  they  fhould  not  fend  to 


304  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURl^AL.  fiSSi 

break  up  our  meeting  that  day.  Yet  the  firft-day  after, 
three  or  four  juflices  (as  I  heard)  came  to  the  Peel,  and  put 
friends  out  of  their  meeting-houfe,  and  kept  them  out :  and 
inquired  for  Wilham  Mead,  but  he  was  not  there. 

That  day  I  was  moved  to  go  to  Gracechufch-ftreet  meet- 
ing ;  and  it  was  expefted  that  the  officers  would  come  to  brt-ak 
up  the  meeting,  or  keep  friends  out;  and  many  hundreds  of 
people  came  to  fee  what  would  be  done  to  us.  But  the 
officers  came  not ;  fo  we  were  in  peace  and  quietnefs ;  and 
many  of  the  people  that  came  to  look  on,  ftaid  all  the  timej 
and  a  glorious,  precious  meeting  we  had,  for  the  Lord's 
prefence  was  plentifully  amongft  us,  and  his  power  came 
over  all ;  glory  to  his  name  for  ever,  who  is  oveT  all ! 

I  had  feen  the  mayor's  printed  fpcech  for  putting  the  laws 
in  execution  againft  diflenters:  and  it  was  much  in  my  mind 
that  we  ffiould  draw  up  a  paper  to  fend  to  the  mayor  and 
aldermen,  to  clear  ourfelves  from  being  fuch  as  thofe  laws 
were  made  againft;  and  to  fet  forth  our  peaceable  behaviour 
both  towards  the  king  and  the  government.  Accordingly 
a  paper  was  drawn  up,  figned,  and  delivered  to  the  mayor; 
and  copies  thereof  delivered  to  the  aldermen,  and  the  bifhop 
of  London,  who  generally  took  it  kindly,  and  were  civil  to 
the  friends  that  delivered  it. 

About  this  time  I  was  moved  to  write  the  few  lines  foU 
lowing  to  friends : 

'  Dear  friends, 
'  T^EEL  the  power  of  God  in  you  all,  and  over  all,  and 
'  A    by  it  let  your  hearts  be  united  to  one  another,  and  to 

*  the  Lord  God,  who  hath  gathered  you  by  himfelf  by  his 

*  power  and  Spirit,  to  be  a  people  to  fcrve  and  worffiip  him. 
'  So  you  may  all  ftrive  to  excel  one  another  in  virtue,  and 

*  in  rhat  love  that  beareth  all  things,  and  edifieth  the  body 
'  of  Chrift,  the  body  of  the  fecond  Adam.  For  the  body  of 
'  old  Adam  in  the  fall  is  full  of  malice,  envy  and  vice.  There- 
'  fore  you  that  are  called  out  of  old  Adam  in  the  fall,  and  have 
'  put  on  Chnll  the  fecond  Adam  that  never  fell,  walk  in  him, 
'  the  trealure  of  life,  wifdom,  and  knowledge,  in  whom  ye 
'  have  peace  with  God,  who  is  the  Firft  and  Lafl,  the  Begin- 
'  ning  and  the  Ending.     So  k;t  all  be  gathered  up  to  God, 

*  into  him  who  reconcilefh  all  things  in  one,  boLh  things  in 
'  heaven  and  things  on  earth;  who^s  the  faithful  and  true 
'  witnefs  in  male  and  female.  In  him  fit  down,  who  is 
'  above  the  fubtil  foxes  in  their  holes,  and  the  kwh  of  llm 


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*  air  in  their  nefts ;  I  lay,  fit  down  in  Chrifl,  who  hath  no 
'  place  among  them  to  lay  his  head ;  he  is  your  reft.  So 
'  in  him  is  my  love  to  you  all. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  20th  of  the 
'  11th  month,  1682.' 

Not  long  after,  I  received  an  account  by  letter,  from  fome 
friends  that  were  priloners  at  Denbigh  in  Wales,  that  many 
friends  there  were  under  great  ruSerings  for  the  teilimony 
of  a  good  confcience.  In  the  tender  fenfe  whereof  I  was 
moved  in  the  love  of  God  to  vifit  them  with  a  few  lines,  as 
a  word  of  confolation  to  them  in  their  fufFerings  ;  and  of 
exhortation,  to  ftand  fall  in  the  teftimony  committed  to 
them,  after  this  manner  : 

'  TAEAR  fuirering  lambs  for  the  name  and  command  of 
'  JL/  Jefus  !  be  valiant  for  his  truth,  and  faithful,  and  ye 
'  will  feel  the  prefence  of  Chrift  with  you.  Look  at  him 
'  who  fuiFert  d   for  you,    hath   bouglit  you,    and  will  feed 

*  you,  who  faith,  '  Be  of  good  comfort,  I  have  overcome 
'  the  world  :'  who  deftroys  the  devil  and  his  works,  and 
'  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head.  I  fay,  look  at  Chrift  your 
'  fanftuary,  in  whom  ye  have  reft  and  peace.  To  you  it  is 
'  given  not  only  to  believe,  but  to  fufFer  for  his  name's  fake. 

*  They   that  will   live  godly  in    Chrift  Jefus,    fliall   fufFer 

*  perfccution  by  the  ungodly  profeifors  of  Chrift  Jefus  who 
'  live  out  of  him.  Therefore  be  valiant  for  God's  truth 
•'  upon  the  earth,  and  look  above  that  fpirit  that  makes  you 
'  fuff"er,  up  to  Chrift,  who  was  before  it  was,  and  will  be 

*  when  it  is  gone.  Confider  all  the  prophets,  Chrift,  and 
'  the  apoftles,  who  fuff^ered  and  were  perfecuted  ;  but  they 
'  were  never  perfecuted  as  true  men,  but  as  deceivers,  and 
'  yet  true.  Chrift  is  the  fame  to-day  as  yefterday,  a  rock 
'  and  foundation  for  your  age  and  generation,  for  you  to 
'  build  upon.      I  have  written  concerning  you  (after  I  heard 

*  your    letter)  to   friends  in  Chefhire  to   vifit   you,  under- 

*  {landing  that  you   belong  to  their  quarterly  meeting  :   I 

*  defire    Ibme  friends  of  your  county   would  go,  and  ];^y 

*  your  fuiFering  condition  before  the  monthly  or  quarterly 

*  meeting  in  Chefhire.      I  have  written  likewife  to  Richard 

*  Davis,  that  feme  of  that   fide  may  go  and  vifit   you.  and 

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3o6  GEORGE    FOX's     JOURNAL.  [i6S2 

*  fee  how  your  condition  is.      My  love  is  to  you  in  the 
'  Lord,  who  is  your  alone  fupport. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  27th  of  the 
'  11th  month,   1682/ 

Becaufe  the  magiftrates  were  many  of  them  unwilling  to 
have  fines  laid  upon  meeting-houfes,  they  kept  friends  out 
in  many  places,  letting  officers  and  guards  of  foldiers  at  the 
doors  and  paflages  ;  yet  fometimes  friends  were  fined  for 
Ipeaking  or  praying,  though  it  were  abroad.  One  firft-day 
it  was  upon  me  to  go  to  Devonlhire-houfe  meeting  in  the 
afternoon ;  and  becaufe  I  had  heard  friends  were  kept  out 
there  that  morning  (as  they  were  that  day  at  moft  meetings 
about  the  city)  I  went  fomewhat  the  fooner,  and  got  into 
the  yard,  before  the  foldiers  came  to  guard  the  pafTages  : 
but  the  conftables  were  got  there  before  me,  and  flood  in 
the  door-way  with  their  ftaves.  I  afked  them  to  let  me  go 
in  :  they  faid,  '  They  could  not,  nor  durfl  not ;  for  they 
'  were  commanded  the  contrary,  and  were  forry  for  it/  I 
told  them,  I  would  not  prefs  upon  them ;  fo  I  Hood  by, 
and  they  were  very  civil.  I  flood  till  I  was  weary  ;  then 
one  gave  me  a  flool  to  fit  down  on  :  and  after  awhile  the 
power  of  the  Lord  began  to  fpring  up  among  friends,  and 
one  began  to  fpeak.  The  conftables  foon  forbad  him,  and 
laid,  he  fhould  not  fpeak ;  and  he  not  flopping,  they  began 
to  be  wroth.  But  I  gently  laid  my  hand  upon  one  of  the 
conftables,  and  wifhed  him  to  let  him  alone.  The  confta- 
ble  did  fo,  and  was  quiet ;  and  the  man  did  not  fpeak  long. 
After  he  had  done,  I  was  moved  to  ftand  up  and  fpeak : 
and  in  my  declaration  faid,  '  They  need  not  come  againfl 
'  us  with  fwords  and  ftaves  ;  for  we  were  a  peaceable 
'  people,  and  had  nothing  in  our  hearts  but  good-will  to 
'  thz  king  and  magiftrates,  and  to  all  people  upon  the 
'  earth.  We  did  not  "  meet  under  pretence  of  religion  to 
"  plot  and  contrive  againft  the  government,  or  to  raife  in- 
'•  iurreclions ;"  but  to  worfhip  God  in  Spirit  aiid  in  truth. 
'  We  had  Chrift  to  be  our  Biftiop,  Prieft,  and  Shepherd, 
'  to  teed  us  and  overfee  us,  and  he  ruled  in  our  hearts ;  fo 
'  we  could  all  fit  in  filence,  enjoying  our  teacher.  So  to 
'  Chrift,  their  Biihop  and  Shepherd,  I  recommended  them 
'  all.'  I  iat  dov/n,  and  after  awhile  was.  moved  to  pray, 
and  the  power  of  the  Lord  was  over  all ;  and  the  people. 
With  the  conftables  and  foldiers,  put  off  their  hats.     When 


i€83l  CEORGE     F  O  X's    JOURNAL.  307 

the  meeting  was  done,  and  friends  began  to  pafs  away,  the 
conftable  put  ofF  his  hat,  and  defired  the  Lord  to  blefs  us : 
for  the  power  of  the  Lord  was  over  hini  and  the  people. 

After  this  I  went  up  and  down,  vifiting  friends  at  their 
houfes,  who  had  their  goods  taken  from  them  for  worfhip- 
ping  God.  We  took  an  account  of  what  had  been  taken 
from  them  :  and  fome  friends  met  together  about  it,  and 
drew  up  the  cafe  of  the  fufFerin gs  of  our  friends  in  writing, 
and  gave  it  to  the  juftices  at  their  petty  feflions.  Where- 
upon they  made  an  order,  '  That  the  officers  fhould  not 
'  fell  the  goods  of  friends  which  they  had  in  their  hands, 
'  but  keep  them  till  the  next  fellions ;'  which  gave  fome  dif- 
couragement  to  the  informers,  and  put  a  little  flop  to  their 
proceedings. 

The  next  firft-day  it  was  upon  me  to  go  to  the  meeting 
at  the  Savoy ;  and  by  that  time  it  was  gathered,  the  beadle 
came  in ;  and  after  him  the  wild  people,  like  a  fea,  but  the 
Lord's  power  chained  them  all.  The  Spirit  of  the  Lord 
went  through  and  over  all,  and  they  were  quiet,  and  we 
had  a  glorious,  peaceable  meeting;  bleffed  be  the  Lord  for 
his  unfpeakable  goodnefs  !  This  was  in  the  twelilh  month 
1682. 

In  the  firft  month  1683  I  went  to  Kingflon  upon 
Thames.  As  I  went  to  the  meeting,  I  met  the  chief  con- 
ftable who  had  been  at  the  meeting-place,  and  had  fet 
Watchmen  to  keep  us  out;  yet  he  was  pretty  civil,  and  the 
watchmen  let  friends  have  a  couple  of  forms  out,  to  fit 
upon  in  the  highway  :  fo  friends  met  together  there,  and  a 
very  precious  meeting  we  had ;  for  the  revrefliing  prefence 
of  the  Lord  was  with  us,  in  which  we  parted  in  peace. 

Having  vifited  and  encouraged  friends  there,  I  returned 
to  London,  and  went  to  the  meeting  at  Bull  and  Mouth, 
where  the  conftables  with  their  watchmen  kept  a  guard,  to 
keep  friends  out  of  the  houfe.  So  we  met  in  the  flreet ; 
and  when  any  friend  fpoke,  the  officers  and  watchmen  made 
a  great  buftle  to  pull  him  down,  and  take  him  into  cuftody. 
After  fome  other  friends  had  fpoken,  it  was  upon  me  to 
fpeak.  I  faid,  '  Heaven  is  God's  throne,  and  earth  is  his 
*  footftool :  and  will  ye  not  let  us  ftand  upon  God's  foot- 
'  ftool  to  worfhip  and  ferve  the  living  God  ?'  «  While  I 
fpoke,  they  were  quiet :  and  after  I  had  cleared  myfclf,  we 
broke  up  our  meeting  in  peace.  This  was  on  the  fixth 
day  of  the  week. 

On  the  firft-day  following  I  was  moved  to  go  to  the 
Q  Q  2 


3o8  GEORGE     F  0  X's     JOURNAL.  [1683 

meeting  at  Gracechurch-ftreet,  When  I  came  there,  I 
found  a  guard  fet  at  the  entrance  in  Lombard-ftrect,  and 
another  at  the  gate  in  Gracechurch-ftreet,  to  keep  h'iends 
out  of  the  meeting-place;  fo  we  were  fain  to  meet  in  the 
flreet.  After  fome  time  I  got  a  chair,  ftood  up  in  it,  and 
fpoke  largtlv'  to  the  people,  '  Opening  the  principles  of 
*  truth  to  them,  and  declaring  many  weighty  trutiis  con- 
'  cerning  magiftracy,  and  the  Lord's  prayer.'  There  was, 
beiides  friends,  a  great  multitude  of  people,  and  all  was 
very  quiet;  for  the  Lord's  poxver  was  over  all,  and  in  his 
time  we  broke  up  our  meeting,  and  departed  in  peace. 

Next  day  I  went  to  Guildford  in  Surry ;  and  having  vi- 
fited  friends  there,  paffcd  to  Worminghurll  in  Suffex,  where 
I  had  a  very  bleiled  meeting  among  friends,  free  from  dif- 
turbance.  While  I  was  there,  James  Claypole  of  London 
(who  with  his  wife  was  there  alfo)  was  fuddenly  taken  very 
ill  with  fo  violent  a  fit  of  the  ftone,  that  he  could  neither 
Hand  nor  lie ;  but  through  the  extremity  of  pain  cried  out 
like  a  woman  in  travail.  When  I  heard  it,  I  was  much 
cxercifed  in  fpirit  for  him,  and  \vent  to  him.  After  I  had 
fpoken  a  few  words  to  him,  to  turn  his  mind  inward,  I  was 
moved  to  lay  my  hand  upon  him,  and  prayed  the  Lord  to 
rebuke  his  infirmity.  As  I  laid  my  hand  on  him,  the 
Lord's  power  went  through  him  ;  and  by  faith  in  that  power 
lie  had  fpeedy  -eafe,  fo  that  he  quickly  fell  into  a  fleep. 
WHien  he  awaked,  the  (lone  came  from  him  like  dirt;  and 
lie  was  fo  well,  that  the  next  day  he  rode  with  me  five-and- 
twenty  miles  in  a  coach,  though  he  ufed  formerly  (as  he 
laid)  to  lie  fometitncs  two  weeks,  fomctimes  a  month,  with 
one  of  thofe  fits  of  the  flonc.  But  the  Lord  was  intreated 
for  h.im,  and  by  his  power  foop  gave  him  eafe  at  this  time  : 
blelFed  and  praifcd  be  his  holy  name  therefore  ! 

After  I  had  had  fome  meetings  in  SuITex  and  Surry,  and 
vifitcd  friends  thereaway,  I  returned  to  London  by  Kingf- 
ton,  where  I  had  a  meeting  on  the  firft  day  of  the  fecond 
month,  being  firll-day.  We  were  kept  out  of  the  mceting- 
houle  by  a  conftable  and  watchmen,  fo  were  fain  to  meet 
in  the  highway.  But  it  being  the  monthly  meeting  day, 
and  many  people  being  there,  the  meeting  was  pretty  large, 
and  very  quiet;  and  the  Lord's  blcffed  prefence  was  amongfl 
us ;   bleILd  be  his  name  for  ever! 

Being  come  to  London,  I  went  to  the  meeting  at  Wlieel- 
er-flrect  hear  Spitalfields,  which  that  day  proved  very  large, 
and  a  glorious,  bleifed  meeting  it  was :  for  the  Lord's  power 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  309 

and  truth  was  over  all,  and  many  deep  and  weighty  things 
were  opened  to  the  people  to  their  great  fatisfaftion. 

I  tarried  in  and  near  London,  viliting  tneelings,  and  la- 
bouring in  the  lervice  of  the  goipel,  till  the  yearly  meeting 
came  on,  which  began  the  28th  of  the  third  month.  It  was 
a  time  of  great  fuflferings ;  and  much  concerned  1  was,  lell 
friends,  that  came  up  out  of  the  country  on  the  church's  fer- 
vice.  lliould  be  taken  and  impril'oned  at  London.  But  the 
Lord  was  with  us,  his  power  preferved  us  ;  and  gave  us  a 
fweet  and  blefled  opportunity  to  vi-ait  upon  him,  and  be 
refreflicd  together  in  him,  and  to  perform  thole  fervices  for 
his  truth  and  people,  for  which  we  met.  As  it  was  a 
time  of  great  perfecution,  and  we  underilood  that  in  mofl 
counties  friends  were  under  great  fuflFerings  either  by  impri- 
fonments  or  fpoiling  of  goods,  or  both,  a  concern  was  weigh- 
tily upon  me,  left  any  friends,  efpecialiy  traders  and  dealers 
in  the  world,  fhould  hazard  the  lofmg  of  oJner  men's  goods 
or  efhates  through  their  fufferings,  \Vherefore,  as  the  thing 
opened  in  me,  1  drew  an  epiftie  of  caution  to  friends  in  that 
cafe,  which  I  communicated  to  the  yearly  meeting;  and 
from  thence  it  was  fent  among  friends  throughout  the  na- 
tion ;  a  copy  of  which  here  followeth  : 

'  Dear  friends  and  brethren  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrif!;, 
'  A  A/'"^^  ^^  your  only  fanCiuary  in  this  da)^  of  ftorm  and 
'  VV  perfecution,  fpoiling  of  goods  and  impri[bnmcnts  ! 
'  Let  every  one's  eye  be  unto  him,  xvho  has  all  power  in 
'  heaven  and  earth  given  unto  him  ;  fo  that  none  can  touch 
'  an  hair  of  your  head,  nor  you,  nor  any  thing  ye  have,  ex- 
'  cept  it  be  permitted  or  fuffered  in  this  day  to  try  his  peo-. 
'  pie,  whether  their  minds  be  with  the  Lord  or  in  outward 
'  things.  Dear  friends,  take  care  that  all  your  offerings  be 
'  free,  and  of  your  own,  that  has  cofl  you  fomething  ;  fo 
'  that  ye  may  not  offer  of  that  which  is  another  man's,  or 
'  that  which  ye  are  intrufted  wnthal  (and  not  your  own)  or 
'  fatherlefs  or  widows  eflates  ;  but  all  fuch  things  fettle  and 
'  eflablifh  in  their  places.  You  may  remember  many  years 
'  ago,  in  a  time  of  great  perfecution,  divers  friends,  who 
'  were  traders,  fhop-keepcrs,  and  others,  had  the  concerns 
'  of  widows  and  fatherlefs,  and  other  people's  eflates  in 
'  their  hands.  And  when  a  great  fufrering,  perfecution, 
'  and  fpoiling  of  goods  came  upon  friends,  efpecial  care  was 
'  taken  that  all  might  offer  up  to  the  Lord  in  their  fufferings; 
"  what  was  really  their  ov.-n,  and  not  any  other  people's  ef- 


gio  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1685 

«  tates  or  goods  which  they  had  in  their  hands;  and  that  they 
'  might  not  offer  up  another  body's,  but  that  which  they 
«  had  bought  and  paid  for,  or  were  able  to  pay  for.      After- 

*  wards  feveral  letters  came  out  of  the  country  to  the  meet- 

*  ing  at  London,  horn  friends  that  had  goods  of  the  fhop- 
'  keepers  at  London  upon  credit,  which  they  had  not  paid 

*  for  ;  who  wrote  to  their  creditors,  intreatmg  them  to  take 
'  their  goods  again.  And  fome  friends  came  to  London 
'  themfelves,  and   treated  with  their  creditors,  letting  them 

*  underfland  "  they  lay  liable  to  have  all  they  had  taken 
"  from  them  ;"  and  told  them,  "  they  would  not  have  any 
"  man  to  fuffer  by  them;  neither  would  they  by  fuffering 
"  offer  up  any  thing  but  what  was  really  their  own,  or 
"  what  they  were  able  to  pay   for."     Upon  which  feveral 

*  took  their  goods  again.     This  wrought  a  very  good  favour 

*  in  the  hearts  of  many  people,  when  they  faw  fuch  a  right- 

*  eous,  jufl,    and  honefl  principle  in  friends,    that   would 

*  not  make  any  fuffer  for  their  teflimony  ;  but  what  they 
'  did  fuffer  for  the  teflimony  of  Jcfus  fhould  be  really  and 
'  truly  their  own,  not  other  people's.     In  this  they   owed 

*  nothing  to  any  but  love.  So  in  this  every  man  and  wo- 
«  man  Hands  in  the  free  oflFering,  a  free  people,  whether  it 

*  be  fpiritual  or  temporal   which  is  their  own  ;  and  in  that 

*  they  wrong  no  man,  neither  inwardly  nor  outwardly.   Or- 

*  nan  faid  unto  David,  "  I  give  thee  the  threfhing-floor, 
"  &c.  and  the  oxen  for  burnt-offerings  :  and  the  threfhing- 
"  inflruments  for  wood,  and  the  wheat  for  the  meat-offering, 
"  I  give  it  all."  But  king  David  faid  unto  Oman,  "  nay, 
•'  but  I  will  verily  buy  it  for  the  full  price ;  for  I  will  not 
•'  take  that  which  is  thine  for  the  Lord,  nor  offer  burnt- 
"  offerings  without   cofl,'    1    Chron.  xxi.    22,    &c.      So  it 

*  Ihould  be  his  own,  and  fo  fhould  it  be  every  man's  that 
'  offers.      You  may  fee  here,  that  David  would  not  accept 

*  of  another  man's  gift  for  an  offering  to  the  Lord  ;  he  would 

*  not  offer  up  that  which  cofl  him  nothing,  but  what  fhould 
'  be  really  his  own,    Plal.  cxii.  5.     "  A  good  man 

ill  guide  his  affairs  with  difcretion." 


wu 


'  Let  this  be  read  in  your  monthly  and  quarterly  men's 
'  and  women's  meetings. 

*  G.  f; 

London,  the  2d  of  the 
'  4th  month,  1683.' 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  311 

Some  time  after  the  yearly  meeting  I  went  to  Kingflon 
upon  Thames  to  vilit  friends ;  and  while  1  was  there,  it 
cams  upon  me  to  write  the  following  epiflle  to  friends  in 
general,  as  a  falutation  of  love,  and  to  llir  up  the  pure 
mind  in  them. 

*  Dear  friends  and  brethren, 
'  T/l  ^HO  are  turned  from  darknefs  to  light,  and  from  the 
'  V  V  power  of  Satan  to  God,  who  are  believers  in  the 
'  light,  which  is  the  life  in  Chrilt,  and  are  become  children 
'  of  the  light  and  of  the  day,  grafted  into  Chrift,  the  fe- 
'  cond  Adam,  the  Lord  from  heaven,  and  are  gathered  in 
'  the  name  of  Jefus,  in  whom  ye  have  falyation,  and  not  in 
'  any  other  name  under  the  whole  heaven.      For  Chrift  Je- 

*  fus  faith,  "  Where  two  or  three  are  gathered  together  in 
''  my  name,  there  am  I  in  the  midll  of  them,"  Matth. 
'  xviii.  20.  So  you  being  gathered  in  the  name  of  Jefus, 
'  he  is  in  the  midft  of  you,  a  Saviour,  a  Mediator,  a  Pro- 
'  phet,  a  Shepherd,  a  Bilhop,  a  Leader,  a  Counfellor,  the 
'  Captain  of  your  Salvation,  who  bruifes  the  Serpent's  head, 
'  and  deftroys  the  devil  and  his  works.  Therefore,  bre- 
'  thren  in  Chrift  Jefus,  exhort  one  another  daily,  while  it  is 
'■  called  to-day,  left  any  of  you  be  hardened  through  the 
'  deceitfulnefs  of  fm.  For  you  arc  aiiade  paitakers  of  Chrift, 
'  if  ye  hold  faft  the  beginning  of  your  confidence  fteadfaft 
'  to  the  end,   Hebr.  iii,  14.     Therefore  hear  Chrift's  voice; 

*  for  he  is  in  the  midft  of  you  a  teacher.  Take  heed  left 
'  there  be  in  any  of  you  an  evil  heart  of  unbelief,  in  depart- 
'  ing  from  the  living  God,  as  there  is  in  too  many  in  this 
'  day  of  provocation  and  temptation.     While  it  is  to-day 

*  hear  his  voice,  and  let  us  coniidcr  one  another,  to  provoke 
'  unto  love  and  to  good  works.  Let  us  hold  faft  the  pro- 
'  feffion  of  our  faith  without  wavering  (for  he  is  faithful  that 
'  hath  promifed,  and  hath  called  you)  not  forfaking  the 
'  afl'embling  of  ourfelves  together,  as  the  manner  of  fome  is  : 
'  mark,  "  as  the  manner  of  fome  is,"  that  did  and  do  for- 
'  fake  the  aflemblinir  of  themfelves  together:  but  exhorting 
'  one  another,  and  fo  much  the  more  as  you  fee  the  day  of 
'  light  appearing.  For  if  we  fm  wilfully  after  we  have  re- 
'  ceived  the  knowledge  of  the  truth,  there  remains  no  more 
'  lacrifice  for  lins,  but  a  certain  fearful  looking  forof  judg- 
'  ment  and  fiery  indignation,  which  ftiall  devour  the  adver- 
'  faries,  Hebr.  x.  Therefore  it  is  good  not  to  for-fake  the 
'  alfembling  of  ourfsjlvcs  together,   but  exhort  one  arxOthcr 


312  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1683 

daily  ;  for  Chrift  is  in  the  midfl;  of  his  people  a  teacher 
and  a  prophet,  wTio  faith,   "  Learn  of  me,   the  way,  the 
'  truth,  and  the  hfe."     We  being  many  are  one  body  in 
Chrift,  gathered  in  his  name,  and  every  one  members  one 
of  another.      Having  then  gifts,  differing  according  to  the 
grace  that  is  given  us,  whether  they   be  prophecy,  let  us 
prophefy   according  to  the   proportion  of  taith  ;  and  let 
thofe   that  minifter  wait  on  their  miniftry ;   thofe   that  be 
teachers  on  their  teaching ;  and  he  that  exhorteth  on  ex- 
hortation; he  that  gives,  let  him  do  it  with  fimplicity; 
and  he  that  ruleth,  v»rith  diligence;  and  he  that  flieweth 
mercy  is  to  do  it  with  cheerfulnefs.      Abhor  that  which  is 
evil,  cleave  to  that  which  is  good.      Be  kindly  aflFetlioned 
one  towards  another,  with  brotherly  love,  in  honour  pre- 
ferring one  another.      Rejoice  in  hope,  be  patient  in  tribu- 
lations,  "  be  not  overcome  with  evil,  but  overcome  evil 
■  with  good ;"  and,  if  it  be  pofhble,   as  much  as  lieth  in 
you,   "lite  peaceably   with  all   men|J'   Rom,  xii.      This 
is  and  was  the  prafctice  of  the  church  01  Chrift.     And  now 
the  God  of  hope  fill  you  with  all  joy  and  peace  in  believ- 
ing, that  ye  may  abound  in  hope  through  the  power  of 
the  Holy  Ghoft.      I  myfelf  alfo  am  perfuaded  of  you,  my 
brethren,   that  ye  alfo  are  full  of  goodnefs,   filled   with  all 
knowledge,  and  are  able   alfo  to  admonifli  one   another, 
Rom.  XV.  13,  14.     Here  the  church  of  Chrift,  in  which 
he  was  in  the  mid  ft,  a  teacher  and  the  head  of  the  church, 
were  and  are  able  through  him  to  admonifh  one  another. 
Let  the  peace  of  God  rule  in  your  hearts,  to  which  ye  are 
alfo  called  into  one  body,  to  wit,  of  Chrift.     Let  the  word, 
of  Chrift  dwell  in  you  richly  in  all  wifdom,   teaching  and 
admonifhing  one  another,  &c.     Col.  iii.  "  Whatfoever  ye 
'•  do,  in  word  or  deed,  do  all  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus 
'■  Chrift,   giving   thanks  to   God  and  the  Father  by  him  ;" 
and  above  all  things  put  on  charity,  which  is  the  bond  of 
perfedlnefs.     The  iipoftie  faith  to  Timothy,  "  Be  not  thou 
•  aftiamed  of  the  teftimony  of  our  Lord,  nor  of  me  his  pri- 
'  loner  ;  but  be  thou  partaker  of  the  affliftions  of  the  gof- 
'  pel,  according  to  the  power  of  God,   who  hath  faved  us, 
'  and  called  us  with  an  holy  calling ;   not  according  to  our 
'  works,  but  according  to  his  own  purpofe  and  grace,  which 
'■  was  given  us  in  Chrift  Jefus  before  the  world  began,"   2 
Tim.  i.  8,  9.      It  concerns   every  one  not  to  be  aihamed 
of  the   teftimony   of  our  Lord,  who  hath  called  them  by 
his  g;vce ;  and  not  to  be  afliamed  of  any  of  Chrift's  pri- 


15833  GEORGE     F  O  X's    JOURNAL.  31^ 

*  foners,  and  affllftcd  ones  for  Chrifl's  and  his  gofpel's  fake, 
'  who  aboHilies  death,  and  brings  h'fc  and  immortalily  to 
'  liuht  through  his  goTpel ;  you  that  believe  in  the  light, 
'  know  it.  Peter  faith  in  his  general  epiftle  to  the  church 
'  of  Chrift,  "  As  every  man,"  mark  every  man,  '■  haih  re- 
"  ceived  the  gift,  fo  miniftcr  the  fame  one  to  another,  as 
"  good  ftewards  of  the  manifold  grace  of  God.  If  any  man 
"  fpeak,  let  him  fpeak  as  the  oracles  of  God,"  fo  not  ot  men. 
"  If  any  man  miniifer  let  him  do  it  as  of  the  ability  which 
'•'  God  gives,"  fo  not  of  the  ability  of  men's  arts  and  fcien- 
'  ces,  "  that  God  in  all  things  may  be  glorified  through  Je- 
"  fus  Chrift,"  «&c.  For  thele  gifts  and  grace  come  from  Je- 
'  fus  into  the  hearts  of  the  members  of  his  church,  whom  he. 
'  is  in  the  mid(l  of.  And  if  any  man  fuffer  as  a  Chriftian, 
'  let  him  not  be  afhamed,  but  let  him  glorify  God,  &c. 
'  Every    true   Chriftian  hath  the  prefence  of  Chriil,    who 

*  hath  all  power  in  heaven  and  in  earth  given  him,  to  fup- 
"  port  them  with  his  power,  light,  and  life.  Chrift  faith 
"  to  his  believers,  ''  Beware  of  men,  for  they  will  deliver 
'•  you  up  to  the  councils,  and  they  will  Icourge  you  in  the 
"  fynagogues,  and  you  Ihali  be  brought  before  governors 
"  and  kmgs  for  ray  name's  firke,  for  a  teftimony  againlt 
"  them  and  the  Gentiles.  But  when  they  deliver  yOu  up, 
"  take  no  thought  how  or  what  ye  ftiall  ipeak ;  for  it  ftiail 
"  be  given  you  m  the  fame  hour  what  ye  fliall  I'peak  :  for  it 
"  is  not  you  that  fpeak,  but  the  Spirit  of  your  Father  that 
"  fpeaketh  in  you.  And  ye  fhali  be  hated  of  all  men  for 
"  my  name's  fake  ;  but  he  that  endureth  to  the  end  Ihall 
'•  be  faved.  •  The  difciple  is  not  above  his  mafter,  nor  the 
"  fervant  above  his  lord  ;  it  is  enough  for  the  difciple  that  he 
"  be  as  his  mafter,  and  the  fervant  as  his  lord  ;  for  if  they 
•'  have  called  the  mafter  of  the  houfe  Beelzebub,  what  will 
'•  they  do  to  his  fervant  ?  Fear  not  them  which  kill  the  bo- 
"  dy,  but  are  not  able  to  kill  the  foul,  Sec.  A  fparrow  fhali 
"  not  fall  to  the  ground  without  your  heavenly  Father,  &t. 
''  The  hairs  of  your  head  are  ail  numbered,  ye  are  of  more 
"  value  tiian  many  I'parrows.  Whofoever  therefore  fhali 
"  confefs  me  before  men,  Jiim  will  I  confefs  alfo  before  my 
"  Father  which  is  in  hea^/en  ;  but  whofoever  (hall  deny  me 
"  before  men,  him  wiil  I  alfo  deny  before  my  l^'ai-her  which 
''  is  in  heaven.  And  whoibever  ftiall  be  afnamed  ct  ine  and 
*'  of  my  words,  of  him  uiall  the  Son  of  Man  be  afham- 
"  ed,"  &c.  Matth.  x.  Again  Chrift  faith,  "  Whol'o.  ver 
'•  ftiall  be  afiiamed  of  me  and  of  my  words  in   this  adv.l'.e- 

\'OL.     II,  iX    A 


314  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1683 

"  rous  and  fmful  generation,  of  him  alfo  fhall  the  Son  of 
*'  Man  be  afhamed,  when  he  conies  in  the  glory  of  his  Father 
"  with  his  holy  angels,"  Mark  viii.  38.  And  Chrill  faith 
'  to  his  difciples,  "  He  that  receiveth  you  receiveth  me,  and 
*=  he  that  receiveth  me  receiveth  him  that  fent  me ;  he  that 
"  receiveth  a  prophet  in  the  name  of  a  prophet,  fhall  re- 
♦•  ceive  a  prophet's  reward ;  and  he  that  receiveth  a  righte- 
"  ous  man  hi  the  name  of  a  righteous  man,  fhail  receive  a 
"  riohteoas  man's  reward.  Whofoever  fhall  give  to  drink 
•'  unto  one  of  thefe  little  ones  a  cup  of  cold  water  only,  in 
"  the  name  of  a  difciple,  verily  I  fay  unto  you  he  fhall  in 
"  no  wife  lofe  his  reward,"  Matth.  x.  40,  41,  42.  Here  ye 
'  may  fee  how  Chrift  encourages  his  difciples,  and  them  that 
'  receive  them.  And  John  faith,  "  Among  the  chief  rulers 
'=  of  the  Jews  many  believed  in  Chrift;  but  becaufe  of  the 
"  Pharifees  they  did  not  confefs  him,  left  they  ftiould  be 
"  put  out  of  the  fynagogue,"  John  xii.  42.  Too  many 
'  fuch  believers  are  now-a-days,  who  dare  not  confefs  Chrift, 
'  left  they  ftiould  lofe  the  favour  of  men.  But  Chrift  en- 
'  courages  the  faithful  difciples,  and  told  them,  they  would 
'  put  them  out  of  their  fynagogues ;  yea,  that  the  time 
'  Ihould  come,    that  whofoever  killed   them   would   think 

*  they  did  God  fervice.  "  Thefe  things,"  faid  he,  "  will 
"  they  do  unto  you,  becaufe  they  have  not  known  the  Fa- 
"  ther,  nor  me.  But  thefe  things  have  I  told  you,  that 
"  when  the  time  fliall  come  ye  may  remember  that  I  told 
"  you  of  thtim,"  John  xvi,  2.  3,  4  Here  ye  may  fee  what 
'  Chrift  told  his  Difciples  ftiould  come  to  pafs  to  them. 
'  And  Saul,  before  he  was  converted,  did  compel  the  Chrif- 
'  tians  to  blafpheme,  and  make  havock  of  the  Church  of 
'  Chrift,  Acls  viii.  and  chap.  22  and  26.  Did  not  the  beaft 
'  in  the  Revelations  compel  both  fmall  and  great  to  worfiiip 
'  him  and  his  image  ?  And  did  not  all  worftiip  it,  but 
'  thofe  who  had  their  names  written  in  the  Lamb's  book  of 
'  life  ?  Did  not  Nebucliadnezzar  fet  up  an  image  of  fixty 
'  cubits  high,  and  dx  cubits  broad  ?  And  did  not  he  caufe 
'  a  herald  to  cry  aloud,  "  It  is  commanded  that  ail  people, 
"  and  nations,  and  languages  fall  down  and  worftiip  the 
"golden  image  that  Nebucbadnezzru-  hath  fet  up;  and 
"  whoi'o  falleth  not  down  and  worftiippeth  fhall  the  fame 
"  hour  be  caft  into  the  rnidft  of  the  fiery  furnace  ?"     And 

*  were  not  Siiadrach,  Meftiach,  and  Abednego  caft  into  the 

*  furnace  ?  Dun.  iii.  But  God  delivered  them.  Therefore 
'  it  is  good  to  be  faithful  to  God  and  his  worlhip  in  fpiiit 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  515 

*  and  truth.     The   Jews   agreed,   that  if  any  man  fhould 

*  confefs   Chrift  he  fhould  be  put  out  of  their  fynagogue, 

*  John  ix.  22.      So  it  was  for  Chrifl's  fake  they  were  ex- 

*  communicated  out  of  their  fynagogues.  But,  as  it  is  writ- 
'  ten,  "  Behold  I  lay  in  Sion  a  llumbling-ftone,  and  a  rock 
"  of  offence ;  and  whofo  believes  on  him  fiiall  not  be  afha- 
"  med."     So  Chrift  is  a  ftumbling-ftone  and  a  rock  of  of- 

*  fence  to  all  the  unbelievers  in  the  light,  which  is  the  life 
'  in  Chrift,  whether  they  be  jews,  Chnftians,  or  Gentiles. 
'  The  Jews  did  believe  Chrift  was  to  come,  from  the  fcrip- 

*  tures,  and  the  Chriftians  beiiev^e  he  is  come,  by  the  I'crip- 
'  tures,   but  do  not  believe  in  the  light  as  Chrift  commands, 

*  and  fo  do  not  become  children  of  the  light.  Therefore 
'  ye  that  are  believers  in  the  light,  and  are  become  the  chil- 
'  dren  of  light,  walk  in  Chrift,  your  way,  lite,  and  falvation. 

'  G.   F.' 
*  Kingfton,  the  fifth  month, 
'  1683.' 

Before  I  left  Kingfton  fomething  further  opened  in  me, 
which  I  was  moved  to  write  and  fend  amongft  friends  ;  as 
followeth. 

'  Dear  friends, 

*  "jV  yf  Y  love  is  to  you  all  in  the  holy  feed  that  reigns  over 

*  i-VX  all.      And  my  defire  is  that  every  one,  both  male 

*  and  female,  may  feel  the  feed  Chrift  in  you,  which  is  heir 

*  of  the  promife  of  life  eternal,  that  ye  may  all  grow  up  in 
'  Chrift  Jefus,  your  head,  and  be  built  upon  him  the  rock 
'  and  foundation  that  God  hath  laid,  which  ftands  fure  over 
'  all  rocks  and  foundations  in  the  ^vorld.  That  ye  may  eat 
'  and  drink  of  this  fpiritual  rock,  the  fpiritual  water  and 
'  food ;  fo  that  ye  may  truly  and   inwardly   fay,   your  rock 

*  and  foundation,  your  bread  and  water  ot  life  is  from  hea- 
'  ven,  and  your  bread  and  water  is  fure ;  alfo  that  ye  know 
'  his  voice  that  feeds,  and  leads  you  into  the  paftures  of  life, 
'  which  are  always  frefti  and  green.  In  this  your  affeclions 
*•  are  fet  on  things  above,  feeking  that  which  comes  down 
'  from  above  more  than  that  which  is  from  below,  where 
'  Chrift  fits  at  the  right  hand  of  God,  making  interceffion 
'  for  you ;  who  is  your  mediator,  making  peace  betwixt 
'  God  and  you  ;  and  your  heavenly  bifhop  to  overfee  you, 

*  that  ye  keep  in  his  light,  life,  and  power,   and  do  not  go 

*  aftray  from  his  heavenly  fold  and  pafture,  that  he  your 

R   R   2 


3i6  GEORGE     F  O  X's    JOURNAL.  [1683 

*  Ihepherd  may  feed  you  therein.  He  is  your  prophet,  to 
'  open  to  you  the  ftdhiimg  of  the  prornifes  and  prophecies, 

*  hirnfeh"  hting  the  fuhftance ;  that  ye  may  live  in  hun,  and 

*  he  in  you,  yea,  and  reign  m  your  hearts ;  there  to  exercife 

*  l]is  offices,  his  prophetical,  prieflly,  and  kingly  office, 
'  who  is  hcaveniy  and  Ipn-ituaL  That  ye  may  know  the 
'  three  that  bear  vvilnefs  in  the  earth,  the  Spirit,  the  Water, 
'  and  the  Blood,  which  is  the  Lite  of  Chrill,  which  cleanl- 
'  elh  from  all  fin  ;  the  Water  that  walhes  and  refreffies  you, 
'  the  Spnk  that  baptizes,  circumcifcs,   and  leads  you  into 

*  all  truth;  that  ye  rnay  come  all  to  drink  into  one  Spirit, 
'  and  keep  the  unity  of  the  Spirit,  which  is  the  bond  of  the 
'  heavenly  peace.  So  being  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God,  ye 
'  are  his  Ions  and  daughters,  and  by  his  Spirit  will  come  to 

*  know  the  three  that  bear  witnefs   in   heaven,   the   Father, 

*  the  Word,  and  the  Holy  Ghoft.  Thefe  are  the  three  v/it- 
'  nclfes  that  are  in  heaven,  that  bear  record  of  all  things  ; 

*  for  he  is  God  in  the  heaven,  and  God  in  the  earth.  There- 
*=  fore  I  dclire  that  ye  may  all  feel  his   love  Ihed  in  your 

*  hearts,  and  in  it  live  (above  the  love  of  the  world,  which 
'  is  enmity)  and  in  that  you  will  keep  in  the  excellent  way. 

*  For  love  edifies  the  body  of  Chrift,  builds  his  church  up, 
'  and  keeps  out  of  the  enmity  ;  for  it  is  above  it,  and  brings 

*  and  keeps  all  in  true  humanity,  and  in  tlie  true  divinity  ; 
'  and  to   be  courteous,  kind,  and  te^der  one  towards  an- 

*  other.      And  fhew   forth  the  nature  of  Chrift,  and  true 

*  chriflianity,  in  ail  your  lives  and  converfations,   that  the 

*  bleliings  of  the  Lord  may  reft  upon  you,   as  ye  all  live  in 

*  the  feed  of  the  gofpel,   the  feed  of  the  kingdom  of  God, 

*  in  which  all  nations  are  bleffed.  In  that  ye  will  all  have 
'  a  care  of  God's   glory.      There  is  the  hill  or  mountain 

*  where  the  light  flnnes  to  the  anlwering  the  witnefs  of  God 
'  in  all,  and  the  fait  that  is  a  good  favour  to  the  witnefs  of 
'  God  in  the  hearts  ot  all;  which  favour  and  fait  being 
'  kept  in,  it  doth  nc't  come  under  the  lect  of  men.  So  my 
'  love  to  you  all  in  Chrift  Jcfus,   whom  God   hath  given  to 

*  be  a  fan6tuary  for  all  his  people,  who  is  from  above,  and 

*  not  of  this  world,  in  whom  ye  have  life,  peace,  and  falva- 
'  tion.  In  !:iui  ('Od  Almighty  keep  and  prelerve  )-ou  all 
'  to  his  giory.  Amen.  As  you  live  in  the  peaceable  truth 
'  of  God,  it  keeps  you  under  and   within   his  proteclion  ; 

*  but  they   that   make  profeliion  <.)f  tlie  fcriptures  of  truth, 

*  and  yet  live  out  of  the   truth,  in   the  fpirit  of  ftrifc,  un- 

*  <^uieti:jfs,  cUiJ  dii'contciit,  in  a  contriving,  plotting,  rave-. 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  317 

'  nous,  deftioying  fpirit,  which  is  of  the  devil,  and  not  of 
'  God,  that  Ipirit  is  iudged  out  of  the  truth,  and  to  be  of 

*  him  in  whom  there  is  no  truth,  whofe   portion  is  in  the 

*  lake,  and  in  the  fire  that  burns. 

'  G.  F.' 
*  Kingfton,  the  27th  of  the 
'  5th  month,  1683/ 

Having  vifited  friends  at  and  about  Kingfton  I  returned 
to  London  ;  for  it  being  a  fufFering  tune  with  friends  there, 
I  had  not  freedom  to  be  long  from  the  city.  I  went  to  the 
meeting  at  the  Peel ;  which  but  a  little  before  the  juff.ices 
and  conftables  had  broken  up,  and  had  carried  themfelves 
very  roughly;  but  that  day  the  meeting  was  in  the  houfe, 
and  quiet,  and  a  glorious  meeting  it  was,  bleffed  be  the 
Lord. 

On  firft-day  following  I  went  to  the  meeting  at  Grace- 
church-ilreet,  where  I  found  three  conftabies  in  the  meeting- 
houfe,  who  kept  friends  out ;  lb  we  met  m  the  court.  After 
I  had  been  fome  time  in  the  meeting,  I  ftood  up,  and  fpoke 
to  the  people,  and  continued  fpeaking  a  pretty  while.  Then 
one  of  the  conftabies  came,  took  hold  of  my  hand,  and  faid, 
'  I  muft  come  down.'  I  deftred  him  to  be  patient,  and 
went  on  fpeaking  to  the  people;  but  after  a  little  time  he 
plucked  me  down,  and  had  me  into  the  meeting-houfe.  I 
afked  them,  if  they  were  not  weary  of  this  woik?  One  of 
them  faid,  '  Indeed  they  were.'  They  let  me  go  into  the 
•widow  Fofter's  houfe,  which  joined  to  the  meeting-houfe, 
where  I  ftaid,  being  hot.  When  the  meeting  was  ended, 
for  one  prayed  after  I  was  taken  away,  the  conftabies  ?{ked 
fome  friends,  '  Which  of  them  would  pafs  their  words  that 

*  I  fliould  appear,  if  they  ftiould  be  queftioned  about  me?' 
But  the  friends  telling  them,  '  They  need  not  require  that, 
'  for  I  was  a  man  well  known  in  the  city  to  be  one  that 

*  would  neither  fly  nor  fhrink ;'  they  came  not  to  me,  but 
went  their  way,  and  I  heard  no  further  of  it.  The  fame 
week  I  v.-as  at  the  meeting  at  the  Savoy,  which  ufed  to  be 
kept  out  and  difturbed;  but  that  day  it  was  within  doors 
and  peaceable,  and  a  precious  meeting  it  was.  The  firft- 
rlay  after  it  was  upon  me  to  go  to  the  meeting  at  Weftmin- 
fter,  where  ufed  to  be  great  difturbances  :  but  there  alfo  the 
meeting  was  within  doors  that  day,  and  was  very  large. 
The  Lord's  power  was  over  all,  and  kept  all  quiet  and  ftiU  ; 
for   though  many  loofe   fpirits  were  there,   yet  they  were 


3ib  GEOPvGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1683 

bound  down  by  the  power  and  Spirit  of  the  Lord,   that 
they  could  not  get  up  to  make  difturbance. 

About   this   time   I  was   moved   to  write   the  following 
epillle  : 

'  Friends  and  brethren, 
^Ti  7" HO  have  received  the  peaceable  truth,  let  the  fruits 
V  V    of  its  penceablenefs,  and  of  your  quiet  fpirit  appear 
in  all  your  meetings  and  in  all  your  words  and  a6lions; 
for  he  that  inhabits  eternity  dwells  with  an  humble  heart, 
and    he    gives    grace    to    the    humble,    and    relifteth    the 
proud.      Heaven  is   his    throne,    and   the   earth   ye   walk 
upon  is  his  footftool :  happy  are  ye  that  fee  and  know 
hmi    that  is  invifibie.      And  now,  friends,  let  all  things 
be  done  in  your  meetings  and  othervvife,  in  love,   with- 
out ftrife,    or  vain-glory.     For  love  fulfils  the  law,   love 
overcomes  and  ediiies  the  body  of  Chrift.     There  is  nei- 
ther felf,  nor  envy  in  love,  neither  is  it  puffed  up;   but 
abides  and  bears  all  things.      See  that  this  love  of  God 
have  the  fway  in  you  all,  and  over  you  all.      Chrift  faith, 
Blelfed  are  the  poor  in  fpirit,  for  theirs  is  the  kingdom  of 
heaven;   bleffed  are  they  that  mourn,  for  they  fhall  be 
comforted.     Bleffed  are  the  meek,  for  they  fhall  inherit 
the  earth.     Bleffed  are  they  that  hunger  and  thirft  after 
righteoufnefs,  for  they  (hall    be  filled.     Bleffed  are   the 
merciful,   for  they  ihall  obtain  mercy.     Bleffed  are   the 
pure  in  heart,  for  they  fhall  fee  God.     Bleffed  are  the 
peace-makers,   for  they   fliall   be  called   the   children   of 
God.     Bleil'ed  are  they  that  are  perfecuted  for  righteouf- 
nefs  fake,   for   theirs   is  the  kingdom  of  heaven.     Blef- 
fed  are   ye   when   men    fhall    revile   you    and   perfecute 
you,  and  ftiall  fay  all  manner  of  evil  againft  you  falfely 
for  my  fake;   rejoice  and  be  exceeding  glad;  for  great  is 
your  icward  in  heaven ;   for  fo  perfecuted  they  the  pro- 
phets that  were  before  you."    Now  friends,  here  is  a  great 
deal  in  thefe  words.     All  muft  be  in  thefe  Hates  and  con- 
ditions, if  they  have  thefe  bleflings.     The  children  of  God 
are  peace-makers,  and  flrive  to  make  peace  in  the  truth  ; 
and  to  live  in  peace  with  all  men,  if  it  be  poihble.     So  live 
in  the  peace  and  the  good-will  to  all  men  ;   which  good- 
will is   both  for  their  fantlification  and  falvation.      And 
friends,  conhder,  the  wifdom  of  God,  which  is  from  above, 
is  pure,  peaceable,  gentle,  and  eafy  to  be  intreated,  full  of 
nva'cy  and  good  fruits,  \vithout  partiality  and  without  hy- 


1683]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  319 

*  pocrify.  Dear  friends,  let  this  pure,  peaceable,  gentle, 
'  wifdom  that  is  from  above,  that  is  eafy  to  be  intreatcd, 
'  and  is  full  of  mercy  and  good  fruits,  be  exercifed  and 
'  pradifed  in  all  the  true  churches  of  Chrift ;  that  vvirdom 
'  may  be  juflified  of  her  children.  For  the  works  of  the 
'  flefli,  or  flefhly  fpirit,  are  hatred,  variance,  wrath,  ftrife, 
'  envyings,    drunkennefs,    revellings,    adultery,   fornication, 

*  lafcivioufnefs,  uncleannefs,  &c.  and  they  which  do  fuch 
'  things,  fhall  not  inherit  the  kingdom  of  God.  But  the 
'  fruits  of  the  Spirit  of  God  are  love,  joy,  peace,  long-fuf- 
'  fering,  gentlenefs,  goodnefs,  faith,  meckncls,  temperance, 
'  &c.  So,  dear  friends  and  brethren,  Itrive  to  exceed  one 
'  another  and  all  people  upon  the  earth  in  humility,  in 
'  meeknefs,  in  gentlenefs,  in  temperance,  in  love,  in  pa- 
'  tience,  in  purenefs,  and  in  mercy ;  then  ye  will  thew  forth 
'  the  fruits  of  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  of  his  heavenly  wif- 
'  dom  that  is  from  above.  In  th:r.  wifdom  Vw-ill  be  juflified 
'  of  her  children  ;  and  ye  will  be  the  fait  of  the  earth,  and  a 
'  light  to  the  world  fet  on  an  hill,  that  cannot  be  hid  :  and 
'  your  moderation  will  appear  to  all  men.  Be  ye  juft  and 
'  righteous,  faithful  and  true  in  all  your  words,  dealings,  and 

*  converfations;  that  ye  may  anfwer  the  truth  in  all  people: 
'  for  Chrift  faith,  his  father  is  glorified  by  fuch  as  bring 
'  forth  fruits,  when  men  fee  their  good  works ;  for  he  that 
'  doth  righteoufnefs,  is  accepted  with  God.  And  he  that 
'  dwells  HI  love,  dwells  in  God ;  for  love  is  his  habication. 

*  Let  that  be  the  habitation  of  every  one  that  hath  received 

*  the  truth  :  for  if  it  be  not,  fuch  do  not  dwell  in  God,  let 
'  them  profefs  what  they  will.  Therefore  my  deiire  is,  that 
'  ail  you,  who  have  received  Chrift  the  feed,  which  bruifes 

*  the  ferpent's  head,   may  walk  in  him  your  i'ancluary,  lile, 

*  and  falvation,  your  reft  and  peace.  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  14th  of  the 
'  6th  month,  1083.' 

I  continued  yet  at  London,  labouring  in  the  work  and 
fcrvice  of  the  Lord  both  in  and  out  of  metlings  ;  fometimc-i 
vifitmg  friends  in  prifon  for  the  teftiniony  of  Jefus,  encou- 
raging them  in  their  fufferings,  and  exhorting  them  to  ftand 
faithful  and  fteadfaft  in  the  teftiniony  which  the  Lord  had 
committed  to  them  to  bear  :  fometimes  alio  vifitmg  thole 
that  were  fick  and  weak  in  body,  or  troubled  in  mind, 
helping  to  bear  their  i'pirits  up  from  finking  und^-r  their  ia- 


J26  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [168  j 

firmities.  Sometimes  our  meetings  were  quiet  and  peacea- 
ble, fometimes  they  were  didurbed  and  broken  up  by  the 
officers.  One  firft-day  it  was  upon  me  to  go  to  the  meet- 
ing at  the  Savoy,  which  was  large  :  for  many  profeffors  and 
fober  people  were  there.  The  Lord  opened  many  precious 
weighty  things  in  me  to  the  people,  which  I  declared 
amongft  them,  and  '  dire6led  them  to  the  ipirit  of  God  in 
'  theml'elves,  which  the  Lord  had  given  them  a  meafure  of ; 
'  that  all  by  the  Spirit  might  underftand  the  Scriptures, 
'  which  were  given  forth  from  the  Spirit  of  God  ;  and  that 
'  by  the  Spirit  of  God  they  might  know  God,  and  Chriil; 
'  whom  God  hath  fent,  whom  to  know  is  eternal  life;  and 
'  that  by  the  Spirit  they  might  all  come  into  Chrift,  and 
'  know  him  to  be  their  fancluary,  who  dedroys  the  devil, 
'  the  deftroyer,  and  his  works,  and  bruifes  the  ferpent's 
'  head.  For  Chrift  was  a  fan6fuary  to  them  to  whom  he 
'  was  a  Saviour,  whom  ha  faved  from  the  deftroyer.  And 
'  Chrift  did  baptize  them  with  the  Holy  Ghoft  and  with 
'  fire,  and  did  thoroughly  purge  his  floor,  and  burn  up 
'  their  chafF  with  unquenchable  fire  ;  that  is,  fin  and  cor- 
'  ruption,  which  is  got  into  man  and  woman  by  their  tranl- 
'  greffion  :  but  Chnft  gathereth  his  wheat  into  his  garner. 
'  So  all  that  are  baptized  with  Clirift's  b<iptifm,  their  wheat 
'  is  in  God's  garner;  and  no  fpoiler  can  get  into  God's  gar- 
'  ner  to  meddle  with  the  wheat  there,  though  they  may  be 
'  permitted  to  meddle  with  the  outward  goods,  &c.  As  I 
was  fpeaking  in  the  power  of  the  Lord,  and  the  people  were 
greatly  affected  therewith,  on  a  fudden  the  conftabies,  with 
the  rude  people,  came  in  like  a  fea.  One  of  the  conftabies 
laid,  '  Come  down,'  and  laid  hands  on  me.  I  afktd  him, 
'  Art  thou  a  Chriftian  ?  We  are  chriftians.'  He  had  hold 
on  my  hand,  and  was  very  fierce  to  pluck  me  down  ;  but 
1  ftood  Hill,  and  fpoke  a  few  words  to  the  people  ;  defir- 
ing  of  the  Lord,  that  the  bleftings  of  God  might  reft  upon 
them  all.  The  conftabic  ftill  called  upon  me  to  come 
down,  and  at  length  plucked  mc  down,  and  bid  another 
man  with  a  ftaff',  '  Take  and  carry  me  to  prifon.'  That 
man  had  me  to  another  officer's  houfe,  who  was  more  ci- 
vil ;  and  after  awhile  thev  brought  in  four  friends  more, 
whom  they  had  taken,  I  was  very  weary,  and  in  a  great 
Iweat ;  and  Icveral  friends  hearing  where  I  was,  came  to 
me  in  the  conftable's  houfe  :  but  I  bid  them  all  go  their 
ways,  left,  the  conftabies  and  informers  ftiould  ftop  them. 
After  awhile  the  conftaUes  had  us  almoft  a  mile  to  ajui- 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  321 

tice,  who  was  a  fierce,  paflionate  man  :  who,  after  he  had 
afked  me  my  name,  and  his  clerk  had  taken  it  in  writing, 
upon  the  conftable's  informing  him,  *  That  I  preached  in 
'  the  meeting,'  faid  in  an  ahgry  manner,  '  Do  not  you 
'  know  that  it  is  contrary  to  the  king's  laws  to  preach  in 
'  fuch  conventicles,  contrary  to  the  liturgy  of  the  church  of 

*  England  ?'  There  was  prefent  one  Shad  (a  wicked  inform- 
er, who  was  faid  to  have  broken  gaol  at  Coventry,  and  to 
have  been  burnt  in  the  hand  at  London)  who  hearing  the 
juftice  fpeak  fo  to  me,  ftepped  up  to  him,  and  told  him, 
'  That  he  had  convifted  them  on  the  a6l  of  the  2  2d  of  king 
'  Charles  the  Second.'  '  What  !  you  convitt  them  ?'  faid 
the  juflice.  '  Yes,'  faid  Shad,  '  I  have  convifted  them, 
'  and  you  muft  convift  them  too  upon  that  atl.'  With 
that  the  juflice  was  angry  with  him,  and  faid,  '  You  teach 
'  me  !  What  are  you  ?  I'll  convifl  them  of  a  riot.'  The 
informer  hearing  that,  and  feeing  the  juftice  angry,  went 
away  in  a  fret ;  fo  he  was  difappointcd  of  his  purpofe.  I 
thought  he  would  have  Iworn  fomebody  againft  me  :  where- 
upon I  faid,  '  Let  no  man  fwear  againft  me,  for  it  is  my 
'  principle,  '  Not  to  fwear;'  and  therefore  I  would  not 
'  have  any  man  fwear  againft  me.'  The  juftice  there- 
upon afked  me,  '  If  I  did  not  preach  in  the  meeting  ?'  I 
told  him,   '  I  did  confefs  what  God  and  Chrift  had  done  for 

*  my  foul ;  and  did  praife  God.  I  thought  I  might  have 
'  done  that  in  the  ftreets,  and  in  all  places,  viz.  praife  God, 
'  and  confefs  Chrift  Jefus ;  which  1  was  not  aftiamed  tocon- 
'  fefs.  Neither  was  this  contrary  to  the  liturgy  of  the 
'  church  of  England.'  The  juftice  faid,  '  The  laws  were 
'  againft  fuch  meetings  as  were  contrary  to  the  liturgy  of  the 

*  church  of  England.'  1  faid,  '  I  knew  no  fuch  laws  againft 
'  our  meetings ;  but  if  he  did  mean  that  aft  that  was  made 
'  againft  fuch  as  did  meet  to  plot,  contrive,  and  raife  in- 
'  furreftions  againft  the  king,  we  were  no  fuch  people,  but 
'  did  abhor  all   fuch  a6lions  ;  and  did  bear  true  love  and 

*  good-will  to  the  king,  and  to  all  men  upon  the  earth.' 
The  juftice  then  aflced  me,  '  If  I  had  been  ui  orders  ?'  I 
told  him,  No.  Then  he  took  his  law-books,  and  fearched 
for  laws  againft  us,  bidding  his  clerk  take  the  names  of  the 
reft  the  mean  time.  But  when  he  could  find  no  other  law 
againft  us,  the  clerk  fwore  the  conftable  againft  us.  Some 
of  the  friends  bid  the  conftable  '  take  heed  what  he  fwore, 
'  left  he  were  perjured;  for  he  took  them  in  the  entry,  and 
'  not  in  the  meeting.'     Yet  the  conftable,  being  an  ill  man, 

Vol.   II.  s  s 


322  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1683 

fwore,  •  That  they  were  in  the  meeting/  However,  the 
juflice  faid,  '  Seeing  there  was  but  one  witnefs,  he  would 
'  diicharge  the  rell ;  but  he  would  fend  me  to  Newgate, 
'  and    I  might  preach  there.'     I   afked   him,   '  If  it  ftood 

*  with  his  confcience  to  fend  me  to  Newgate  for  praifmg 
'  God,  and  for  confeffing  Chrift  Jefus  ?'   He  cried,  '   Con- 

*  fcience  !  confcience !'  but  I  felt  my  words  touched  his 
'  confcience.  He  bid  the  conftable  '  take  me  away,  and 
'  he  would  make  a  mittimus  to  fend  me  to  prifon  when  he 
'  had  dnied.'  I  told  him,  '  I  defired  his  peace,  and  the 
"  good  of  his  family  ;  and  that  they  might   be   kept  in  the 

*  fear  of  the  Lord.'  So  I  paffed  away,  and  as  I  went  the 
conftable  took  fome  friends  word  that  I  fhould  come  to  his 
hoafe  the  next  morning  by  the  eighth  hour.  Accordingly 
I  did  go  with  thofe  friends,  and  the  conftable  told  us  he 
went  to  the  juftice  for  the  mittimus  after  he  had  dined  ;  and 
the  juftice  bid  him,  '  Come  again  after  the  evening  fervice  ;' 
which  he  did  •;  and  then  the  juftice  told  him,  '  He  might 
'  let  me  go.'  So,  faid  the  conftable,  you  are  difcharged. 
I  blamed  him  for  turning  informer,  and  fwearing  againft  us. 
He  faid,  '  He  would  do  fo  no  more.'  Next  day,  the  juf- 
tice meeting  with  Gilbert  Laty,  allied  him,  '  If  he  would 
'  pay  twenty    pounds   for    George    Fox's    fine  ?'    He    faid, 

*  No.'     '  Then,'  faid  the  juftice,   '  I  am  difappointed  ;  for, 

*  being  but  a  lodger,  I  cannot  come  by  his  fine  ;  and  he 
'  having  been  brought  before  me,  and  being  of  ability  him- 

*  felf,   I  cannot  lay  his  fine  on  any  other.' 

After  I  was  difcharged,  I  went  iuto  the  city.  The  fame 
week  the  feflions  coming  on,  where  many  friends  were  con- 
cerned, fome  as  prifoncrs,  and  fome  on  trials  of  appeals 
upon  the  conventicle  acl,  I  went  to  a  friend's  houfe  not  far 
off,  that  I  might  be  in  readinefs  to  aftift  thofe  friends  with 
counfel,  or  otherwife,  as  occafion  fhould  offer;  and  I  found 
fervice  in  it.  But  as  my  fpirit  was  concerned  on  behalf  of 
friends,  with  reipedl;  to  their  outward  fufferings  by  the  per- 
fecutors  without ;  fo  an  exercife  alfo  came  weightily  upon 
me  at  this  time,  in  the  fenfe  I  had  of  the  mifchievous  work- 
ing of  that  adulterated  fpirit,  which,  being  gone  out  from 
the  heavenly  unity,  and  having  drawn  out  fome  that  pro- 
fcffed  truth  into  enmity  and  oppofition  againft  friends,  en- 
deavoured to  trouble  the  church  of  Chrift  with  their  jan- 
glmgs  and  contention.  And  as  a  further  dil'covery  of  the 
working  of  that  feducing  fpirit,  and  a  warning  to  all  friends 
to  beware  of  it,   I  was  moved  to  write  th-2  following  epiftle : 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  323 

*  To  all  the  eleft,  faithful,  called,  and  chofen  of  God, 
'  the  flock  and  heritage  of  God,    who  have  been  ac- 

*  quainted   with   the  dealings  of  the  Lord,  and   have 

*  kept  your  habitations  in  his  life,  power,  and  truth, 
'  being  built  upon  the  holy  heavenly  Rock  and  Foun- 
'  dation    Chrift  jefus,  who  was  the  foundation  of  the 

*  prophets  and  apoftles  ;  which  foundation  Hands  fure  : 

*  AT  ANY  foundations  have  been  laid  fmce  the  apoftles 
'  IVX  days,  by  fuch  as  have  gone  from  Chrift  the  true  and 

*  fure  foundation  :  and  their  foundations  have  proved  rotten, 

*  and  come  to  nought,  and  themfelves  have  come  to  lofs. 
'  Many  fince  the  day  of  Chrift,   and  the  truth  hath  appear- 

*  ed  in  this  nation,  have  had  fome  openings  and  fights,  and 

*  come  among  us  for  a  time,  and  then  gone  from  us  again  ; 

*  who  have  been  the  comers   and  goers,   like   thofe  in  the 

*  apoftles  days.      Such   had  an  outward   profeflion   of  the 

*  truth,  and  have  gone  from  the  true  foundation  Chrift  Je- 

*  fus,  and    fo  from   the  heavenly   fociety   and  unity  of  the 

*  faints  in  light.     Then  they  fet  up  foundations  of  their  own, 

*  and  having  a  form  of  godlinefs.  but  out  of  the  power  there- 

*  of,  out  of  the  order  thereof,  fuch  have  turned  to  janglings 
'  and  vain  difputings.  This  fpirit  you  have  been  acquaint- 
'  ed  with,  who  have  kept  your  habitations  in  Chrift  Jefus, 
'  the  Firft  and  the  Laft.     And  you  are  not  infenfible  of  the 

*  fcurrilous  and  filthy  books  of  lies  and  defamations  which 
'  have  been  fpread  abroad  in  this  nation  and  beyond  fea 
'  againft  the  faithful.      It  is  very  well  that  the  Lord  hath 

*  fuff'ered  them  to  publifti   their  own  fliame  in  print,  that 

*  truth's  enemies  may  be  difcovered  ;  their  fruits  and  fpirits 

*  have  appeared,  and  manifcfted  themfelves   both  in  print 

*  and   otherwife.     And    I   believe  the  Lord  will  yet  fuffer 

*  this  fpirit  fo  to  publifti  its  fruits,  its  fliame  and  nakednefs, 

*  to  profeflbr  and  profane,  and  to  all  fober,   moderate  and 

*  innocent  people,  that  its  fhame  and  nakednefs  may  more 
<  fully   appear.     Though  for  a  time  it  hath  been  hid  and 

*  covered  with  the  fig-leaves  of  an  outward  profelfion,  and 
'  fometimes  with  fawning  and   flattering  words  (as  at  other 

*  times  it  hath  difcovered  itfelf  by  rough,  lying,  and  dtsfam- 

*  ing  words)   yet   the    Lord  God  will    blaft    all  fuch   vain 

*  talkers,  that  do  not  walk  in  the  order  of  life,  truth,  and 
'  the  gofpel.  Therefore,  ye  that  are  faithful,  ftand  faft  in 
'  the  liberty  wherewith  Chrift  hath  made  you  free, in  his  go- 

*  vernment.     It  is  upon  his  ftioulders  :  fie  bears  it  up  :  of 

s  s  2 


324  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1685 

'  the  increafe  of  it  and  of  its  peace  there  is  no  end.      For  all 

*  quarrellers  a^^ainfl  his  order  and  government  are  not   in 

*  him,  nor  in  his  heavenly,  fpiritoal  government  and  peace. 

*  Therefore,  ye    faithful    ones,     who   have    flood    the  trial 

*  through    many  perfecutions,  imprifonments,  fpoilings  of 

*  goods,  you  know  there  is  a  crown  of  glory  laid  up  for  you. 
'  You  that  fuiter  with  Chrift,  fhall  reign  with   hrni  in  his 

*  kingdom  of  glory  ;  ye  that  die  with  Chrift,  fhall  live  with 

*  him  in  eternal  life,  in  the  world  that  hath  no  end,  who 
'  have  gone  through  the  lufFerings  without,  and  within  by 
'  falfe  brethren,  by  comers  and  goers,  that  have  caufed  the 

*  way  of  truth  to  be  evil  fpoken  of,  and  have  been  perlecut- 
'  ors   of  the   faithful  with  their   tongues ;   and   by  printing 

*  and   publifhing   their  lying,  defl^ming  books   againft    the 

*  faithful.     Thele  have   ftirred  up  magiftrates  and  priefls, 

*  who  were  willing  to  get  any  occafion  to  fpeak  evil  of  the 
'  right  way  and  precious  truth  of  Chrift,  by  which  his  peo- 

*  pie  are  made  free  :  fuch  had  better  never  have  been  born, 
'  But  God  hath  brought  them  to  light,  and  their  fruits  and 
'  ravenous  fpirit  are  feen,  favoured,  and  known  ;  who  are 

*  become  Judas's  and  fons  of  perdition,  to  betray  Chrift 
'  now  within  (where  he  is  made  manifeft)  to  the  pricfts,  ma- 

*  giftrates,  and  profane,  as    Judas    betrayed    Chrift  without 

*  to  the  priefts  and  Pilate.     Though  fome  of  the  magiftrates 

*  and  Ibber  people  fee  their  envy  and  folly,  and  that  they 

*  have  more  malice  than  matter  againft  the  faithful.     The 

*  Lord  will  confume  this  Judas,  or  fon  of  perdition  !   The 

*  Lord  will  confume  him  with  the  Spirit  of  his  mouth,  and 
'  deftroy  him  with  the  brightnefs  of  his  coming  !  So  let  all 
'  the  faithful  look  unto  the  Lord.  And  let  that  wicked  fon 
'  of  perdition  know,  though  he  may  be  got  as  high  as  Judas 

*  (who  was  partaker  of  the  miniftry  with  the  apoftles)  "  the 
*'  Lord  will  confume  him  with  the  Spirit  of  his  mouth,  and 
''■  deftroy  him  with  the  brightnefs  of  his  coming."  That  ii? 
'  his  portion.    The  brightnefs  of  the  Lord  will  deftroy  him, 

*  and  the  Spirit  of  his  mouth  will  confume  him.    And  when 

*  he  is  deftroyed  and  confumed,  there  will  not  be  a  fon  of 
'  perdition  to  betray  Chrift  in  his  people,   and  his   people 

*  that  live  and  walk  in  ChrifJ,  who  hath  all  power  in  hea- 
'  ven   (mark,  in  heaven)  and  in  earth  given  to  him  ;  and 

*  with  his  holy  and  glorious  power  he  limits  and  orders ;  fo 
'  that  nothing  (hall  be  done  againft  his  people,  but  what  is 
'  fuiTcred  for  their  trial  and  their  good,  neither  by  apoftates, 

*  perfccutoi's  with  the  tongue.  Juda;;'s,  fons  of  perdition  to 


1683]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  325 

*  betray,  or  the  outward  powers  to  imprifon,  or  fpoil  goods ; 
'  all  thefe  are  limited  by    Ciirift   who   hath  all  power  in 

*  heaven  and  earth  given  to  him.  Every  one's  faith  is  to 
'  Hand  in  him  and  his  power.      Such  rejoice  in  his  power, 

*  and  fee  the  increafe  of  his  righteous,  holy,  heavenly,  fpi, 

*  ritual,  peaceable  government,  in  which  the  glorious,  holy 
'  order  of  life  is  lived  and  walked  in  by  all  his  fons  and 
'  daughters ;  and  in  his  Spirit  is  the  holy  unity  and  bond  of 

*  peace.  Though  ye  be  abfent  in  body  one  from  another, 
'  yet  all  joying  and  rejoicing,   being  prefent  in  his  Spirit, 

*  and  beholding  in  the   fame   Spirit  your  fpiritual   order, 

*  unity,  fellowfhip,  and  the  fleadfaftnefs  of  your  faith  in 
'  Chrift  Jefus,  who  is  fleadfafl  for  ever,   the  Firft  and  the 

*  Laft,   whofe  prefence   is  among  his  people,    and  who  is 

*  their  head.  Here  is  heavenly  Sion  known,  and  heavenly 
'  Jerufalem,  and  the  innumerable  company  of  angels  (which 
'  are  fpirits)  and  the  fpirits  of  the  juft  men  made  peifeft. 

*  Here  is  the  general  affembly,  or  general  meeting,   and  a 

*  general  heavenly,  holy,  and  fpiritual  joy  and  rejoicing, 
'  lauding  and  praifing  the  Lord  God  Almighty,  and  thq 
'  Lamb  that  lives  for  evermore,   Amen. 

*  G.  F.' 
*  London,  the  14th  of  the 
*  8th  month,  1683. 

'  Read  this  in  your  affemblies  amongft  the  faithful. 

I  tarried  a  little  in  London,  vifitins^  friends  and  meetinos, 
and  labouring  in  the  work  of  the  Lord.  And  being  on  a 
firft-day  at  the  Bull  and  Mouth,  where  the  meeting  had 
long  been  kept  without,  it  was  that  day  in  the  houfe,  peace- 
able and  large :  the  people  were  fo  afFecled  with  the  truth, 
and  refrefhed  with  the  powerful  prefence  of  the  Lord,  tha£ 
when  the  meeting  ended,  they  were  loth  to  go  away. 

After  fome  time,  having  feveral  things  upon  me  to  write, 
I  went  to  Kingfton,  that  I  might  be  free  from  interruptions. 
When  I  came  there,  I  underllood  the  ofBcers  had  been  very 
rude  at  the  meeting,  abuiing  friends,  and  had  driven  them 
out  of  the  meeting-place,  and  very  abuhve  they  continued 
to  be  for  fome  time.  Whilll  I  was  there  I  wrote  a  little 
book  (printed  foon  after)  the  title  whereof  was  :  '  The  faints 
'  heavenly  and  fpiritual  worfnip,  unity,  and  communion,  &c, 

*  wherein  is  fet  forth  what  the  true  gofpel-worfhip  is,  and  in 

*  what  the  true  unity  and  compiunion  of  the  faints  (lands  i 


326  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1684 

*  with  a  difcovery  of  thofe  that  were  gone  from  this  holy 

*  unity  and  communion,  and  were  turned  againft  the  faints 

*  that  abode  therein.* 

When  I  had  finiflied  the  fervices  for  which  I  went  thi- 
ther, and  had  vifited  the  friends,  I  returned  to  London,  and 
vifited  mofl  of  the  meetings  in  and  about  the  city.  After- 
wards I  went  to  vifit  a  friend  in  Eifex ;  and  returning  by 
Dalflon,  I  made  fome  ftay  at  the  widow  Slot's,  where  I 
wrote  an  epiftie  to  friends,  which  may  be  read  amongft  my 
other  printed  books. 

I  came  from  Dalflon  to  London,  and  the  next  day  was 
fent  for  in  hade  to  my  fon  Roufe's  at  Kingfton  ;  whofe 
daughter  Margaret  lay  very  fick,  and  had  a  defire  to  fee 
me.  I  tarried  at  Kingfton  about  a  week,  and  then  returned 
to  London ;  where  I  continued  moft  part  of  the  winter  and 
the  fpring  following,  until  the  general  meeting  in  1684  (fave 
that  I  went  once  as  far  as  Enfield,  to  vifit  friends  there- 
abouts.) In  this  time  I  ceafed  not  to  labour  in  the  work 
of  the  Lord,  being  frequent  at  meetings,  and  vifiting  friends 
that  were  prifoners.  or  that  were  lick,  and  in  writing  books 
for  the  fpreading  of  truth,  and  opening  the  underftandings 
of  people  to  receive  it. 

The  yearly  meeting  was  in  the  third  month.  A  blefTed, 
weighty  meeting  it  was,  wherein  friends  were  fweetly  re- 
frcfhed  together;  for  the  Lord  was  with  us,  and  opened  his 
heavenly  treafures  amongft  us.  And  though  it  was  a  time 
of  great  dilhculty  and  danger,  by  reafon  of  informers  and 
persecuting  magiftrates.  yet  the  Lord  was  a  defence  and 
place  of  fafety  to  his  people. 

Now  I  had  drawings  in  Spirit  to  go  into  Holland,  to 
vifit  the  feed  of  God  in  thofe  provinces.  And  as  foon  as 
the  yearly  meeting  was  over,  I  prepared  for  my  journey. 
There  went  with  me  from  London  Alexander  Parker, 
George  Watts,  and  Nathaniel  BrafTey,  who  alfo  had  draw- 
ings into  that  country.  We  took  coach  the  31ft  of  the  third 
month  1684,  and  got  to  Colchefter  that  night.  Next  day, 
being  firft-day,  v/e  went  to  the  meeting  there;  and  though 
there  was  no  notice  given  of  my  coming,  our  being  there 
was  prcfentiy  iprcad  over  the  town,  and  in  feveral  places  in 
the  country,  at  fevcn  and  ten  miles  diftance;  fo  that  abun- 
dance of  friends  came  ir?  doublc-horfed,  which  made  the 
meeting  very  large.  I  had  a  concern  and  travail  in  my 
mind,  left  this  great  gathering  fhould  have  ftirred  up  the 
town,  and  been  more  than  the  magiftrates  could  well  bear 3' 


1684]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  327 

but  it  was  very  quiet  and  peaceable,  and  a  glorious  meeting 
we  had,  to  the  fettling  and  ftabliftiing  of  friends  both  in  the 
town  and  country  :  for  the  Lord's  power  was  over  all ; 
blefTed  be  his  name  for  ever !  Truly,  the  Lord's  power  and 
prefence  was  beyond  words ;  for  I  was  but  weak  to  go  into 
a  meeting,  and  my  face  (by  reafon  of  a  cold)  was  fore :  but 
God  manifefted  his  llrength  in  us  and  with  us,  and  all  was 
well ;  the  Lord  have  the  glory  for  evermore  for  his  fupport- 
ing  power.  After  the  meeting  came,  I  think,  above  an  hun- 
dred friends  of  the  town  and  country  to  fee  me  at  John 
Furley's.  Very  glad  we  were  to  fee  one  another,  and  great- 
ly refrelhed  we  were  together,  being  filled  with  the  love  and 
riches  of  the  Lord ;  bleffed  be  his  name  for  ever ! 

We  tarried  at  Colchefler  two  days  more  ;  which  we  fpent 
in  vifiting  friends,  both  at  their  meetings  for  bufinefs,  and 
at  their  houfes.  Early  in  the  morning  on  fourth-day  we 
took  coach  for  Harwich,  where  we  met  William  Bingley 
and  Samuel  Waldenfield,  who  went  over  with  us.  About 
the  eighth  hour  at  night  we  went  on  board  the  paquet- 
boat,  Richard  Gray,  mafter  ;  but  by  reafon  of  contrary 
winds  it  was  the  firft  hour  in  the  morning  before  we  failed. 
We  had  a  very  good  pafTage  ;  and  about  the  fifth  hour  in 
the  afternoon  next  day  we  landed  at  the  Brill  in  Holland, 
where  we  ftaid  that  night.  Early  next  morning  we  went 
to  Rotterdam,  where  we  abode  fome  days.  The  next  day 
after  we  came  to  Rotterdam,  one  Wilbert  Frouzen,  a  burgo- 
mafler,  and  kinfman  of  Aarent  Sunneman's,  hearing  I  was 
there,  invited  me  to  his  country-houfe,  having  a  defire  to 
fpeak  with  me  about  fome  bufmefs  relating  to  Aarent  Sun- 
neman's daughters.  I  took  George  Watis  with  me,  and  a 
brother  of  Aarent  Sunneman's  had  us  thither.  The  burgo- 
mafter  received  us  very  kindly,  was  glad  to  fee  me,  and 
entering  into  difcourfe  about  his  kinlVnan's  daughters,  I 
found  he  was  apprehenfive  that,  their  father  being  dead,  and 
having  left  them  confiderable  portions,  thev  niighr,  be  ftolen, 
and  married  to  their  difadvantage.  Wherefore  1  told  him. 
'  It  was  our  principle  and  praftice,  that  none  Ihould  marry 
'  am.ongft  us,  unlefs  they  had  a  certificate  of  the  confent  of 
'  their  relations  or  guardians ;  for  it  was  our  Chrillian  care 
'  to  watch  over  and  look  after  all  young  people  that  came 
'  among  us,  efpecially  thofe  whole  relations  were  dead. 
•  And  its  for  his  kinfman's  daughters,  v/e  fhould  take  care 
'  that  nothing  fhould  be  offered  to  them  but  what  ihould 
'  be  agreeable  to  truth  and  rightcoufnefs.    and   that  they 


jzS  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1684 

'  might  be  prefcrved  in  the  fear  of  God,  according  to  their 

•  father's  mind.'  This  feemed  to  give  him  great  fatisfa6lion. 
While  I  was  with  him,  there  came  many  great  people  to 
me ;  and  '  I  exhorted  them  all  to  keep  in  the  fear  of  God, 
'  and  to  mind  his  good  Spirit  in  them,  to  keep  their  mmds 

*  to  the  Lord.'  After  I  had  ftaid  two  or  three  hours,  and 
difcoLirfed  with  them  of  feveral  things,  I  took  my  leave,  and 
he  very  kindly  fent  me  to  Rotterdam  in  his  chariot. 

.  Next  day,  being  firft-day,  we  were  at  the  meeting  at 
Rotterdam,  which  was  pretty  large,  and  declared  to  the 
people  by  an  interpreter.  The  day  following  alderman 
Gaul  came  to  fpeak  with  me,  with  whom  we  had  much 
difcourfe  about  religious  matters ;  wherewith  he  feemed  to 
be  well  fatisfied,  and  was  very  tender.  Several  other  per- 
fons  of  account  intended  to  have  come  to  fpeak  with  me, 
but  being  hindered  by  extraordinary  buiinefs  (as  I  under- 
flood}  they  came  not. 

We  went  next  day  from  Rotterdam  to  Amfterdam,  where 
we  had  a  large  and  very  precious  meeting.  In  the  after- 
noon I  was  at  another  meeting  with  friends  there,  about 
bufinefs. 

There  is  a  yearly  meeting  at  Amfterdam  for  the  friends 
of  Holland  and  Germany,  &c.  which  begun  now  the  eighth 
ot  the  fourth  month,  and  ended  the  tivdfth.  Here  we  had 
a  fine  opportunity  of  feeing  friends  from  divers  parts,  and 
of  being  refrefhed  together  in  the  love  of  God.  After  this 
meeting,  before  thofe  that  came  out  of  the  feveral  provinces 
were  gone,  we  had  a  meeting  with  fome  particular  friends, 
about  the  places  and  countries  into  which  we,  who  came 
out  of  England  in  the  work  of  the  miniftry,  were  to  travel; 
and  to  inquire  who  among  them  were  fuitable  perfons  to  go 
along  with  us  as  interpreters.  This  concluded  on,  William 
Bingjcy  and  Samuel  Waldenfield  took  fhipping  for  Frief- 
land,  with  Jacob  Glaus  their  interpreter. 

Alexander  Parker  and  George  Watts  remained  with  me. 
We  tarried  a  few  days  longer  at  Amfterdam.  where  I  had 
further  fervice.  Before  I  left  Amfterdam,  I  went  to  vifit 
Galenus  Abrahams,  a  teacher  of  chief  note  among  the  Men- 
nonites.  or  Baptifts.  I  had  been  with  him  when  I  was  in 
Holland  about  leven  years  before  ;  and  William  Pcnn  and 
George  Keith  had  difputes  with  him.  He  was  then  very 
high  and  very  Ihy,  fo  that  he  would  not  let  me  touch  him, 
nor  look  upon  him  (by  his  good-will)  but  bid  me  "  Keep 
ny*  eyes  oft' him  ;  for,"  he  Icud,  "  they  pierced  him."     But 


1684]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  329 

now  he  was  very  loving  and  tender,  and  confelTed  in  foma 
mealure  to  truth :  his  wife  alfo  and  daughter  were  tender 
and  kind,  and  we  parted  from  them  very  lovingly.  Feeling 
our  fpirits  drawn  towards  P'riefland,  Alexander  Parker, 
George  Watts,  and  I,  having  John  Claus  of  Arnflerdam 
with  us  for  our  interpreter,  took  fhipping  at  Amfterdam  for 
Friefland,  and  having  failed  nine  or  ten  leagues,  we  left 
the  fhip  and  travelled  through  Friefland,  vifiting  friends  and 
tender  people  in  the  towns  and  villages,  having  commonly 
one,  fometimes  two  meetings  in  a  day.  After  we  had  been 
at  Leuwarden,  wepaflTed  by  Franeker  to  Harlingen  in  Weft- 
Friefland,  which  was  the  furtheft  place  we  went  to  that  way. 
And  having  been  out  fix  days  from  Amfterdam,  and  had 
very  good  fervice  in  that  time,  in  vifiting  friends  and  pub- 
lifhing  truth  amongft  the  people,  we  took  fhip  at  Harlingen 
for  Amfterdam  the  26th  of  the  fourth  month,  and  arrived 
there  that  night.  The  firft-day  following  we  were  at  the 
meeting  at  Amfterdam,  which  was  very  large  and  precious. 
Many  of  the  people  were  there,  and  fome  of  their  teachers, 
fome  great  perlons  alfo.  They  feemed  very  attentive,  and 
a  good  opportunity  we  all  had,  one  after  another,  to  de- 
clare the  word  of  the  Lord  and  open  the  way  of  truth 
amongft  them,  John  Claus  interpreting  for  us.  I  tarried 
the  next  day  at  Amfterdam;  but  George  Watts  went  to  a 
burial  at  Plarlem,  where  many  hundreds  of  people  were ; 
amongft  whom  he  had  a  good  opportunity,  and  came  back 
at  night  to  us. 

The  day  following  we  went  by  boat  to  Ofanoverton  in  Wa- 
terland.  and  from  thence  in  another  fmall  boat  about  a  league 
over  a  fmall  river,  where  v/e  palled  over  and  by  an  hundred 
bridges,  and  io  to  l.animeer  to  a  friend's,  whofe  name  was 
Timon  Peters  ;  where  we  had  a  very  good  meeting.  We 
returned  to  Amfterdam  at  night,  and  were  at  the  meeting 
there  next  day.  Many  were  dl  this  meeting  befides  friends, 
among  the  reil  the  great  Baptift-teadier  Galen  lis,  who  was 
very  attentive  to  the  teftimony  of  the  truth,  and  when  the 
meeting  was  done  came  and  got  me  hy  the  liand  very  lov- 
ingly. 

We  went  next  day  by  boat  to  Aikmaer,  about  eight 
leagues  from  Amfterdam,  palling  through  Sardam,  the  great 
town  of  fliip-carpenters,  and  feveral  olher  towns  in  the  way. 
At  Aikmaer,  which  is  a  pretty  city,  we  ftaid  and  had  a 
meeting  next  day  at  William  Williams's.  There  were,  he- 
fides  friends,  many  very  fober  people  at  this  meeting,  who 

\'oL.     II.  T  T 


530  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [16?^^ 

ts-ere  very  attentive  to  the  teftimonies  of  truth  that  were 
borne  by  Alexander  Parker,  George  Watts,  and  myfelf, 
John  Glaus  being  our  interpreter.  This  was  on  a  fixth- 
dav.  and  on  the  feventh  we  returned  to  Amfterdam,  being 
willing  to  be  at  the  meeting  on  firft-day,  becaufe  it  was  like 
to  be  the  laft  meeting  we  fhould  have  there.  Accordingly 
we  were  at  it,  and  a  very  large  and  open  meeting  it  was. 
Many  great  perfons  were  prefent,  fome  earls,  we  were  told, 
with  their  attendants,  out  of  Germany,  who  were  very 
grave  and  fober  ;  and  the  everlafling  gofpel  was  preached 
unto  them. 

After  this  meeting  we  took  leave  of  the  friends  of  Am- 
fterdam, and  next  morning  departed  to  Harlem,  where  we 
had  a  meeting  at  a  friend's,  whofe  name  is  Abraham  Fron- 
denberg.  Great  rmmbers  of  people  were  at  this  meeting, 
and  of  great  fervice  it  was.  After  the  meeting,  a  watch- 
maker of  Amfterdam,  who  with  his  wife  was  at  the  meet- 
ing, defired  to  fpeak  with  me  concerning  religion.  I  had 
pretty  much  difcourfe  with  him,  and  both  he  and  ftie  were 
very  lovv  and  tender,  received  with  gladnefs  what  I  fpoke  tO' 
fchem,  and  feemed  to  depart  well  fatisfied. 

We  went  next  day  to  Rotterdam,  where  we  tarried  two> 
meetings,  and  the  fixteenth  of  the  fifth  month  went  to  the 
Brill,  to  take  fliip  for  Engbard. 

About  four  in  the  afternoon,  we  went  on  board  the  pack- 
et-boat, William  Sherman,  mafter.  and  fet  fail  from  the 
Brill.  When  we  had  gone  over  the  Mafe  about  a  league,. 
we  caft  anchor  at  a  place  called  the  Pit,  becaufe  it  is  near 
the  fands,  where  we  tarried  till  about  four  next  morning; 
when  having  a  pretty  fair  wind,  and  the  tide  with  us,  we 
weighed  anchor,  and  by  four  next  day  were  within  five 
1-eagues  of  Harwich,  over  againft  Alborough  caftle ;  but: 
the  wind  failing  ftiort,  and  the  tide  being  weak,  it  was  the 
firft  hour  in  tlie  afternoon  before  we  came  lb  near  Harwich- 
that  boats  could  come  to  receive  the  paiFengers  and  goods. 
There  were  on  board  about  forty  paiFengers  in  all,  of 
which  fome  were  Englifn,  Ibme  Scots,  fome  Dutch,  fome 
French,  fome  Spanifli,  fome  Fiemilh,  and  lome  Jews. 

I  fpent  a  day  with  friends  at  Harwich,  while  Alexander 
Parker  and  George  Watts  went  to  vifit  friends  at  Ipfwici], 
and  returned  at  night.  Next  morning  early  we  ail  took 
€oach  for  Colchefter,  and  were  at  the  meeting  there,  which 
was  large  and  peaceable;  after  the  meeting  we  trax'elled  to 
Witham  and  lodged  there  that  night.     Next  day,  William 


a.684l  CEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  531 

Mead  meeting  us  on  the  way  at  Hareftreet,  I  went  with 
liim  to   his  houfe,  and  the  other  friends  went  for  London. 

Here,  being  weak  with  travel  and  continual  exercife,  I  fpent 
fome  time  to  red  myfelf  and  recover  my  health  ;  vihting  in 
•the  meantime  friends  in  that  part  of  the  country  as  I  was  able 
to  get  abroad.  When  I  was  a  little  recovered  I  went  to 
Enfieldj  vifiting  friends  there  and  thereabouts,  fo  to  Dal- 
llon  to  fee  the  widow  Stot,  and  from  thence  to  London  ; 
fome  friends  being  come  over  from  New-  }erfey  in  America 
about  bufmefs  vi'hich  I  was  defired  to  be  prefent  at. 

It  was  the  latter  end  of  the  fummer  when  I  came  to  Lon- 
don, where  I  ftaid  the  winter  following ;  fave  once  or 
twice,  my  wife  being  in  town  with  me,  I  went  with  her  to 
her  fon  Roufe's  at  Kingfton.  And  though  my  body  was 
very  weak,  yet  I  was  in  continual  fervice  either  in  publick 
meetings,  when  I  was  able  to  bear  them,  or  in  particular 
bufineiles  among  friends,  and  vifiting  thofe  that  were  fulFer- 
ers  for  truth,  either  by  imprifonment  or  lofs  of  goods. 
Many  things  alfo  in  this  time  I  wrote,  fome  for  the  prefs 
and  fome  for  particular  fervice  ;  as  letters  to  the  king  of 
Denmark,  and  one  to  the  duke  of  Holftein,  on  behalf  of 
friends  that  were  fufferers  in  his  dominions ;  whereof  the  fol- 
lowing is  a  copy : 

'  For  the  duke  of  Holftein ; 

*  Whom  I  do  intreat  in  the  love  of  God  to  read  over  this 

'  which  is  fent  in  love  to  him, 

I  UNDERSTAND  that  formerly,  by  fome  evil-minded 
perfons,  it  was  reported  to  thee,  when  Elizabeth  Hen- 
'  dricks  came  to  Frederickftadt  to  vifit  the  people  called 
'  Quakers,  "  that  it  was  a  fcandal  to  the  chnftian  religion 
"  that  a  woman  Ihould  be  fuffered  to  preach  in  a  pubiick 
'"  affembly  religioufly  gathered  together,"  &c.  Upon 
'  which  thou  gaveft  forth  an  order  to  the  rulers  of  Frede- 
'  rickftadt,  "  to  make  the  faid  people  leave  that  place  forlh- 
"  with,  or  to  fend  them  away."     But  the  faid  Rulers  being 

*  Arminians,  and  they  or  their  fathers  being  come  to  live 
'  there  as  a  people  perfecuted  in  Holland,  not  much  above 
'  threefcore  years  ago,  made  anfwer  to  the  duke,  "  the)''  v/cre 
•'  not  willing  to  perfecute  others  for  conlcience-fake,  who 
*'  had  looked  upon  perfecution  on  that  account  in  their 
■'  G\;'n  cafe  as  antichriftian,"  &c.     But  after  that,  the  peo^ 

T  T  a 


332  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  [1684 

'  pie  of  God,  in  fcorn  called   Quakers,  did  write  to  thee, 

*  from  Frederick (ladt ;  and   fince   that  time  they  have  had 

*  their  liberty,  and  their  meetings  peaceable,  to  ferve  and 
'  worfliip  God  a! mod  thefe  twenty  years  at  Frederickfladt 
'  and  thereabouts,  freely  without  moieftation ;  which  liberty 

*  they  have  acknowledged  as  a  great  favour  and  kindnel's 

*  from  thee. 

'  And  now,  O  duke,  thou  profeHing  chriftianity  from  the 
'  great  and  mighty  name  of  Chrift  |efus,   who  is    King  of 

*  kings  and  Lord  of  lords,  and  the  holy  fcriptures  of  truth 

*  of  the  Old  and  New  Tellament.  do  not  you  ufe  many 
'  women's  words  in  your  fervice  and  vvorfhip  out  of  the  Old 
'  and  New  Tellament  ?  The  apoflle  faith,  "  Let  your 
*'  women  keep  filence  in  the  churches ;"  and  that  he  "  did 
*'■  not  permit  a  woman  to  fpeak.  but  to  be  under  obedience  ; 
*'  and  if  fhe  will  learn  any  thing,  to  afk  her  hufband  at 
"  home ;  for  it  is  a  fhame  for  a  woman  to  fpeak  in  the 
"church."  And  1  Tim.  ii.  11,  12.  "  Women  are  to 
•'  learn  in  filence,  and  not  fufFcred  to  teach,  nor  to  ufurp 
"  authority  over  the  man,  but  to  be  in  filence,"  1  Cor.  xiv. 
'  34.      Here  the  duke  may  fee  what  fort  of  women  were  to 

*  be  in  filence  and  fubjedion,  whom  the  law  commands  to 

*  be  filent,  and  not  to  ulurp  authority  over  the  man,  nor  to 

*  fpeak  in  the  church  ;  thefe  were  unruly  women.  In  the 
'  fame  chapter  he  commands  "  not  to  plait  nor  broider  their 
"  hair,  nor  to  wear  gold,  pearls,  or  coflly  array."  Thefe 
'  things  were  forbidden  by  the  apoflle,  and  women  that 
'  wear  fuch  things  are  to  learn  in  filence  and  to  be  fubjeft, 

*  and  not  to  ufurp  authority  over  the  men  ;  for  it  is  a  fhame 

*  for  fuch  to  fpeak  in  the  church.     But  do  not  fuch  women 

*  as  thefe  that  wear  gold  and  filver,  pearls  and  gaudy  appa- 
'  rel,  or  coilly  arraj',  and  plait  and  broider  their  hair, 
'  fpeak  in  your  church,  when  your  prieft  fets  them  to  fing 

*  pfalms  ?   Don't  they  fpeak  when  they  fmg  pfalms  ?    Con- 

*  iidcr  this,  O  duke  !  Yet  you  fay,  "  Your  women  muft 
"  keep  filence  in  the  church,  and  miuft  not  fpeak  in  the 
"  church  ;'•  but  when  they  fing  pfalms  in  your  churches  are 
'  they  lilent  ?  Though  the  apoflle  forbids  fuch  women  as 
'  before-mentioned  to  fpeak  in  the  church,  yet  in  another 

*  place  he  encourages  the  good  or  holy  women  to  be  teach- 

*  ers  of  good  things.  Tit.  ii.  3.  4.  The  apoflle  alfo  faid, 
"  I  intreat  thee,  true  ycke-fclluw,  help  thofe  women  which 
''  laboured  with  me  in  thcgofpcl,  and  v»'ith  other  my  fellow- 
"  labourers,  whole  names  arQ  written  in  the  book  of  life,"' 


1684]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  •     333 

*  Here   he  owns  thefe  holy  women,  and  encourages  them 

*  which  laboured  with  him  in  the  gofpel,  and  did  not  for- 

*  bid  them,   Phil.  iv.   2,  3.   He  likewife  commends  Phoebe 

*  unto  the  church  of  the  Romans,  calls  her  a  "  fervant  un- 
*'  to  the    church  of  Cenchrea,"  fends  his  epiflle   by  her  to 

*  the  Romans  from  Corinth,  and  delires  the  church  at  Rome 
'  to  '■'■  receive  her  in  the  Lord,  as  becometh  faints;"  and  to 

*  allift  her,  "  in  whatfoever  bufmefs  Ihe  had  need  of;  for 
*'  (he  had  been  a  fuccourer  of  many,  and  of  him  alfo  :"  And 

*  he  faid,  "  Greet  Prifciila  and  Aquila,  my  helpers  in 
"  Chrifl  Jefus,  who  have  for  my  life  laid  down  their  necks ; 
"  unto  whom  not  only  I  give  thanks,  but  alfo  all  the 
"  churches  of  the  Gentiles.".  Now  here  the  duke  may  fee, 
'  theie  were  good  holy  women,   whom  the  apoflle  did  not 

*  forbid  fpeaking,  Rom.  xvi.  1,  2,  3,  4.  but  commended  them. 
'  And  Prifciila  and  Aquila  "  inflrufted  and  expounded 
*•  unto  Apollos  the  way  of  God  more  perfectly,"  Acts  xviii. 

*  26.  So  here  Prifciila  was  an  inflru6lor  as  well  as  Aquila, 
'  which  holy  women  the  apoflle  doth  not  forbid.  Neither 
'  did  he  forbid  Philip's  four  daughters,   who  were  virgins, 

*  to  prophefy.      Women  might  pray  and  prophefy  in  the 

*  church,  1  Cor.  xi.  5.  The  apollles  fliewed  to  the  Jews 
'  the  fulfilling  of  Joel's  prophecy  :  "  That  in  the  laft  days 
*'  God  would  pour  out  of  his  Spirit  upon  all  flefh,  and 
"  their  fons  and  daughters,  fervants  and  handmaids,  fhould 
*'  prophefy  with  the  Spirit  of  God."  So  the  apoflle  en- 
'  courages  daughters  and  handmaids  to  prophefy,  as  well  as 
'  fons;  and  if  they  do  prophefy,  they  muft  fpeak  to  the 
'  church  or  people,    Joel  ii.   28.  A6ls  xvii.  18.     Did  not 

*  Miriam  the  prophetefs  fmg  unto  the  Lord,  and  all  the 
'  women  with  her,  when  the  Lord  had  delivered  the  chiU 
'  dren  of  Ifrael  from  Pharaoh  ?  Did  not  fhe  praife  the 
'  Lord,  and  prophefy  in  the  congregation  of  the  children 
'  of  Ifrael  ?  Was  not  this  in  the  church  ?  Exod.  xv. 
^21.  Mofes  and  Aaron  did  not  forbid  her  prophefying  or 
'  fpeaking;  but  Mofcs  faid,  "  Would  God  all  the  Lord's 
'•'  people  were  prophets!"  And  the  Lord's  people  are  wo^ 
'  men  as  well  as  men.  Deborah  was  a  judge  and  a  pro- 
'  phetefs ;  and  do  not  you  make  ufe  of  Deborah's  and  Mi- 
'  riain's  words  in  your  fervice  and  worfhip  ?  See  Jud.  v.  1. 
Mo  31.  Deborah's  large  fpeech  or  fong.  Barak  did  not 
'  forbid  her,  nor  none  of  the  jewifh  priefts.      Did  not  fhe 

*  make  this  fpeech  or  fong  in  the  congregation  or  chiu-cli  uf 

*  Ifrael  ?    In  the  book  of  Ruth  there  arc  good  fpecclics  of 


334  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1684 

'  thofe  good  women,  which  were  not  forbidden.  Hannah 
'  prayed  in  the  temple  before  Eh,  and  the  Lord  anfwered 
'  her  prayer.  See  what  a  fpeech  Hannah  makes,  and  a 
'  praifing  of  God  before  Eh  the  high  prieft,  who  did  not 
'  forbid  her,  1  Sam.  ii.  1.  to  10.  Jofiah  the  king  fent  his 
'  pried,  with  feveral  others,  to  alk  counfel  of  Huldah  the 
'  prophetcfs,  who  dwelt  at  Jerufalem  in  the  college,  2  King. 

*  xxii.  14.  2  Chron.  xxxiv.  22.  So  here  the  king  and  his 
'  prieils  did  not  defpife  the  counfel  of  this  prophetefs  ;  and 
'  Ihe  prophefied  to  the  congregation  of  Ifrael,  as  may  be 
'  feen  in  theic  chapters.  In  Luke  i.  41.  to  55.  fee  what  a 
'  godly  fpeech  Elizabeth  made  to  Mary,  and  what  a  large 
'  godly  fpeech  Mary  made  alfo.  Mary  faid,  "  that  the 
*'  Lord  did  regard  the  low  eftate  of  his  handmaid,"  &c. 
'  And  don't  you  make  ufe  in  your  wordiip  and  fervice  of 

*  Mary's  and  Elizabeth's  words  from  Luke  ii.  41.  to  55.  in 
'  your  churches,  and  yet  forbid  women's  fper.king  in  your 
'  churches,  and  but  to  be  in  filence  ?  Yet  all  forts  of  wo- 
'  men  fpeak  in   your   churches   when    they  fing,    and   fay 

*  Amen-      In  Luke  ii.   there  was  Anna  the  prophetefs,   a 

*  widow,  of  about  fourfcore  and  four  years,  who  departed 

*  not  from  the  temple,  but  ferved  God   with  fafling  and 

*  prayer  night  and  day.  Did  not  fhe  confefs  Chrifl  Jefus 
'  m  the  temple,  and  give  thanks  to  the  Lord,  "  and  fpeak 
'•  of  Chriil  to  all  that  looked  for  redemption  in  Jerui^dem  ?" 
'  Luke  ii.  36,  37,  38.  So  fuch  holy  women  were  not  for- 
'  bidden  to  fpeak  in  the  church,  neither  in  the  law  nor  gof- 
'  pel.  Was  it  not  Mary  Magdalen  and  other  women  that 
'  firfl  preached  Chrift's  refurrection  to  the  apoflies  ?      The 

*  woman  indeed  (namely  Eve)  was  lirfl  in  tranfgreffion ;  (o 
'  they  were  women  that  firll  preached  the  refurreclion  of 
'  Chrifl  Jefus;  for  Chrifl  laid  to  Mary,  &c.  "  Go  to  my 
"  brethren  and  u\y  unto  them,  I  afcend  unto  my  Father 
"  and  to  your  Father,  and  to  my  God  and  to  your  God,'* 

*  John  XX.  17.  And  Luke  xxiv.  10.  It  was  Mary  Mag- 
'  dalcn,  Jolianna,  and  Mary  the  mother  of  James,  and  other 
'  v.orncn  with  them,  who  told  the  apoflles  "  Chrifl  was 
■•'  riien  from  the  dead;  and  their  words  and  thefe  women's 
"  words  were  as  idle  tales  to  the  apoflles,  and  they  believed 
'•  them  not,"  ib.  ii.  Ver.  22.  "  Certain  women  alfo  of  our 
"  company  made  us  aflonifaed,"  they  faid.  So  here  it  may 
'.  be  feeu  that  the  women's  preaching  the  refurre6lion  of 
'  Chrifl  did  afloniOi  the  apoflles.  Chrifl  fent  thefe  women 
••  ;3  preach  his  rcfurredion  ;  fo  it  is  no  fliame  for  fuch  wo- 


1684]  GEORGE    FOX'3    JOURNAL.  335 

'  men  to  preach  Chrift  Jefus,  neither  are  they  to  be  filenf- 
'  when  Chrift  fends  them.  The  apoftle  lays,  -^  Every 
"  tongue  fhall  confefs  to  God,"  Rom.  xiv.  11,  and  "  Every 
"  tongue  Ihall  confefs  that  Jefus  Chrift  is  Lord,  to  the  glo- 
"  ry  of  God  the  Father,"  Phihp,  ii.  11.  So  here  it  is  clear 
'  that  women  muft  confefs  Chrift  as  well  as  men,  if  every 
'  tongue  muft  confefs.  And  the  apoftle  faith,  "  There's 
"  neither  male  nor  female,  for  ye  are  all  one  in  Chrift 
"  Jefus,"  Gal.  iii.  28. 

'  And  whereas  it  is  faid,  "  women  muft  af[c  their  huf- 
*'  bands  at  home,"  &c.  the  duke  knows  very  well,  virgins 
'  have  no  hufbands,  nor  widows  ;  for  Anna,  the  prophetefs, 
'  was  a  widow  ;  and  if  Chrift  be  the  hufband,  men  muft  alk 
'  counfel  of  him  at  home,  as  well  as  women,  before  they 
'  teach.      And  fet  the  cafe  that  a  Turk's  wife  fliould  be  a 

*  Chriftian,  or  a  Papift's  wife  fliould  be  a  Lutheran,  or  a 
'  Calvinift,  muft  they  afk  and  learn  of  their  huft^ands  aE 

*  home  before  they  confefs  Chrift  Jefus  in  the  congregation 
'  of  the  Lord  ?  Their  counfel  will  be  to  them  to  turn 
'  Turks  or  Papifts. 

'  I  intreat  the  duke  to  conftder  thefe  things.  I  intreat 
'  him  to  mind  God's  grace  and  truth  in  his  heart,  that  is 
'  come  by  Jefus  Chrift,  that  by  his  Spirit  of  grace  and  truth 
'  he  may  come  to  ferve  and  worfliip  God  in  his  Spirit  and 
'  truth  ]   fo  that  he  may  ferve  the  living  eternal   God  that 

*  made  him,  in  his  generation,  and  have  his  peace  in  Chrift 

*  that  the  world  cannot  take  away.      And    I   do  defire  his 

*  good,  peace,  and  profperity  in  this  world,  and  his  eternal 
'  comfort  and  happinefs  in  the  world  that  is   everlafting, 

*  Amen. 

*  G.   F/ 
•  London,  the  26th  of  the 
'  8th  month,  1684.' 

Befides  the  foregoing,  I  wrote  alfo  epiftlcs  to  friends; 
one  of  which  the  following  is  a  copy  ot : 

'  Friends  and  brethren  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift, 
'  TN  whom  you  have  life,  peace,  and  falvation  ;  walk  in 
'  X  him  who  is  your  heavenly  Rock  and  Foundation,  that 
'  ftands  fure,  who  hath  all  povver  in  heaven  and  earth  given 
'  unto  him.  So  his  power  is  over  all.  Let  your  faith  Rand 
'  in  his  power,  which  is  over  all  from  evcrJafting  to  ever- 
*lafting,  over  the  devil  and  his   power;  that  in  the  holy 


336  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1684 

'  heavenly  wifdom  of  God  ye  may  be  preferved  and  kept  to 
'  God's  glory,  out  of  all  fnaies  and  temptations  ;  that  God's 
'  wifdom  may  be  juilified  of  all  his  children  in  this  day  of 
'  his  power,  and  they  ail  may  be  faithful,  ferving  and  wor- 
'  fhipping  God  in  fpnit  and  truth,  and  valiant  for  it  upon 

*  the  earth.  For,  as  the  apoftle  faith,  "  They  that  believe 
"  are  entered  into  their  reft,  and  have  ceafed  from  their  own 
"  works,  as  God  did  from  his."  Now  this  reft  is  an  eternal 
'  reft  in  Chrift,  the  eternal  Son  of  God,  in  whom  every  true 

*  believer  hath  everlafting  life  in  Chrift  Jefus,  their  reft  and 

*  everlafting  day.  For  Chrift  the  reft  bruifeth  the  ferpent's 
'  head,  and  through  death  deftroyeth  death,  and  the  devil, 
'  the  power  of  death,  and  his  works.  He  is  the  eternal  reft, 
'  that  giveth  eternal  life  to  his  ftieep.      Chrift  falfilleth  the 

*  prophets,  and  all  the  figures,  fhadows,  and  ceremonies, 
'  as  in  the  Old  Teftament ;  and  all  the  promifes  are  yea 
'  and  amen  in  Chrift,  who  was  the  eternal  reft  to  all  true 
'  believers  in  the  apoftles  days,  and  ever  fmce,  and  is  fo 
'  now.  Chrift  is  the  beginning  and  the  ending,  the  firft 
'  and  laft,  afcended  above  all  principalities,  powers,  thrones, 
'  and   dominions,    that  he  might   fill  all   things.      For  by 

*  "  Jefus  Chrift  all  things  were  made  and  created,  whc- 
*'  ther  they  be  things  in  heaven  or  things  in  the  earth  ;"  and 
'  he  is  the  Eternal  Reft.  They  that  believe  are  entered  in- 
'  to  Chrift,  their  Eternal  Reft,  in  whom  they  have  eternal 

*  life,  and   peace  with   God.     Wherefore   I   fay   again,    in 

*  him  who  is  your  Reft  live  and  abide ;  for  in  him  ye  are 
'  happy,  and  his  blelhngs  will  reft  upon  you.  God  Al- 
'  mighty  keep  and  preferve  you  all,  his  true  believers,  in 
'  Chrift  your  Reft  and  Peace  this  day.     Amen. 

*  G.  F.' 
*  London,   the  18th  of  the 
'  12th  month,  1684-5.' 

About  a  month  after  I  got  a  little  out  of  London,  vifit- 
ing  friends  at  South-ftreet,  Ford-green,  and  Enfield,  where 
I  had  meetings.  Afterwards  I  went  to  Waltham-abbey, 
and  was  at  a  meeting  there  on  a  firft-day ;  which  was  very 
large  and  peaceable.  Then  returning  through  Enfield,  and 
about  EdinotUon-fidc,  I  came  back  to  London  in  the  third 
month,  to  advifc  with  and  aftift  friends  in  laying  their  fuf- 
ferings  before  the  parliament  then  fitting ;  and  v/e  drew  up 
a  fliort  account  of  our  fufferings,  which  we  caufed  to  be 
prir.tcd  and  fprcad  ainongft  the  parliament-men. 


1685]  GEORGE    FOX»is    JOURNAL.  537 

The  yearly  meeting  coming  on,  I  was  much  concerned 
for  friends  that  came  up  to  it  out  of  the  country,  left  they 
fhould  meet  with  any  trouble  or  difturbance  in  their  paftage 
up  or  down ;  and  the  rather,  becaufe  about  that  time  a 
great  buftle  arofe  in  the  nation  upon  the  duke  of  Mon- 
mouth's landing  in  the  Weft.  But  the  Lord,  according  to 
his  wonted  goodnefs,  was  gracioufty  pleafed  to  preferve 
friends  in  fafety,  and  gave  us  a  bleffed  opportunity  to  meet 
together  in  peace  and  quietnefs,  and  accompanied  our  meet- 
ing with  his  living,  refreftiing  prcfence  :  blefled  for  ever  be 
his  holy  name  ! 

Confidering  the  hurries  that  were  in  the  nation,  it  came 
upon  me  at  the  clofe  of  this  meeting  to  write  a  few  lines  to 
friends,  '  to  caution  all  to  keep  out  of  the  fnirit  of  the 
'  world,  in  which  tiouble  is,  and  to  dwell  in  the  peaceable 
'  truth  ;'  as  followeth  : 

'  Dear  friends  and  brethren, 
'  T  l^THOM  the  Lord  hath  called  and  chofen  in  Chrift 

*  ^  ^  Jefus,  your  Life  and  Salvation,  in  whom  ye  have 
'  reft  and  peace  with  God ;  the  Lord  by  his  mighty  power, 
'  which  is  over  all,  hath  preferved  and  fupported  you  to 
'  this  day,  to  be  a  peculiar  holy  people  to  himfelf,  lb  that 
'  by  his  eternal  Spirit  and  power  ye  might  be  all  kept  out 

*  of  the  world;  for  in  the  world  is  trouble.      In  this  great 

*  day  of  the  Lord  God  Almighty,  he  is  (baking  the  heavens 
'  and  the  earth  of  outward  profeffions,  their  elements  are  in 

*  a  heat,  their  fun  and  their  moon  are  darkened,  the  ftars 
'  falling,  and  the  mountains  and  hills  ftiaking  and  tottering, 
'  as  it  was  among  the  jews  in  the  day  of  Chrift's  appearing. 
'  Therefore,  dear  friends  and  brethren,  dwell  m  the  Seed, 
'  Chrift  Jefus,  the  Rock  and   Foundation,  that  cannot  be 

*  fhaken  ;  that  ye  may  fee  with  the  light  and  Spirit  of  Chrift, 
^  that  ye  are  as  fixed  ftars  in  the  firmament  of  God's  power; 
'  and  in  this  his  power  and  light  you'll  fee  over  all  the  wan- 
'  dering  ftars,  clouds  without  water,  and  trees  without  iruit. 
*■  That  which  may  be  fhaken  will  be  fhaken,  as  will  all  that 
'  are  wandered  from  the  firmament  of  God's  power. 

'  Dear  friends  and  brethren,  you  that  are  redeemed  from 
'  the  death  and  fall  of  Adam,  by  Chrift  the  fecond  Adam, 
'  in  him  ve  have  life,  reft,  and  peace  ;  for  Chrift  laith,  "  In 
'•'  me  ye  ftiall  have  peace,  but  in  the  world  trouble."  And 
'  the  apoftle  faith,  "  They  tl:at  believe  are  entered  into 
*'  their  Reft,"  namely  Chnft,  who  hath  overcome  the  wo.*-idj 

Vol..   II.  '  u   •« 


33*  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [16^5 

'  bralfcth  the  ferpent's  head,  deflroys  the  devil  and  his 
'  works,  and  fulfils  the  types,  figures,  and  fhadows  of  the 

*  Old  Teftament,  and  the  prophets.  In  whom  the  pro- 
'  mifes  are  Yea  and  Amen;  who  is  the  Firft  and  Laft, 
'  Beginning  and  Ending,  the  Eternal  Reft.  So  keep  and 
'  walk  in  Chrift,  your  Reft,  every  one  that  have  received 
'  him. 

'  Dear  friends  and  brethren,  whatever  buftlings  and  trou- 
'  ble,  tumults  or  outrages,  quarrels  and  ftrife,  arife  in  the 
'  world,  keep  out  of  them  all ;  concern  not  yourfelves  with 
'  them ;  but  keep  in  the  Lord's  power  and  peaceable  truth, 

*  that  is  over  all  fuch  things ;  in  which  power  ye  feek  the 

*  peace  and  good  of  all  men.      Live  in  the  love  which  God 

*  hath  ftied  abroad  in  your  hearts  through  Chrift  Jefus ;  in 
'  which  love  nothing  is  able  to  feparate  you  from  God  and 

*  Chrift,  neither  outward  fufferings,  perfecutions,  nor  any 
'  outward  thing  that  is  below  and  without ;  nor  to  hinder 
'  or  break  your  heavenly  fellowftiip  in  the  light,  gofpel,  and 
'  fpirit  of  Chrift,  nor  your  holy  communion  in  the  Holy 
'  Ghoft,  that  proceeds  from  the  Father  and  the  Son,  which 
'  leads  you  into  all  truth.  In  this  Holy  Ghoft,  in  which 
'  is  your  holy  communion,  that  proceeds  from  the  Father 
'  and  the  Son,  you  have  fellowfliip  with  the  Father  and  the 
'  Son,  and  one  with  another.  This  is  it  which  links  and 
'  joms  Chrift's  church  or  body  together  to  him  the  heaven- 
'  ]y  and  fpiritual  head,  and  in  unity  in  his  Spirit,  which  is- 
'  the  bond  <A  peace  to  all  his  church  and  livmg  members, 
'  in  whom  they  have  eternal  reft  and  p«ace  in  Chrift,  and 
'  with  God  everlaftjng,  who  is  to  be  bielled  and  praifed  for 
^  ever.   Amen ! 

'  Dear  friends,  forfake  not  the  affembling  of  yourfelves 
'  together,  who  are  gathered  in  the  name  of  Jefus,  your 
'  prophet,  whom  God  has  raifed  up  in  the  New  Teftament, 
'  to  be  heard  in  all  things;  who  opens  to  you,  and  no  man 

*  can  ftiut,  who  ftiuts  and  no  man  can  open ;   He  is  your 

*  prieft,  made  higher  than  the  heavens  by  the  power  of  an 

*  endlels  life;  by  him  you  are  made  a  royal  priefthood,  to 
'  off"er  up  to  God  fpiritual  facrifice ;  He  is  the  bifhop  of 
'  your  fouls,  to  ovcrfee  you,  that  you  do  not  go  aftray  from 

*  God ;    He  is  the  good  ftiepherd    that  hath  laid  down  his 

*  life  for  his  fheep,    and  they    hear  bis    voice  and    follow 

*  him,   and  he  gives  to  them  eternal  life. 

'  Dear  Iriends  and  brethren,  abide  in  Chrift  the  vine, 
**  that  ye  may  bring  forth  fruit  to  the  Glory  of  God.      As 


1685]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  339 

*  every  one  hath  received  Chrift,   walk  in  him,  who  is  not 

*  of  the  world  that  lies  in  wickednefs ;   fo  that  ye  may  be 

*  preferved  out  of  the  vain   fafhions   and  cuftoms   of  the 

*  w^orld  which  fatisfy  the  lull  of  the  eye;  the  lull  of  the 

*  flefh,  and  the  pride  of  life,  which  are  not  of  the  Father, 
'  but  of  the  world  that  paffes  away.  Whoever  joins  to  that 
'  which  is  not  of  the  Father,   or  encourages  it,   draws  the 

*  mind  from   God  the   Father  and  the   Lord  Jefus  Chrift. 

*  Therefore  let  Chrift  rule  in  your  hearts,  that  your  minds, 
'  fouls,  and  fpirits  may  be  kept  out  of  the  vanities  of  the 

*  world  in  their  words,  ways,  and  aclions,  that  ye  may  be  a 

*  peculiar  people,  zealous  of  good  works,  ferving  the  Lord 

*  through   [efus  Chrift,    to  the   praife  and  glory  of  God ; 

*  that  by  the  Word  of  his  grace  your  words  may  be  gra- 
'  cious,  and  in  your  lives  and  converfations  ye  may  fhew 
'  forth  righteoufnefs,  holinefs,  and  godlinefs,  that  God  Al- 

*  mighty  ma)'  be  glorified  in  you  all,  and  through  you  all, 
^  who  is  above  all,  blefled  and  praifed  for  ever,  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  11th  of  the 
'  4th  month,  1685.' 

I  wrote  feveral  other  letters  to  friends,  in  divers  foreign 
countries,  from  whom  I  had  received  letters  about  the  afFairs 
of  truth.  Which  when  I  had  difpatched,  I  got  a  little  way 
out  of  town,  being  much  fpent  with  the  heat  of  the  weather, 
throngs  in  meetings,  and  continual  bufinefs.  I  went  at 
firft  to  South-ftreet,  where  I  abode  fome  days.  And  a 
great  fenfe  entered  me  of  the  growth  and  increafe  of  pride, 
vanity,  and  excefs  in  apparel,  and  that  not  only  amongft 
the  people  of  the  world,  but  too  much  alfo  in  fome  that 
came  among  us,  and  feemed  to  make  profeffion  of  the  truth. 
In  the  fenfe  I  had  of  the  evil  thereof,  it  came  upon  me  to 
give  forth  the  following,  as  a  reproof  and  check  thereunto. 

'  The  apoftle  Peter  faith  (in   1  Pet.  iii.)  of  the  women's 

*  adorning ;  "  Let  it  not  be  (mark,  let  it  not  be  :  this  is  a 
*'  pofitive  prohibition)  that  outward  adorning  of  plaiting  the 
"  hair,  and  of  wearing  of  gold,  or  of  putting  on  of  apparel ; 
*'  but  let  it  be  the  hidden  man  of  the  heart,  in  that  which  is 
"  not  corruptible,  even  the  ornament  of  a  meek  and  quiet 
"  fpirit,  which  is  In  the  fight  of  God  of  great  price  ;  for  af- 
"  ter  this  manner  in  old  time  the  holy  women  alfo,  who 
"  trufted  in  God,  adorned  themfelves." 

'  Here  ye  may  fee  what  is  the  ornament  of  the  holy  wo- 
u  u  a 


340  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1685 

*  men,  which  was  in  the  Tight  of  God  of  great  price,  which 

*  the  holy  women  who  truiled  in  God  adorned  themfelves 
'  with.  But  the  unholy  women,  tliat  truft  not  in  God, 
'  their  ornament  is  not  a  meek  and  a  quiet  fpirit ;  they  adorn 

*  themfeivcs  with  plaiting  the  hair,  putting  on  of  apparel, 
'  and  wearing  of  gold,  which  is  forbidden  by  the  anoftle  in 
'  his  general  epiftle  to  the  church  of  Chrifl:,  the  true  Chrif- 
^  tians. 

'  The  apoflle  Paul  faith,  1  Tim.  ii.  9,  10.  "  In  like 
"  manner  alfo  that  women  adorn  themfelves  in  modeft  ap- 
*'  parel,  with  Oiamefacednefs  and  fobriety,  not  with  broi- 
"  dered  hair,  or  gold,  or  pearls,  or  coiily  array ;  but, 
*'  which  becometh  women  profefling  godimefs,  with  good 
"  works." 

*  Here  ye  may  fee  what  the  women  were  not  to  adon| 
'  themfelves  with  who  profeiled  godimefs  :  they  were  not  to 

*  adorn  themfelves  with  broidered  hair,  nor  gold,  nor  pearls, 

*  nor  coftly  array  ;  for  this  was  not  looked  upon  to  be  mo^ 

*  deft  apparel  for  holy  women  that  profeiled  godhnefs  and 
"  good  works.  But  this  adorning  or  apparel  is  for  the  im- 
'  modeft,  unfhamefaced,  unfober  women,  that  profefs  not 
'  godiinefs,  neither  follow  thofe  good  works  that  God  com- 

*  mands.     Therefore   it  doth  not  become  men  and  women, 

*  who  profefs  true  Chriftianity  and  godiinefs,  to  be  adorned 
'  widi  gold,  or  chains,  or  pearls,  or  coftly  array,  or  with 
'  broidered  hair  ;  for  thefe  things  are  for  the  luft  of  the  eye, 

*  the  luft  of  the  flefh,  and  pride  of  life,  which  is  not  of  the 
^  Father.    yVli  holy  men  and  women  are  to  mind  that  which 

*  is  more  precious  than  gold  ;  "  being  redeemed  not  witli 
*'  corruptible  things,  as  filver  and  gold,  from  your  vain 
"  converfation,  but  with  the  precious  blood  of  Chrift,  as  a 
*'  lamb  without  blemifti  and  without  fpot.  Therefore  as 
*'  obedient  children  to  God,  not  fafliioning  yourfelves  ac- 
*'  cording  to  your  former  lufts  in  your  ignorance,  but  as  he 
<='  which  hath  called  you  is  holy,  fo  be  ye  holy  in  all  manner 
^' of  converfation,"   1  Pet.   i.    14,  le. 

'  Chrift  faith,  "  The  life  is  more  than  meat,  and  the  bo- 
"  dy  is  more  than  raiment,"   Luke  xii.   23. 

'  I  read  of  a  wiie  moral  philofopher,  who,  meeting  a  wo- 
'  man  with  her  neck  and  breaft  bare,  laid  his  hand  upon  her 
'  and  (aid,  "  Woman,  wilt  thou  fell  this  Ilefti  ?"  and  fhe  re- 
'  plying,  No :  "  'I'hen  pray,"  faid  he,  "  fliut  up  thy  ftiop" 
'  (meaning  her  bare  breafts  and  neck).  So  they  were  look- 
•^  ed  uppn  as  harlot^  that  went  with  their  necks,  Ipreafts.  and 


16853  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  341 

*  backs  bare,  and  not  modeft  people,  even  among  the  mo- 

*  ral  ]}eathens.     Therefore  thole  that  profefs  the  knowledge 

*  of  true  Chriftianity  fhould  be  afhamed  of  fuch  things. 
'  You  may  fee  a  book  written  by  the  very  Papifts,  and  an- 

*  other  by  Richard   Baxter  the    Prefbyterian,   againft  bare 

*  brealls  and  bare  backs.     They  that  were  but  in  an  out- 

*  ward  profcfTioii  did  declare  againft  fuch  things,  therefore 
'  they  who  are  in  the  poffeflion  of  truth  and  true  Chriftiani- 
'  ty  fhould  be  afhamed  of  fuch  things.     Read,  I  pray  you, 

*  the  third  of  Ifaiah.  There  you  may  fee  the  holy  prophet 
-  was  grieved  with  the  foolifh  women's  vain  attire,  and  was 
'  fent  by  the  Lord  to  reprove  them.      Envious,  pcrfecuting 

*  Jezebel,  her  attired  head  and  bravery,  like  a  painted  harlot 
^  out  of  the  truth,  did  not  keep  her  from  the  judgments  of 

*  God,  when  the  Lord  ftirred  up  Jehu  againlt  her.     Doth 

*  not  pride  go,  before  a  fall,   and  a  haughty  mind  before  de- 

*  ftruftion  ?  "  God  refifleth  the  proud,  and  giveth  grace 
"  to  the  humble."  Solomon  faith,  "  The  Lord  wiil  deilroy 
''  the  houfe  of  the  proud,"  Prov.  xv.  25.  "  For  the  day  of 
*'  the  Lord  fhall  be  upon  every  one  that  is  proud  and  iof- 
"  ty,  &c.  and  he  fhall  be  brought  low,"  Ifa.  ii.  12.  and 
^  Mai.  iv.  Therefore  take  heed  of  calling  the  proud  happy  ; 
<  for  "  the  Lord  will  fcatter  the  proud  in  the  imai^ination  of 
*'  their  own  hearts,  and  exalt  them  of  low  degree."  You 
'  may  read  in  the  Revelations  (Chap.  xvii.  4.  and  xviii.  16.) 

*  of  the  falfe  church,  how  fhe  was  outwardly  decked,   bat 

*  full  of  abomination,  and  came  to  a  downial  at  laft.    There- 

*  fore  it  is  good  for  all  that  profefs  the  truth,  to  ufe  this 
'  world  as  not  abufmg  it ;  "  for  the  fafnion  of  this  world 
''  palfeth  away,  but  the  word  of  the  Lord  endurcth  for  ever. 
"'  The  Lord  taketh  pleafure  in  his  people,  he  will  beautify  the 
*'  meek  with  falvation,"  Pfal.  cxlix.  4.  All  that  know  the 
'  truth  as  it  is  in  Jefus,  are  to  be  beautified  and  clothed 
'  with  this  falvation,  which  falvation  is  a  ftrong  wall  or  a 
'  bulwark  againft  that  fpirit  that  would  lead  you  further  in- 
«  to  the  fall  from  God,  into  thofe  things  which  the  fallen 

*  man  and  woman  delight  in,  beautify,  or  adorn  themfelvcs 
'  with.  Therefore,  all  that  profefs  the  truth,  be  circum- 
'  fpett,    fincere,    and    fervent,    following    the    Lord    Jefus 

*  Chrift,  who  is  not  of  this  world;   in   whom  ye   have  life 

*  and  peace  with  God. 

'  G.   F.' 
•■'  South-ftreet,  the  24th  of  the 
"  4th  monthj   1685." 


J42  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1685 

After  fome  weeks  I  returned  to  London.  Among  other 
fervices  that  I  found  there,  one  was  to  aflTift  in  drawing  up 
a  teftimony  to  clear  our  friends  of  being  concerned  in  the 
late  rebelHon  in  the  weft,  and  from  all  plots  againft  the  go- 
vernment ;  which  accordingly  was  done,  and  delivered  to 
the  chief  juitice,  who  was  then  to  go  into  the  weft  with 
commiflion  to  try  prifoners. 

I  tarried  fome  time  in  London,  vifiting  meetings,  and 
labouring  among  friends  in  the  fervice  of  truth.  But  find- 
mg  my  health  much  impaired  for  want  of  frefti  air,  I  went 
to  Charles  Eathurft's  country-houfe  at  Epping-foreft,  where 
I  ftaid  a  few  days.  There  it  came  upon  me  to  write  the 
following  cpiftlc  to  friends  : 

*  Dear  friends,^ 
'  ^T't, /"i^O  are  called,  chofen  and  faithful  in  this  day  of 

*  V  V    trial,  temptations,  and  fuff^erings,  whom  the  Lord 

*  by  his  right  hand  hath  upholden  in  all  your  fufFerings 
'  (and  fome  to  death)  for  the    Lord  and  his  truth's  fake. 

*  Chrift  faith,  "  Be  of  good  cheer,  I  have  overcome  the 
"  world ;  in  me  ye  have  peace,  but  in  the  world  ye  have 
"  trouble."     The  children  of  the  Seed,  which  be  heirs  of 

*  the  kingdom,  know  this  is  true.  And  though  ye  have 
'  trials  by  falfe  brethren,   Judafes,   and  fons   of  perdition, 

*  that  are  got  into  the  temple  of  God,  and  exalted  above  all 
'  that  is  called  God,  whom  the  Lord  will  deftroy  with  the 

*  breath  of  his   mouth  and   the  brightnefs  of  his  coming ; 

*  and  though  ye  be  tried  by  powers  and  principalities,  yet 

*  there  is  nothing  able  to  feparate  you  from  the  love  of  God 

*  which  ye  have  in  Chrift  Jefus.  In  that  love  dwell,  which 
'  bears  all  things,  and  fulfils  the  law  ;  in  which  edify  one 
'  another,  and  be  courteous,  kind,  and  humble  ;  for  to  fuch 

*  God  giveth  hfs  grace  plentifully,  fuch  he  teacheth.     And 

*  pray  in  the  Holy  Ghoft,  which  proceeds  from  the  Father 

*  and  the  Son ;  in  it  keep  your  holy  communion  and  unity 
'  in  the  Spirit,  the  bond  of  peace,  which  is  the  King  of 
'  kings  heavenly  pe^ce.      In  that  you  are  ail  bound  to  good 

*  behaviour,  to  keep  peace  among  yourfelves,  to  feek  the 

*  peace  of  all  men,  and  to  flicw  forth  the  heavenl}^,  gentle, 
'  and  peaceable  wifdom  to  all,  in  righteoufnefs   and  truth, 

*  anfwering   the  good  in  all  people  in  your  lives  and  con- 

*  verfations  (for  the  Lord  is  glorified  in  your  bringing  forth 

*  fpiritual  fruit  :)  that  ye  may  eye  and  behold  the  Lord  in 
'  dl\  yquY  r.ftions,  that  the  blcfhugs  of  the  Lord  ye  may  all 


16853'         GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  343 

'  feel  to  refl  upon  you.     Whether  ye  be  the  Lord's  prifon- 

*  ers  for  his  name  and  truth's   fake,  or  at   hbcrty,   in  all 

*  things  labour  to  be  content,  for  that  is  a  continual  feaft ; 

*  and  let  no  trouble  move  you ;  then  ye  will  be  as  Mount 

*  Sion  that  cannot  be  removed.      In  all  things  exercife  the 

*  word  of  patience,  which  word  will  fantlify  all  things  to 
'  you.      Study  to  be  quiet,   and  do  the  Lord's  bufinefs  that 

*  he  requires  of  you,  and  your  own,  in  truth  and  righteouf- 
'  nefs.  Whatfoever  ye  do,  let  it  be  done  to  the  praife  and 
'  glory  of  God  in  the  name  of  Jefus  Chrift.  All  that  make 
'  God's  people  fuffier,  make  the  feed  fuffer  in  their  own  par- 
'  ticulars,  and  imprifon  the  jufl  there.      Such  will  not  vifit 

*  the  feed  in  themfelves,  but  call  it  into  prifon   in  others, 

*  and  not   vifit  it  in  prifon.     You  may  read  that   Chrifl; 

*  faith,  "  Such  m.ufl  go  into  everlafting  punifhment."  That 
'  is  a  fad  punifhment  and  prifon.  All  fuch  as  are  become 
'  apoflates  and  backfliders,  that  crucify  to  themfelves  Chrifl; 

*  afrefh,  put  him  to   open  fhame,   trample  under  feet  the 

*  blood  of  the  Son  of  God  by  which  they  were  clean  fed, 
'  and  come  to  be  unclean ;  fuch  grieve,  vex,  quench,   and 

*  rebel  againft  the  Spirit  of  God  in  themfelves,  and  then 
'  fuch   rebel    againfl:  them  that  walk  in  the  Spirit  of  God. 

*  Such  are  unfaithful  to  God  and  m.an,  and  are  enemies  to 
'  every  good  work  and  fervice  of  God  ;  but  their  end  will 

*  be  according  to  their  works,  who  are  like  the  earth  that 
'  hath  often  received  rain,  but  brings  forth  briers  and  thorns, 

*  which  are  to  be  rejected,  and  are  for  the  lire.  Therefore, 
'  dear  friends,  in  all  your  fufFcrings  feel  the  Lord's  eternal 
Varm  and  power,  which  hath  fupported  you  to  this  day, 
'  and  will  to  the  end,  as  your  faith  (lands  in  it,  and  as  you 
'  are  fettled  upon  the  rock  and  foundation  Chriil  Jefus,  thafi 

*  cannot  be  removed,  in  whom  ye.  have  life  and  peace  with 

*  God.  The  Lord  God  Almighty,  in  him*,  give  you  do- 
'  minion,  and  preferve  you  all  to  his  glory,  that  in  all 
'  your  fufferings  ye  may  feel  his  prcfence,  and  that,  when 
'  ye  have  finifhed  your  teflimony,  ye  may  receive  the  crown 
'  of  glory  which  God  hath  laid  up  for  thsm  that  fear  and 
'  lerve  him,    Amen. 

'  G.   F.' 
'  The  15th  of  the  7th 
'  month,  1685.' 

Having  fpent  about  a  Wi^ek  in   the  country,    I  returned 
to  London  ;  where  I  continued  about  two  months,  vifjdng^ 


344  GEORGE    FOX's     JOURNAL.  [168^^ 

meetings,  and  labouring  to  get  relief  for  friends  from  their 
fufferings,  which  yet  lay  heavy  upon  them  in  many  parts  of 
the  nation.  1  alfo  wrote  leveral  papers  relating  to  the  fer- 
vice  of  truth,  one  of  which  was  concerning  order  in  the 
church  of  God,  which  fome  that  were  gone  out  of  the  unity 
of  friends  did  much  oppofe.     It  was  as  followeth  : 

'     A    MONG  all  focieties,  or  families,  or  nations  of  peo- 

*  Jr\.  pie  in   the  world,  they  have  among  them  fome  fort 

*  of  order.  There  was  the  order  of  Aaron  in  the  Old  Tef- 
'  tament,  and  there  was  the  order  of  Melchifedeck  before 
'  that,  after  whofe  order  Chrift  Jefus  came,  and  he  did  not 
'  defpife  that  order.     God  is  a  God  of  order  in  his  whole 

*  creation,  and  in  his  church  ;  and  all  believers  in  the'  light, 
'  the  life  in  Chrift,  that  pafs  from  death  to  life,  are  in  the 
'  order  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  power,  light,  life,  and  govern- 
'  ment  of  Chrift  Jefus,  of  the  increafe  whereof  there  is  no 
'  end.  This  is  a  myftery  to  all  thofe  diforderly  people, 
'  who  have  written  and  printed  fo  much  againft  order,  which 

*  the  Lord's  power  and  Spirit  hath  brought  forth  among  his 
'  people.     And  you  that  cry  fo  much  againft  order,  is  it 

*  not   manifeft  that  you  are  gone  into  a  land  of  darknefs, 

*  thick  as  darknefs  itfelf,  and  of  the  fhadow  of  death,  into 
'  diforder,  and  where  the  light  is  as   darknefs  ?   Is  not  this 

*  your  condition  feen  by  all  them  that  live  and  walk  in  the 

*  truth,  and  whofe  converfations  are  according  to  the  gofpel 
'  of  life  and  falvation  ? 

'  The  devil,    Satan,   dragon,   the  firft  and  fecond  beaft, 

*  the  whore  and  falfe  prophets,  and  their  worftiippers  and 
'  followers,  all  arc  out  of  the  truth,  abode  not  in  it,  nor  in 

*  the  order  of  it :  and  the  truth  is  over  them  all.      In  Salem 

*  is  God's  tabernacle;  and  his  tabernacle  is  in  Shiloh  ;  tbcfe 
'  are  far  beyond  the  tabernacles  of  Ham,  Pfalm  Ixxvi.  and 

*  Ixxviii. 

'  All  the  figures  and  ftiadows  were  and  are  comprehend- 
'  ed  in  time ;  but  Chrift  the  fubftance  is  the  beginning  and 
'  the  ending.      And  all  trials,   troubles,   perfecutions,   and 

*  temptations  came  up  in  time  :  but  the  Lord's  power, 
'  which  is  'everlafting,  is  over  all  fuch  things ;   m  which  is 

*  fafety. 

'  The  black  world  of  darknefs  lieth  in  wickednefs.  and 

*  by  their  wifdom  know  not  God  that  made  the  world  and 

*  all  things  therein:  for  the  god  of  the  world  and  prince  of 

*  the  air  ruieth  in  the  hearts  of  all  that  dilbbt^y  the  living 


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*  God  who  made  them.      So  the  god  of  this  wicked  world 

*  hath  blinded  the  eyes  of  the  infidels  or  heathen ;  fo  that 
'  this  wicked  world  by  their  wifdom  doth  not  know  the 
'  living  God. 

'  In  the  Old  Teflament  the  Lord  faid,   "  With  all  thy 
"  offerings  thou  fhalt  offer  fait."  Levit.  ii.  13.     And  Chrift 

*  faith  in  his  new  covenant,  "  Every  one  fhall  be  faked  with 
"  fire,  and  every  facrifice  fhall  be  falted  with  fait.  Salt  is 
*'  good ;  but  if  the  fait  have  loll  its  faltnefs,  wherewith  will 
"  you  feafon  it  ?  Have  fait  in  yourfelves,  and  have  peace 
*'  one  with  another,"  Mark  ix.  48,  49.  50. 

'  We  have  received   the  earnefl  of  the  Spirit,   which  is 

*  the  earneft  of  the  inheritance  that  fadeth  not  away.  For 
'  God  poureth  out  of  his  Spirit  upon  all  flefh.  It  is  God's 
'  Spirit,  which  is  above  our  natural  fpirit  (by  which  alone 
'  we  do  not  know  God  ;)  for  it  is  by  the  Spirit  of  God  that 

*  we  know  the  things  of  God.  And  the  Spirit  of  God'dotli 
'  witnefs  to  our  fouls  and  fpirits,  that  it  felf  is  the  earnefl 
'  of  an  eternal  inheritance.  "  God  opens  his  people's  ears 
"  to  difcipline,  and  commands  that  they  turn  from  iniquity. 
"  If  they  obey  and  ferve  him,  they  fhall  fpend  their  days 
"  in  profperity,  and  their  years  in  pleafure  :  but  if  they 
"  obey  him  not,  they  fhall  perifh  by  the  fword,  and  they 
"  fhall  die  without  knowledge,"  Job  xxxvi.  10,  11,  12.  So 
'  the  difobedient,  that  do  not  turn  from  their  iniquity,  have 

*  not  this  profperity  and  pleafure ;  but  die  without  the 
'  knowledge  of  God;  and  their  ears  are  fhut  to  this  difci- 
'  pline,  which  God  opens  to  his  people. 

'  G.   F.' 

When  I  had  been  about  two  months  in  London,  I  was 
fent  for  to  my  fon  Roufe's  at  Kingfton,  to  vifit  a  daughter 
of  his,  who  at  ihat  time  lay  very  fick ;  but  recovered. 
Whilfl  I  flaid  there,  I  had  feveral  meetings  with  friends  : 
and  returning  by  Hammerfmith,  flaid  the  firR-day  meeting 
there,  which  was  large  and  peaceable.  Having  vifited 
friends  thereabouts.  I  came  back  to  London  again  ;  being 
very  intent  upon  the  bufinefs  of  getting  redrefs  for  fulfering 
friends.  In  this  and  other  fervjces  I  continued  at  London 
till  the  latter  end  of  the  eleventh  month  ;  fave  that  I  went 
to  vifit  an  ancient  friend  at  Bethnal-Grcen,  with  whom  I 
tarried  three  or  four  days.  While  I  was  there,  I  was  much 
exercifed,  in  the  fenfe  of  the  enemy's  working,  to  draw  from 
the  holy  way  of  truth  into  a  falfe   liberty,  and   fo  into  the 

Vol.   1 1.  X  X 


3'4<5  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [168^ 

world's  ways  and  worfhips  again.  And  the  example  of  the 
backfliding  Jews  coming  before  me,  I  was  moved  to  write 
the  following,  as  a  warnmg  to  all  fuch : 

*  'VT'OU  may  fee,    when  the   Jews  rebelled   againft   the 

*  X  good  Spirit  of  God,  which  he  gave  to  inftruft  them, 
'  they  forfook  him  and  his  law,  way,  and  worfhip,  went  a 
'  Vi'horing  after  Balaam's  ways,  and  became  like  the  "  wild 
*'  afs's  colt,  fnuffing  up  the  wind,"  Jer.  ii.  24.      In  Jer.  iii. 

*  fee  how  Judah  played  the  harlot  under  every  green  tree, 

*  and  upon  every  high  mountain ;  therefore  the  Lord  di- 
'  vorced  Judah,  as  he  had  divorced  Ifrael  when  fhe  forfook 

*  his  way,  and  followed  the  ways  of  the  heathen.     Though 

*  the  Lord  had  fed  them  to  the  full,  yet  they  "  forfook  him, 
"  committed  adultery,  and  affembled  themfelves  together  in 
*•'  harlots  houfes,"  Jer.  v.  7.  "  And  with  their  whoredom 
"  they  defiled  the  land,  and  committed  adultery  with  flocks 
"  and  ftones,"  Jer.  iii.  9.  Here  you  may  fee,  when  they 
'  forfook  the  living,  eternal  God,  they  followed  the  reli- 

*  gions  and  worfhips  of  other  nations,  whofe  gods  were 
'  made  of  flocks  and  flones,   which  the  Jews  worfhipped, 

*  and  committed  adultery  withal.  When  they  forfook  the 
'  living  God,   and  his  way  and  worfliip,   they  forfook  the 

*  worfhip  at  Jerufalem  at  the  temple,  and  followed  the  hea- 

*  thens  worfhips  in  the  mountains  and  fields :     So  it  was 

*  called  adultery  and  whoredom,  to  join  with  other  reli- 
'  gions,  and  forfake  God,  Jer.  xiii.  27. 

'  And  now,  if  the  children  of  the  New  Jerufalem  that  is 
'  above  would  forfake  the  worfliip  that  Chrifl  in  his  New 
'  Teflament  fet  up,   (which  is  in  Spirit  and  in  truth)  and 

*  foUoTv  the  worfhip  of  nations,  which  men  have  fet  up ; 
'  will  not  they  commit  adultery  with  them,  in  forfaking 
'  God's  worfhip,  and  Chrifl  the  new  and  living  way  ?' 

'  In  Jer.  xliv.    ye  may  fee  how   the  children  of  Judah 

*  provoked  the  Lord  againfl  them,  by  worfhippin-  the 
'works  of  their  own  hands,  and  following  the  gods  of  the 
'  land  of  Egypt.      In  this  they  committed  adultery,  forfak- 

*  ing  the  living  God,  their  hufband,  and  his  worfhip ;  and 
'  there   ye  may  fee  God's  judgments   pronounced   againfl 

*  them  to  their  deftrndlion.  What  will  become  of  thofe 
'  that  forfake  the  worfliip  in  Spirit  and  truth,  which  Chrifl: 

*  fet  up;  and  worfliip  the  works  of  their  own  hands  in  fpi- 

*  ritual  Egypt,  and  follow  fpiritual  Egypt's  wiiUworfliip, 
'  which  they  invented  ?    May  not  this  be  called  whoredom 


1685I  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  347 

*  in  them  that  forfake  Chrift,  the  new  and  living  way,  his 

*  pure  religion,  and  the  worlhip  that  he  hath  fet  up  ?     And 

*  they  that  forfake  the  Lord's  way  and  his  worfhip,  and  fol- 

*  low  the  world's  ways  and  worfhips,  do  not  they,  whofe 

*  way  they  follow,  become  at  laft  their  enemies  ?   as  in  La- 

*  ment.  1.     See  how  the  Jews  forfook  the  Lord's  way  and 

*  worfhip,  and  doted  on  other  lovers  (the  Affyrians,  &c.) 

*  and  with  all  their  idols  were  defiled ;  and  how  they  retain- 

*  ed  the  whoredoms  brought  from  Egypt,  and  were  polluted 

*  with  the  Babylonians  bed :  read  Ezek.  xxiii.  When  they 
'  forfook  the  Lord,  his  way  and  worfhip,  and  followed  the 

*  way  and  worfhip  of  the  heathen ;  then  it  was  faid,  "  They 
*'  went  a  whoring  after  others,  and  committed  adultery  with 
"  them." 

*  Ye  may  fee  Ezek.  xvi.  the  ftate  of  the  Jews  was  liken- 

*  ed  to  that  of  their  filler  Sodom,    which  had  played  the 

*  harlot  with  the  AlTyrians,  committed  fornication  with  the 

*  Egyptians,  and  increafed  their  whoredoms,   in  following 

*  their  abominable  idols ;    therefore  the  Lord  carried  away 

*  th«  two  tribes,  that  forfook  him,  into  Babylon ;  fee  Ezek. 

*  xvii.  20.     And  they  that  forfake  Chrift,  the  new  and  liv- 

*  ing  Way,  and  the  worfhip  of  God  in   Spirit  and  truth, 

*  which  thrift  fet  up  in  his  New  Teflament,   go  into  cap- 

*  tivity  in  fpiritual  Babylon. 

'  Hofea  it.  you  may  fee  how  the  prophet  difcovers  the 

*  whoredoms   and  idolatry   of  the   Jews   who    forfook   the 

*  Lord,  and  compares  them  to  an  harlot.     And  in  chap.  iii. 

*  ye  may  fee  the  deftruftion  threatened  againft  the  Jews  for 
'  their   impiety  and  idolatry.      In  ch.  ix.  alio  the   diflrefs 

*  and  captivity  of  the  Jews  is  threatened  for  their  fins  and 

*  idolatry ;  and  again  they  are  reproved  and  threatened  for 
'  their  impiety  and  idolatry,  Hof.  x.  This  was  for  forfak- 
'  ing  the  Lord  and  his  way,  and  following  the  ways  of  their 
'  own  inventions,  and  the  ways  of  the  heathen. 

'  Doth  not  Ifaiah  fay,  "  That  the  Lord  would  vifit  Tyre, 
*'  and  that  fhe  fhould  commit  fornication  with  all  the  king- 
*'  doms   upon   the  face  of  the  earth  ?"  therefore  the  Lord 

*  threatened  deftru^ion  upon  her,  ch.  xxiii.      In  ch.  Ivii. 

*  you  may  fee  how  the  Lord  reproved  the  Jews  for  their 
'  whorifh  idolatry,  faying,  "  Upon  an  high  and  lofty  moun- 
"  tain  haft  thou  fet  thy  bed,  even  thither  wenteft  thou  up 
"to  offer  facrifices.  Thou  haft  enlarged  thy  bed,  and 
'■'  made  a  covenant  with  them,  thou  loveft  their  bed  where 
"  thou  faweft  it."     This  was  a  joining  to  the  heathen's  re- 

K    X    2 


348  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1685 

'  ligions,  altars,  and  facrifices,  and  forfaking  the  Lord's  al- 
'  tar  and  lacrificcs,  which  he  commanded  in  the  law  ;  and 
'  therefore  that  was  committing  whoredom  with  the  heathen, 

*  and   a  going  into  their  beds  from  the    Living   God  that 

*  made  them.      And  now  in  the  New  Teflament  God  hav- 

*  ing  "  poured  his  Spirit  upon  all  flefli/'  that  by  it  all 
'  might  corne  to  be  a  "  royal  priefthood,  to  offer  up  fpirit- 
"  ual  facrifices  to  God  by  Jefus  Chrift;"  all  that  err  from 
'  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  rebel  again  ft  it,  are  not  like  to  offer 
'  fpiritual  facrifices  to  God;  the  iacrifice  of  fuch  God  doth 
'  not  accept,  no  more  than  he  did  that  of  the  heathens  or 
'  the  Jews,  who  rebelled  againft  his  good  Spirit  that  he  gave 
'  them  to  inftruft  them. 

'  You  may  fee  in  the  17th,  18th,  and  19th  chapters  of 
'  the  Revelation  the  punifliment  of  the  great  whore,  Baby- 
'  Ion,  the  mother  of  harlots,  and  the  vidory  of  the  Lamb, 
'  and  how  he  calleth  God's  people  out  of  Babylon ;  for 
"  m  her  was  found  tlie  blood  of  the  pi'ophets,  and  of  the 
'=  faints,  and  of  all  that  were  flain  upon  the  earth."  There 
'  ye  may  read  her  judgment  and  downfal.      This  whore  are 

*  they  that  are  whored  from  the  Spirit  of  God,  and  fo  from 
'  God,  from  his  holy  worfhip  in  f'pirit  and  truth,  from  the 
'  pure  undefiied  religion  that  keeps  from  the  fpots  of  the 
'  world,  from  the  new  and  living  way  of  Chrift  Jefus ;  thefe 
'  are  whored  from  the  Spirit  of  God  into  falfe  religions, 
'  ways,  and  worfhips,  and  fo  have  corrupted  the  earth  with 
'  her   abominations.      But  her  judgment  and  downfal  aref 

■'  feen,  over  whom  Chrift  hath  the  vi6lory ;  and  the  marri- 
'  age  of  the  Lamb  is  come,  glory  to  the  Lord  for  ever  f 
'  And  God's  pure  religion,  and  pure  worfhip  in  Spirit  and 
'  truth  Chrift  hath  let  up,  as  it  was  in  the  apoftles  days, 
'  Hallelujah. 

'  G.  F.' 

1  foon  returned  to  London,  but  made  no  long  ftay  there, 
tny  body  not  being  able^to  bear  the  clofencfs  of  the  citv 
long  together.  While  T  was  in  town,  bcfides  the  ufual 
fervices  of  '  vifiting  friends,  and  taking  care  about  their  fuf- 
^  ftring';  to  get  them  ealed,'  I  allifted  the  friends  of  the  city 
in  diftnbdting  certain  (urns  of  money,  which  our  friends  of 
Ireland  had  charilab'y  and  very  liberally  railed,  and  lint 
over  hither  for  the  relief  of  tlieir  brethren  who  fulFered  for  the 
teflimony  of  a  good  confciencc;  Vvhich  monies  were  dift.ri» 


1685]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  349 

buted  amongfl  poor  fufFering  friends  in  the  feveral  counties 
in  proportion,  according  as  we  underilood  their  need. 

Before  I  left  the  city  I  heard  of  a  great  do6lor  lately  come 
from  Poland,  whom  I  invited  to  my  lodging,  and  had  a 
great  deal  of  difcourfe  with  him.  After  I  had  mformed  my- 
felf  by  him  of  fuch  things  as  I  had  a  defire  to  know,  I  wrote 
a  letter  to  the  king  of  Poland  on  behalf  of  friends  at  Dant- 
zick.  who  had  long  been  under  grievous  fufFerings.  A 
copy  whereof  follows : 

'  To  John  the  third,  king  of  Poland,  great  duke  of  Li- 
'  thuania,  Ruffia,  and  PrufTia,  defender  of  the  city  of 
'  Dantzick,  &c. 

'  Concerning  the  innocent  and  afHicted  people  in  fcorn 
'  called  Quakers,  who  are  now  fed  with  bread  and  wa- 
'  ter  in  Bridewell  of  the  aforefaid  city,  under  clofe  con- 
'  finement,  where  their  friends,  wives,  and  children  are 
*  hardly  fufFered  to  come  to  fee  them. 

*  Oh  king  ! 
'  'TpHE  magidrates  of  the  city  of  Dantzick  fay  it  is  thy 
'    JL  order  and  command  that  thefe  innocent  and  afflifted 

*  people  fhould  fuiFcr  fuch  opprelhon.      Nov/  this  punifh- 

*  ment  is  inflicted  upon  them  only  becaufi  they  come  toge- 
'  ther  in  the  name  of  Jefus  Chrili,  their  Redeemer  and  Sa- 

*  viour,  who  died  for  their  fins,  and  is  nlen  from  the  dead 

*  for  their  juftification,  who  is  their  prophet,  whom  God 
'  hath  raifed  up  like  unto  Mofes  ;  whom  they  ought  to  hear 
'  in  all  things  in  this  day  of  the  gofpel  and  new  covenant; 
'  who  went  aflray  like  fcattered  fiieep,  but  now  are  returned 
'  to  the  Chief  Shepherd  and  Bifhop  of  their  Souls,  1  Pet. 
'  ii.  25.  "  Who  has  given  his  life  for  his  fheep,  and  they 
"  hear  his  voice  and  follow  him  ;"•  who  kads  them  into  his 
'•  paftures  of  life,"  John  x. 

'  Now,  O  king  !  I  underftand  thou  openly  profelfefl; 
'  Chriftianity,  and  the  great  and  mighty  name  of  Jefus 
'  Chiift,  who  is  King  of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords,  to  whom 
'  is  given  all  power  in  heaven  and  earth,  who  rules  all  na- 
'  tions  with  a  rod  of  iron.  Therefore,  O  king,  it  feerns 
'  hard  to  us,  that  any  who  openly  confefs  Chriil  Jefus  (yea 
'  the  magi  Urates  of  Dantzick  do  the  (iune)  fhould  iiir1:61; 
'  thofe  puniihments  upon  an  inn(»cent  and  harmlefs  people, 
'  by  reafon  of  their  tender  conrciences  only,  becaule  they 


J50  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1685 

'  come  together  to  ferve  and  vvorfhip  the  Eternal  God,  who 
'  made  them,  in  Spirit  and  in  truth;  which  vvorfhip  Chrifl 
'  Jefus  has  fet  up  fixteen  hundred  years  ago,  as  we  read  in 

*  John  iv.  23,  24. 

^  I   befeech  the   king   that  he   would  confider,  whether 

*  Chrift  in  the  New  Teftament  ever  gave  fuch  a  command 
'  to  his  apoftles  that  they  fliould  fhut  up  any  in  prifon,  and 
'  feed  them  with  bread  and  water,  who  w^ere  not  conforma- 
'  ble  in  every  particular  to  their  religion,  faith,  and  worfhip  ? 

*  Where  did  the  apoftles  exercife  fuch  things  in  the  true 
'  church  alter  Chrift's  afcenfion  ?  Is  not  this  the  doftrine 
'  of  Chrift  and  the  apoftles,  that  Chrift's  followers  fhould 
*'  love  their  enemies,  and  pray  for  them  that  hate,  perfecute, 
*'  and  defpitefuUy  ufe  them  ?"   Mat.  v. 

'  Is  it  not  a  ftiame  to  Chriftendom  among  the  Turks  and 

*  others,  that  one  Chriftian  fhould  perfecute  another  for  the 
'  do6lrine  of  faith,  worftiip,  and  religion  ?  They  cannot 
'  prove  that  Chrift  ever  gave  them  fuch  a  command,  whom 
'  they  profefs  to  be  their  Lord  and  Mafter.  For  Chrift  fays, 
'  that  his  believers  and  followers  fhould  "  love  one  another;'* 
'  and  by  this  they  fhould  be  known  to  be  his  difciples. 

*  And  did  not  Chrift  reprove  thofe  who  would  have  "  fire 
♦'  to  come  down  from  heaven"  to  deftroy  them  who  would 

*  not  receive  him  ?  Did  not  he  tell  them,  "  they  did  not 
"  know  what  fpirit  they  were  of?"     Have  all  who  have  per- 

*  fecuted  men,  or  taken  away  their  lives  becaufe  they  would 
'  not  receive  their  religion,  known  what  fpirit  they  were  or 

*  are  of?  Is  it  not  good  for  all  to  know  by  the  Spirit  of 
'  Chrift  what  fpirit  they  are  of?  The  apoftle  fays,  Rom. 
'  viii.  9.  "  If  any  man  have  not  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  he  is 
"  none  of  his."  And  2  Cor.  x.  4.  "  The  weapons  of  our 
"  warfare  are  not  carnal,  but  fpiritual,  &c.  We  wreftle  not 
'•'  againft  flcfh  and  blood,  but  againft  fpiritual  wickednefs," 

*  &c.  Thus  we  fee,  the  fight  of  the  firft  Chriftians  and 
'  their  weapons  in  the  days  of  the  apoftles  were  fpiritual. 

*  Would  not  the  king  and  the  magiftrates  of  Dantzick 
'  think  it  contrary  to  their  confciences,  if  they  ftiould  be 
'  forced  by  the  Turk  to  his  religion  ?  Would  it  not  in  like 
'  manner  feem  hard  to  the  magiftrates  of  Dantzick,  and 
'  contrary  to  their  confciences,  if  they  fhould  be  forced  to 
'  the  religion  of  the  king  of  Poland?  or  the  king  of  Poland, 
'  if  he  ftiould  be  compelled  to  the  religion  of  the  magiftrates 
'  of  Dantzick  ?  And  if  they  would  not  be  fubjefl  thereunto^ 
'  that  they  fhould  be  baniihed  from  their  wives  and  families, 


1685J  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  351 

*  and  out  of  their  native  country,  or  otherwii'e  be  fed  with 

*  bread  and  water  under  ftri£t  confinement  ? 

■^  We  befeech  the  king  with  all  Chriftian  humility-, 
'  and  the  magiftrates  of  Dantzick,  that  they  would  order 
'  their  proceedings  in  this  matter  according  to  the  royal  law 
'  of  God,  which  is,  "  to  do  unto  others  as  they  would  have 
"  others  do  unto  them,  and  to  love  their  neighbour  as 
"  themfelves."  For  we  have  this  charity,  that  we  hope  and 
'  believe  the  king  of  Poland  and  his  people,  with  the  ma- 
'  giftrates  of  Dantzick,  own  the  writings  of  the  New  Tefta- 

*  ment  as  well  as  of  the  Old ;  therefore  we  befeech  the  king 
'  and  the  magiftrates  of  Dantzick,  to  take  heed  that  their 
'  work  of  imprifoning  an  innocent  people,  for  nothing  but: 
'  their  meeting  together  in  tendernefs  of  confcience  to  ferve 
'  and  worfhip  God,  their  Creator,  may  not  be  contrary  and 
'  oppofite  to  the  royal  law  of  God,  and  to  the  glorious  and 

*  everlafting  gofpel  of  truth. 

'  We   defire  the  king,   in   Chriftian  love,    earneftly  and 

*  weightily  to  confider  thefe  things,  and  to  give  order  to  fet 
'  the  innocent  prifoners,  our  friends,  called  Quakers,  at  li- 
'  berty  from  their  ftrift  confinement  in  Dantzick,  that  they 

*  may  have  freedom  to  ferve  and  worftiip  the  Living  God 
'  in  Spirit  and  in  truth,  and  go  home  to  their  habitations, 

*  and  follow  their  trades  and  calling,  to  maintain  their  wives, 
'  children  and  families.  And  we  believe  that  the  king,  in 
'  doing  fuch  a  noble,  glorious,  yea  Chriftian  work,  will 
'  not  go  unrewarded  from  the  Great  God  who  made  him, 
'  whom  we  ferve  and  worfhip,  who  has  the  hearts  of  kings, 

*  and  their  lives  and  length  of  days  in  his  hand. 

*  From  him  who  defires  the  king  and  all  his  minifters 
'  may  be  preferved  in  the  fear  of  God,  and  receive 
'  his  word  of  wifdom,  by  which  all  things  were  made 

*  and  created,  that  by  it  he  m.ay  come  to  order  all 

*  things  to  the  glory  of  God,  which  God  has   put 

*  under  his  hand  ;   that  both  he  and  they  may  enjoy 

*  the  comforts  and  blefTuigs  of  the   Lord  in  this  life, 
'  and  in  that  which  is  to  come  life  eternal,   Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  10th  of  the  3d  month, 
'  commonly  called  May,   1684.' 

'POSTSCRIPT. 

'  The  king  may  pleafe  to  confider  that  his  and  all  mcnV- 
'  confciences  are  the  prerogative  of  God.' 


3p  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  1:1685 

After  this  I  went  into  Enfield,  where,  and  in  the  coun- 
try thereabouts  feveral  friends  had  country-houfes,  amongfl; 
whom  I  tarried  foine  time  vifiting  and  being  vifited  by 
friends,  and  having  meetings  with  them.  Several  things 
I  wrote  in  this  time  relating  to  the  fervice  of  truth,  one 
whereof  was  concerning  judging  ;  for  fome,  who  had  de- 
parted from  the  truth,  were  fo  afraid  of  truth's  judgment, 
that  they  made  it  much  of  their  bufmefs  to  cry  out  againft 
iudgmg.  Wherefore  I  wrote  a  paper,  proving  by  the  Icrip- 
tures  of  truth,  that  the  church  of  Chrift  hath  power  and  abi- 
lity to  judge  thofe  that  profcfs  to  be  of  it,  not  only  with 
refpetl  to  outward  things  relating  to  this  world,  but  with 
refped,  to  religious  matters  alfo.      A  copy  of  which  follows  : 

Concerning  Judging. 

"  'T^HE  natural  man  receiveth  not  the  things  of  the  Spi- 
"  A.  rit  of  God,  for  they  are  foolifhnefs  to  him,  neither  can 
"  he  know  them,  becaufe  they  are  fpuitually  difcerned  ;  but 
"  he  that  is  Ipiritual  judgeth  all  things  (mark)  all  things, 
"  yet  he  himfelf  is  judged  of  no  man,"  1  Cor.  ii,  14,  15. 
'  So  the  natural  man  cannot  judge  of  thofe  things  he  re- 
'  ceives  not,  for  they  are  foolilhnels  to  him;  but  he  is  com- 
'  prehended  by  the  fpiritual  man,  and  his  foolilhnels,  and 
'  is  judged,  though  he  cannot  judge  the  fpiritual  man. 

"  Do  not  ye  judge  them  that  are  within  ?"  faith  the  apof- 
'  tie.  This  power  the  church  had  and  hath,  "  therefore 
'•'  put  away  from  amongfl  yourfelves  that  wicked  perfon." 
'  Did  not  this  wicked  perfon,  think  you,  profefs  and  plead 
'  for  liberty  for  his  wickednefs,  and  his  freedom,  as  he  v;as 
'  a  Chriflian,  who  was  looked  upon  as  a  member  of  the 
'  church  ? 

'  The  apoftle  faith,  "  For  I  verily,  as  abfent  in  body,  yet 
"  prefent  ui  Spirit,  have  judged  already,  as  though  I  were 
"  prefent,  concerning  him  that  hath  done  this  wicked  deed," 
'  1  Cor.  V.  3,  12.  Here  the  apoftle  did  judge,  though  afar 
'  off,  and  fet  up  judgment  in  the  church  againft  falfe  liberty, 
'  under  what  pretence  foeverit  was. 

'  And  the  apoftle  iaith,  "  Dare  any  of  you,  having  amat- 
*'  ter  againft  a  brother,  go  to  law  before  the  unjuft  and  not 
"  before  the  faints  ?"  Here  the  faints,  the  church,  are  to 
'  judge  of  things  amongft  themfeives,  and  not  the  unjuft  to 
'  judge  of  tlieir  matters.     "  Do  ye  not  know  the  faints  ftiall 


J685]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  y^^^ 

•'  judge  the  world  ?"     So  the  faints  arc  to  judge  the  unjuft, 

*  atid  not  the  unjnfl:  to  judge  their  matters. 

'  And  farther  the  apoftle  faith,  "  If  the  world  fliall  be 
"judged  by  you  (to  wit,  the  faints)  are  you  unworthy  to 
*'  judge  the  fmaller  matters  amongft  yon  ?" 

'  It  is  clear  that  the  faints  have  a  judgment  given  them 

*  of  Chrift,  by  his  power  and  Spirit,  light  and  wifdom,  to 
'judge  the  world,  and  not  to  carry  their  matters  before  the 
'  unjuft,  but  to  judge  of  them  amongft  themfelves;  and  if 
'  they  carry  them  before  the  iinjuft,  they  fhew  their  un- 
'  worthinefs  of  the  faints  judgment. 

'  Again,  "  Know  ye  not,  that  we  fliall  judge  the  angels  ? 
"  (and  angels  are  fpirits)  how  much  more  the  things  which 
*'  pertain  to  this  life  ? 

''  If  ye  then  have  judgment  of  things  pertaining  to  this 
"  life,  fct  them  up  to  judge  who  have  leafl;  efteem  in  the 
"  church,"   1    Cor.  iv.    6.      Here  it  is  clear  the  church  of 

*  Chrift  has  a  judgment  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God, 
'  not  only  to  judge  in  "  things  that  pertain  to  this  life;" 
'  but  alfo  to  judge  of  things  betwixt  brethren,  without  bro- 
'  ther  going  to  law  with  brother  before  unbelievers  ;  which 
'  was  a  fault,  and  to  be  judged,  If  they  did  fo. 

'  But  all  the  faints  have  a  judgment  to  judge  angels  that 
'  kept  not  their  habitations,  and  the  world,  jude  "judged 
"  the  angels  that  kept  not  their  habitations,  their  firfl:  ftate," 

*  Did  not  he  judge  in  divine  matters  here  ?     He  judged  the 

*  ftate  of  Cain,  Balaam,  and  Core,  and  fuch  Ciiriftians  as 
'  were  got  into  th^ir  fteps,  and  were  gone  as  far  as  they, 
'  though  they  profciTed  themtcives  Chriftians  ?  Here  again 
'  he  judged  in  divine  matters,  and  of  their  dates  and  beings, 
'  who  ftood  in  the  divine  principle,  and  \Aio  were  fallen 
'  from  it. 

'  The  apoftle  faith,  "  Try  the  fpirits,  and  believe  not 
"  every  fpirit,"  1  John  4.  Here  again  was  a  judgment  in 
'divine  matters;  and  he  judged  fuch  as  Vv-ent  out  from 
'  them,  which  whilft  they  were  with  them  they  had  fight 
'  of  things  and  openings,"  but  when  they  went  from  them, 
'  they  went  from  the  anointing ;  therefore  he  exhorts  the 
'  fiiints  to  keep  to  the  anointing.  Such  as  went  from  them 
'  that  had  the  anointing,  came  to  be  the  feduccrs  and  falie 
'  prophets  that  went  into  the  world. 

'  John  had  a  judgment  to  try  facriSces,  and  di/linguifli- 
'  ed  Cain's  from   Abel's,  and  by  the  Spirit  of  God  knew 

*  which  God  acccDted,  and  which  he  did  not  accept,  1  John 

Vol.    II.         '  Y  Y 


354  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1685 

•'  iii.  12.  Paul  judged  and  tried  fuch  meffengers  and  apof- 
'  ties,  and  transformers  of  themfelves  like  to  the  apoftles  of 
'  Chriil,  and  would  have  the  church  to  try  fuch,  and  have 

*  the  fame  judgment  as  he  had,   2  Cor.  xi. 

•  Peter  judged  Ananias  and  Sapphira,  and  the  thoughts 
'  of  Simon  Magus,  who  would  have  been  a  worker  of  mira- 
'  cles  for  money.  Was  not  all  this  judgment  in  divine  mat- 
'  ters  ?  The  apoftle  Paul  judged  the  preachers  of  circumci- 
'  {ion  both  in  tKe  Romans  and  Gaiatians.  For  it  was  the  faith 
'  and  liberty  of  thofe  preachers  to  preach  up  circumcifion, 
'  though  it  was  a  wrong  faith.      Did  not  the  apoftle  here 

*  again  judge  in  divine  mattrrs  ? 

'  James  judged  in  matters  of  faith,  and  manifefted  the  liv- 
'  ing  faith  from  the  dead  one.      He  alfo  judged  in  matters  of 

*  religion,  the  vain  religion  from  the  pure  religion,  and  dif- 
'  tinguifhcd  them. 

'  Paul  judged  of  the  "  falfe  brethren  that  would  fpy  out 
'•  the  liberty  of  the  tine,  to  whom  he  would  give  no  place 
"  by  fubjetlion.  no  not  for  an  hour,  that  the  truth  of  thegof- 
*' pel  might  continue  vvith  thefaints,"  Gal.  ii.  Did  not  the 
'  apoftie  here  judge  in  divme  matters  ?  And  he  judged 
'  concerning  the  matters  of  the  gofpel,  when  fome  came  to 
'  pervert  them  with  another  gofpel,  and  faid,  "  The  gofpel 
"  which  I  received  is  not  of  man,  neither  was  I  taught  it, 
"  but  by  the  revelation  of  jefus  Chrift,"  Gal.  i.  12.  So 
'  here  was  a  judgment  to  dillinguifh  the  gofpel  of  Chrifl 
'  from  all  other  gofpels  which  were  accurfed,  which  after 
'  man  are  received  of  man,  and  taught  of  man,  and  not  by 
'  the  revelation  of  Jefus  Chrift,  Gal.  i.  And  he  had  judg- 
'  ment  to  know,  '•  Who  made  the  gofpel  chargeable,  and 
"  who  kept  it  without  charge." 

'  He  let  up  a  judgment  in  the  church,  that  the  believers 
'  fhould  not  be  unequally  yoked,  and  to  fee  when  men  had 
'  a  communion  in  the  light,  and  when  they  had  it  in  dark- 
'  nefs,  when  with  Chrift;  and  when  with  Baal,  with  the 
'  believer  and  unbeliever,  with  the  temple  of  God  and  with 
'  IdoJs,  as  in  2  Cor.  6.  Did  he  not  fet  up  a  clear  judg- 
'  ment  here  in  divine  matters  in  the  church  ? 

'  And  the  apoftle  judged  fuch  libertines  through  their 
'  knowled^^e  that  could  fit  at  meat  in  the  idol-temple,  which 

*  caufed  the  weak  brother  to  pcrifli,  through  his  knowledge 

*  and  liberty,  for  whom  Chrift  died.     Thefe,  it  is  like,  did 

*  profcls  it  was  their  faith  and  their  liberty,  yet  did  not  keep 


1685]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOUHNAL.  355 

'  in  the  unity  of  the  true  faith,  but  went  aflray  to  deriroy 

*  it,    1  Cor.  viii. 

*  Peter  gives  judgment  upon  the  angels  that  finned  and 

*  were  cafl  down  into  hell,  of  the  ftate  of  the  old  world,  and 

*  of  Sodom,  and  the  ftate  of  the  falfe  prophets  then  amongft 
'  them,  that  could  fpeak  great  (Welling  words  of  vanity,  and 
'  whilft  they  promifed  them  liberty  v/ere  themfelves  the  fer- 

*  vants  of  corruption.  Had  not  Peter  here  a  judgment  in 
'  divine  matters  ?  Thefe  were  fuch,  whofe  work  was  to 
'  bring  into  bondage,  being  like  the  dog  and  fow  that  were 

*  wafhed ;  which  fhews  that  they  had  been  wafhed.  but  were 
'  turned  into  the  mire  again.  The  apoftle  Paul  had  a  judg- 
'  ment  upon  fuch  with  their  fair  words  and  men's  wifdom, 
'  that  deceived  the  hearts  of  the  fimple,  and  upon  fuch  as 
*'  ferved  not  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  but  their  own  bellies, 
*'  and  were  enemies  to  the  crofs  of  Chrid."    He  had  a  judg- 

*  ment  and  difcerning  who  lived  in  the  crofs  of  Chrift,  and 

*  -who  did  not,  and  exhorted  all  to  live  in  the  crofs  of  Chrift. 

*  the  righteous  power  of  God,  that  flew  all  deceit  and  the 
'  deeds  of  the  old  man  ;  agreeable  to  Ch rift's  words,  "  He- 
"  that  will  be  ray  difciple,  muft  take  up  his  crofs,  and  fol- 
"  low  me."  Was  not  here  a  judgment  again  in  divine 
'  matters,  of  fuch  as  walked  in  the  divine  power,  and  fuch 
'  as  did  not  ? 

'  Chrift  fets  up  a  judgment  in  his  feven  churches,  and 
*=  commends  them  that  did  keep  in  his  judgment,  and  had 
^  tried  them  which  faid,  '•  They  were  apoftles,"  who  might 
•■  pretend  they  were  fent  of  God  and  Chrift,  and  were  not; 
'  but  the   Church  of  Chrift  had  found  them  liars.      Chrifb 

*  commended  this  judgment  of  the  church  of  Ephefus,  be- 
'  caufe  they  had  "  not  borne  with  them  that  were  evil,  but 
"  had  tried  thofe  falfe  apoftles ;"  and  Chrift  commends  this 
'  church,  for  that  they  had  "  hated  the  deeds  of  the  Nico- 
"  laitans,  which  he  alfo  hated ;"  and  had  not  thefe  Nicoiai- 

*  tans  fprung  from  Nicholas,  one  of  the  deacons  ?  and  were 

*  not  thofe  become  a  feQ  of  Chriftians  ?  Thou;^!!  they 
'  might  talk  and  preach  of  Chnft,  yet  Chnft  hated  their 
'  dodrine. 

'  Chrift  faith  to  the  Church  of  Smyrna,  "  I  know  the 
*'  blafphemy  of  them  which  fay  they  are  Jews,  and  are  not : 
•'  but  are  of  the  fynagogne  of  Satan.  So  the  Church  is  to 
'  have  a  judgment  upon  thefe  blafphemers,  and  are  to  dif- 
'  tinguifli  the  Jews  in  the  Spirit  from  fuch  as  arc  not,  buS 
'  of  the  fynagogue  of  Satan. 

Y   Y   3 


^^6  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNx\L.  [1685 

'  The  Church  in  Pergamos  Chrift  had  a  "  few  things 
*=  againll,  bccauie,"  laid  he,  "  thou  hall  there  them  that 
"  hold  the  doctrines  of  Balaam,  &c.  And  alfo  them  that 
"  hold  th'i  doclrinc  of  the  Nicolaitans,  which  I  hate." 
'  Thefe  that  held  the  doftrine  of  Balaam,  and  the  doftrine 
'  of  the  Nicolaitans,   were  got  into  the  church,  and  might 

*  look  upon  themfelves  to  he  high  Chiiftians,  and  take  great 

*  liberty  to  go  into  Balaam's  and  Nicholas's  doctrine,  which 
'  was  hated  by  Chrift ;   but  the  church  was  to  keep  a  fpnit- 

*  ual  and  divine  judgment  upon  the  heads  of  all  thefe. 

'  To  the  church  of  Thyatna,  faith  Chnll,  '^  I  have  a  few 
'•  thin  OS  aoainfl  thee,  becaufe  thou  fufPereft  the  woman  Te- 
"  zebel  to  teach,  which  feduces  my  people,"  &c.  Here 
'  was  a  fulFcring  which  fhould  have  been  a  judgment  by 

*  Chrift's  Spirit  upon  that  Jezebel  which  was  erred  from 
'  his  Spirit,  and  fo  from  Chrift.  Such  as  thefe  were  high 
'  preachers.      Is  not  the  church  to  beware  of  fuffering  fuch 

*  now,  left  ftie  fiiould  come  under  the  reproof  of  Chrift  for 

*  not  palling  judgment  againft  the  falfe  teacher  and  feducer  ? 

'  The  church  of  Sardis  "  had  a  name  to  live,  but  was 
"  dead,  and  her  works  were  not  found  perfect  before  God." 
'  There  is  a  judgment  to  be  fet  up  in  the  church,  to  judge 
'  all  imperfeft  works,  and  fuch  as  would  have  a  name,  but 
'  not  the  nature ;  a  name  to  live  yet  are  dead.     The  living 

*  of  every  member  of  the  true  church  muft  be  in  Chrift  their 
'  life.    Thefe  living  members  live  to  his  name.    This  church 

*  had  a  few  names,  "  who  had  not  defiled  their  garments, 
*'  that  did  walk  in  white  ;"  but  fuch  as  have  a  name  to  live 

*  but  are  dead,  whilft  they  are  in  a  dead  ftate  cannot  walk 

*  in  white,  nor  judge  in  divine  matters.  "  Behold,"  faid 
'  Chrift,   '•  I  will  make  them  of  the  fynayoi^ue  of  Sat 


&^o' 


an, 


'■  which  fay  they  are  jews,  but  are  not,  but  do  lie;  behold, 

■  I  will  make  them  to  come  and  to  worftiip  before  my  feet." 

'  And  to  the  church  of  Laodicea,  that  was  "  neither  hot 

'■  nor  cold,  but  lukewarm ;  I  would  thou  wert  either  hot  or 

'  cold  :    I  will  rpcw  thee  out  of  my  mouth,    becaufe  thou 

'■  faidft  thou  waft  rich,  and  wanted  nothing ;"  when  they 

were    '•  wntched,    miferable,    poor,    blind,    and    naked." 

This  was   for  want  of  living  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of 

Chrift.      Thele  could  talk  of  high  experiences  and  great 

enjoyments,    but    were   naked,    miferable,   and   blind;    fo 

lived  not  m  tijc  power,  Spirit,  light,  and  righteoufnefs  of 

Cl'uift,   by  which  they  might  be  clothed,    and   have   the 

eternal  riches.     So  the  church  of  Chrift  had  a  fpiritual 


16B5]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  357 

*  judgment  given  to  them  that  are  faithful  in  his  power  and 

*  Spirit  and  light,  to  judge  of  temporal  things  and  the  things 

*  of  this  life,  and  to  judge  of  eternal  and  divine  things  and 
'  flutes,  and  of  angels  and  wicked  men,  and  fuch  as  go  from 
'  truth,  and  of  the  Rates  of  eleftion  and  reprobation,  yea 

*  and  of  the  devils  who  are  out  of  truth ;  thele  being  in 
'  Chrift   Jefus   who  is  the  Firfi;  and  Laft,  from  whom  they 

*  have  the  eternal  judgment,  to  judge  eternal,  fpiritual,  and 

*  divine  things ;  and  m  this  word  of  power  and  wiidom,  by 
'  which  all  things  were  made  and  are  upheld,  to  order  all 
'  things    to    God's   glory,    and   to   judge    of  all   things   in 

*  righteoufnefs. 

'  The  apollle  judged,  and  fet  up  a  judgment  in  the 
'church,  of  gifts,  of  prophecies,  of  myfteries,  of  faith,  and 
'  of  giving  the  body   to  be   burned,  and   of  giving  goods 

*  to  the  poor,  and  of  fpeaking  with  tongues  of  men  and 
'  angels;  that  yet,  if  they  had  not  love,  all  this  was  nothing, 
'  but  as  a  foundmg  brafs  and  tinkling  cymbal.  Therefore 
'  they  are  to  be  tried  by  the  fruits  of  the  good  Spirit,  which 

*  is  love.  The  apollle  not  only  judged  himfelf  in  divine 
'  matters,  but  fet  up  a  judgment  in  the  church  in  thofe  fpi- 

*  rirual  and  divine  matters. 

'  The  apoflle  James  judges  of  fountains  and  of  fig-trees, 
'  of  the  wifdom  below,  and  of  the  wifdom  froin  above,  and 
'  the  fruits  of  both,  James  iii.  And  Paul  judged  in  divine 
'  matters,  when  he  laid,  "  The  Spirit  fpoke  exprefsly,  that 
*'  in  the  latter  times  fome  Ihould  depart  from  the  faith/' 
'  1  Tim.  iv.     He  judged  in  divine  matters,  v»?hen  he  judged 

*  all  thofe  teachers  that  were  high-minded,  and  had  got  the 
'  form  of  godlinefs,  but  denied  the  power,  and  termed  them 

*  like  Jannes  and  Jambres,  which  withllood  Mofes  coming 
'  out  of  outward  Egypt,  as  thefe  with  their  form  of  godii- 

*  nefs  oppofe  Chrift  and  his  power  that  brings  them  out  of 
'  fpiritual  Egypt  now.  Was  not  he  a  judge  here  in  divine 
'  matters,  who  judged  fuch  as  had  gotten  the  form  of  godli- 
'  nefs  but  denied  the  divine  power  ?  2  Tim.  iii. 

'  When  the  apoftle  Paul  flud,  "  The  prieflhood  of  Aaron 
"  was  changed,  and  the  law  was  changed,  and  the  com- 
•'  mandment  difannulled,  that  gave  them  their  tithes,"  did 
'  not  he  judge  in  divine  and  fpiritual  matters  ?  and  was  not 

*  the  law  fpiritual,  which  ferved  till  the  Seed  came  ? 

'  Did  not  the  apoftle  judge  in  divine  and  fpiritual  inat- 
'  ters  in  the  fixth  of  tJic  Hebrews,  where  he  faith,  '•  Let  us 
*'  go  on  to  perfc6l:oDj   not  laying  again  the  foundation  of 


jjS  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1685 

'  repentance  from  dead  works,  and  of  ftiith  towards  God, 
'  and  of  the  doftrine  of  baptifms,  and  of  laying  on  ot  hands, 
'  and  of  the  refurreftion  of  the  dead,  and  of  eternal  judg- 
'  ment :  and  this  will  we  do,  if  God  permit,"  &c.  and  does 
not  the  apoftle  judge  here,   "  That  it  was  impoffible  for 
'  thofe  who  were  once  enlightened,  and  tailed  of  the  hea- 
'  venly  gift,  and  were  partakers  of  the  holy  Ghofl,  and  had 
'  tailed  of  the  good  word  of  God,  and  of  the  power  of  the 
'  world  to  come,  if  they  fhall  fall  away,  to  renew  them  again 
'  unto  repentance,  feeing  they  crucify  to  themfelves  the  Son 
'  of  God  afrefh,  and  put  him  to  open  fhame  ?"    Heb.  vi. 
Were  not  thefe  fpiritual,  eternal,  and  divine  matters  and 
Hates  that  the  apoftle  judged  of?  and  have  not  the  faints 
the  fame  judgment  given  unto  them  in  the  fame  fpirit  ? 
Have  not  the  apoftles  and  the  church  a  fpiritual  judgment 
to  judge   of  prophets,  myfteries,    faith,    apoftles,    angels, 
world,  and  the  devil  ?    And  is  not  this  judgment  given 
them  of  God  in  divine  matters,  befides  the  judgment  giv- 
en them  in  matters  pertaining  unto  this  life  ? 
'  And  had  not  they  judgment  to  difcern  the  true  gofpel 
from  the  falfe  ?   and  all  fuch  as  had  a  profeflion  of  the 
form,  and  did  not  live  in  the  power  ?  and  fuch  as  fpoke  of 
the  things  of  God,  in  the  words  that  man's  wifdom  did 
teach  ?  which  things  of  God  were  not  to  be  fpoken  in  the 
vi^ifdom  which  man's  words  taught;  but  in  the  word  which 
the   Holy  Ghoft  taught.     Therefore  did  not  the  apoftle 
exhort  to  know  the  power,  and  that  their  faith  might  ftand 
in  the  power  of  God  ?   that  the  kingdom  of  God  ftands 
not  in  word,  but  in  power  ? 

'  Had  not  all  the  prophets  a  judgment  to  judge  in  divine 
matters  ?  as  Jeremiah,  when  he  judged  the  prophets ;  and 
Ezekiel  judged  all  fuch  as  came  with  a  pretence  of  the 
Word  of  the  Lord,  ufing  their  tongues,  and  faying, 
'  Thus  faith  the  Lord ;  when  the  Lord  never  fpoke  unto 
'  them."  Jeremiah  xxiii.  Ezekiel  xiii.  and  many  other 
places  might  be  iriftanced.  Did  he  not  judge  Hananiah, 
who  prophcficd  filfely  ?  and  did  not  this  Hananiah  pre- 
tend to  fpcak  the  word  of  the  Lord  to  the  priefts  and 
people  ?    Jeremiah  xxviii. 

'  Did  not  Ifaiah  judge  in  divine  matters,  when  he  j-.^dged 
the  watchmen  and  the  fhcpherds  ?  Ifa.  Ivi.  Did  not  Mi- 
cah  judge  m  divine  and  fpiritual  matters,  when  he  faid  he 
'  was  full  of  the  power  by  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord,  and  of 
'■  judgment  ?"    Did  not  he  judge  of  priefts,  prophets,  and 


i6S6']  GE6RGE    FOX*s    JOURNAL.  359 

*  judges,  though  they  would  lean  upon  the  Lord,  and  fay, 

*  Is  not  the  Lord  amongft  us,  and  no  evil  can  come  unto 

*  us ;  yet  did  not  he  let  them  fee  their  ftates  and  conditions, 

*  and  "  divided  the  precious  from  the  vile  ?'  Mich,  iii.    And 

*  lb  the  reft  of  the  prophets.  You  may  fee  they  judged  for 
'  God  in  his  divine  matters,  "  v;ho  ferved  hirn,  and  who 
"  ferved  him  not ;  who  lived  in  truth,  and  who  not ;"  and 
'  likewife  the  apoftles.  And  this  divine,  fpiritual,  heavenly 
'judgment  was  given  of  God  to  his  holy  men  and  women. 

'  They  that  judge  in  God's  divine  matters,  muft  live  in 

*  his  divine  Spirit,  power,  and  light  now,  as  they  did  then  ; 

*  which  fpiritual  and  divine  judgment  Chnft  has  given  to 
'  his  Church,  the  living  ftones,  and  living  members,  that 
-  make  up  his  fpiritual  houfehold  ;  to  try  jews,  apoftles, 
'  and  prophets;  to  try  faiths  and  religions,  trees  and  fruits, 
'  fhepherds  and  teachers,  and  to  try  fpirits.  So  the  living 
'  members  have  a  living  divme  judgment  in  the  church  of 
'  Chrift,  which  he  is  the  Head  of,  the  judge  of  all. 

'  Nay,  the  church  has  a  power  given  them,  which  is  far- 
•'  ther  than  a  judgment :  for  what  they  "  bind  on  earth,  is 
''  bound  in  heaven  by  the  power  of  God ;"  and  what  they 
"  loofe  on  earth  is  loofed  in  heaven  by  the  power  of  God." 
'  This  power  has  Chnft  given  to  his  living  members,  the 
'  church. 

•'  G.   F.  to  friends.' 
'  The  20th  of  the  12th 
'  month,   1685-6/ 

I  returned  to  London  in  the  firft  month  1686,  and  fet 
myfelf  with  all  diligence  to  look  after  friends  fuffcrings, 
which  we  had  now  fome  hopes  of  getting  relict  trom.  The 
feflions  came  on  in  the  fecond  month  at  Hicks'*  Hall, 
where  many  friends  had  appeals  to  be  tried ;  with  whom  I 
was  from  day  to  day  to  advife,  and  fee  that  no  opportunity 
was  flipt,  nor  advantage  loft  :  and  they  generally  fucceeded 
well.  Soon  after,  the  king  was  pleafed,  upon  our  often 
laying  our  fuff"erings  before  him,   '  To  give   order  lor  the 

*  relealing  all  that  were  imprifoned  for  confcience-fake  ; 
'  which  were  in  his  power  to  difcharge.'  Whereby  the  pri- 
fon-doors  were  opened,  and  many  hundreds  of  friends,  fome 
of  whom  had  been  long  in  prifon,  were  fet  at  liberty.  Some 
of  them,  who  had  many  years  been  rellrained  in  bonds, 
came  up  to  the  yearly  meeting,  which  was  in  the  thud 
month  this  year.     This  caufed  great  joy  to  friends,  tu  ice 


s5o  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1686 

our  ancient,  faithful  brethren  again  at  liberty  in  the  Lord's 
work,  after  their  long  confinement.  And  indeed  a  precious 
meeting  we  had ;  the  refrefliing  prefence  of  the  Lord  ap- 
pearing plentifully  with  us  and  amongft  us.  After  the 
meeting  I  was  moved  to  write  a  few  hnes,  to  be  fent  amongft 
fiiends;  the  tenor  whereof  was  thus  : 

'  Dear  friends, 
'  iy  TY  love  is  to  you  t-M  in  the  holy  Seed  Chrifl  Jefus, 
'  IVi  that  bruifes  the  fcrpent's  head,  and  deflroys  the  de- 
'  vil  and  his  works;  and  who  hath  all  power  in  heaven  and 
'  earth  given  to  him.  Let  every  one's  faith  ftand  in  him, 
'  and  in  his  power,  who  is  the  author  and  fini flier  of  your 
'  faith.  To  you  who  have  been  partakers  of  his  power,  and 
'  are  fenfible  of  it  in  this  day  of  his  power,  which  is  over 

*  darknefs  and  its  power;  by  whofe  power  the  hearts  of  the 
'  king  and  rulers  have  been  opened  ;  and  by  which  your  out- 
'  ward  prifon-doors  have  been  fet  open  for  your  liberty. 
'  My  defires  are,  that  all  may  be  preferved  in  humility  and 
'  ihankfulnefs,  in  the  fenfe  of  the  mercies  of  the  Lord  ;  and 
'  live  in  the  peaceable  truth  that  is  over  all  :   that  ye  may 

*  anfwer  God's  grace,  and  his  light  and  Spirit  in  all  ;  in  a 
'  righteous,  godly  life  and  converfation.  Let  none  be  lift- 
'  cd  up  by  their  outward  liberty,  neither  let  any  be  caft 
'  down  by  fufFering  for  Chrift's  fake;  but  all  live  in  the 
'  feed  (which  is  as  wheat)  which  is  not  fhaken  nor  blown 
'  away  by  the  winds  and  ftorms,  as  the  chaff  is.  Which 
'  Seed  of  life  none  below  can  make  higher  or  lower  :  for  the 

*  children  of  the  Seed  are  the  children  of  the  everlafling, 
'  unchauCTcable  kingdom  of  Chrifl:  and  God.  In  Chrift 
'  |efus,  whom  God  hath  given  you  for  a  fan6luary,  God 
'  Almighty  keep  you,  in  whom  ye  have  life  everlafling, 
'  and  wifdom  from  above,  which  is  pure,  peaceable,  gentle, 
•'  and  ealy  to  be  intrcated,  full  of  mercy  and  good  fruits; 
'  that  all  may  be  exercifed  in  it,  and  may  pra6tife  this  wif- 
'  dom  in  holy  lives  and  converfations  ;  that  this  wifdom 
'  may  be  juliified  of  all    her  children,  and  they  exercifed 

*  and  preferved  in  it  in  this  day  of  the  power  of  Chrift  ;  in 
'  which  all  his  people  are  made  a  willing  people,  to  ferve 
'  and  worftiip  God  in  righteoufnefs  and  holinefs,  in  the  Spi- 
•'  rit  and  truth. 

'  Let  none  abufe  the  power  of  the  Lord,  nor  grieve  his 
'  Spint,  by  which  you  are  fealed  and  kept  to  the  day  of  fal- 
'  vation  and  redemption  ;  but  always  exercife  yourlelves  to 


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'  have  a  "  good  confcience  void  of  offence  towards  God  and 
'•'  towards  all  men  ;"  being  exercif^d  in  holiuefs,  godlinefs, 
'  and  righteoufners,  in  the  truth,  and  in  the  love  of  it. 
'  All  ftudy  to  be  approved  unto  God  in  innccency,  virtue, 
'  fimplicity,  and  faithful nefs,  labouring  and  ftudying  to  be 
'  quiet  in  the  will  of  God.  "  And  whatfoever  ye  do  in 
"  word  or  deed,  do  all  in  the  name  of  the  L.ord  Jefus,  giv- 
"  ing  thanks  to  God  the  Father  by  him:"  That  he,  who 
'  is  over  all,  may  have  the  praife  for  all  his  mercies  and  blef- 
'  fmgs,  with  which  he  hath  refreflied  his  people,  and  by 
'  his  eternal  arm  and  power  bath  kept  and  prefen-ed  them 
'  to  this  day.  Glory  to  his  name  over  all  forever,  Amen  i 
'  Chrift  has  called  you  by  his  grace  into  one  body,  to  hmi 
'  the  holy  head ;  therefore  live  in  charity,  and  in  the  love 
'  of  God,  which  is  the  bond  of  perfeftnefs  in  his  body ; 
'  which  love  edifies  the  body  of  Chrifl :  which  body  and 
'  all  its  members  are  knit  together,  and  increafed  with  the 
'  increafe  of  God,  from  whom  they  receive  nourifhrnent. 
'  For  by  one  Spirit  v/e  are  all  baptized  into  one  body,  and 
'  have  been  made  all  to  drink  into  one   Spirit;  in  which. 

*  Spirit  the  body  and  all  its  members  have  fellowfhip  with 
'  Chrifl  the  head,  and  one  with  another.      The  unity  of  this 

*  holy  Spirit  is  the  bond  of  peace  of  ail  the  living  members 

*  of  Chrift  Jefus,  of  which   he  is  the  fpiritual  head,  rock, 

*  and  foundation.      In    the   midft    of  his   church   of  living 

*  members  Chrift  exercifes  his  fpiritual  prophetical  ofEce, 
'  to  open  to  them  the  myfteries  of  his  kingdom.  He  is  a 
'  fpiritual  bifhop  to  vovcrfee  them,  that  they  do  not  go  aftray 
'  from  tlie  living  God  that  made  them  ;  a  fhepherd  tliat 
'  feeds  them  with  bread  and  water  of  lik  from  heaven,  and 
'  none  is  able  to  pluck  his  flieep  out  of  his  hands.      He  is 

*  a  pricft  that  died  for  them,   fantlifieth  them,  and   prefents 

*  them  to  God,  who  rulcth  in  their  hearts  by  the  divme 
'  faith,  which  he  is  the  author  and  finifiier  of.  His  living 
'  members  praife  God  through  Jefus  Chrift,  in  whom  they 
'  have  life  and  falvation,   ivho  reconciles  them  to  God,  that 

*  they  can  lay  they  have  "  peace  with  God  through  Jefus 
"  Chrift  ;■"'  and  fo  praife  God  through  h.im  that  was  dead  and 
'  is  alive,  reigns  over  all,  and  liveth  for  evermore,  bleffed 
•'  for  ever,  Hallelujah,  Amen! 

'  Greet  one  another  with  an  holy  kifs  of  charity.  Love 
'  or  charity  besreth  all  things,  belie.vcth  all  things,  hopeth 
'  all  things,  cndureth  all  things.  It  envieth  not,  vaunteth 
'  not  iticlr.  nor  is  DitfFcd  up.   nor'  doth  it  behave  itfcif  un- 

Voi.    II.  ^  "  /.  /. 


^62  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1686 

'  feemly.  It  rejoices  not  in  iniquity,  but  rejoices  in  the 
'  truth.     Charity  is  not  eafily  provoked,  and  thinks  no  evil, 

*  but  fuflFereth  long  and  is  knid.  Charity  never  faileth.  I 
'  ^-^7'  g^'eet  one  another  with  this  holy  kifs  of  charity,  and 
'  peace  be  with  you  all  that  are  in  Chrifl  Jefus,  your  life 
'  and  falvation. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  The  30th  of  the  3d 
'  month,    1686/ 

I  remained  moil  part  of  this  year  in  London,  fave  that 
fometimes  I  got  to  Bethnal-green  for  a  night  or  two,  fome- 
times  as  far  as  Enfield  and  thereabouts  amongft  friends,  and 
once  or  twice  to  Chifwich,  where  an  ancient  friend  had  fet 
up  a  fchool  for  the  educating  of  friends  children ;  in  all 
which  places  I  found  fervice  for  the  Lord,  At  London  I 
fpent  my  time  amongft  friends,  either  in  publick  meetings, 
as  the  Lord  drew  me,  or  vifiting  fuch  as  were  not  wtU,  and 
in  looking  after  the  fufFerings  of  friends.  For  though  many 
were  releafed  out  of  prifon,  yet  fome  remained  prifoners  ftiii 
for  tithes,  &c.  and  fuffcrings  of  fcveral  forts  lay  heavy  on 
friends  in  many  places.  Yet  inafmuch  as  many  who  had 
been  prifoners  were  now  fet  at  liberty,  I  felt  a  concern  upon 
me  that  none  might  look  too  m.uch  at  man,  but  might  eye 
the  Lord  therein,  from  whom  deliverance  comes.  Where- 
fore I  wrote  an  epiftle  to  friends,  as  folio weth : 

'  Friends, 
'  ^TPHE  Lord  by  his   eternal   power  hath   difpofed   the 
'    A    heart  of  the  king  to  open  the  prifon-doors,  by  which 
•'  about  fifteen  or  fixteen   hundred  are  fet  at  liberty,    and 

*  hath  given  a  check  to  the  informers,  fo  that  in  many 
'  places  our  meetings  are  pretty  quiet.  My  defires  are,  that 
'  both  liberty  and  iufferings  may  be  fanftified  to  his  peo- 
'  pie,  that  friends  may  prize  the  mercies  of  the  Lord  in  all 
'  things  and  to  him  be  thankful,  who  flilleth  the  raging 
'  waves  of  the  fea,  allayeth  the  ftorms  and  tempefts,  and 
'  maketh  a  calm.  Therefore  it  is  good  to  truft  in  the  Lord, 
'  and  caft  your  care  upon  him  who  careth  for  you.  For 
'  when  ye  were  in  gaols  and  prifons  the  Lord  did  by  his. 
'  eternal  arm  and  power  uphold  you,  and  (anclified  them 
'  to  you ;  unto  fome  he  made  them  as  a  lanftuary,  and. 
"  tried  his  people  as  in  a  furnace  of  affliction,  both  in  pri- 
'  ions  and  fpoiling  of  goods.     In  all  this  the  Lord  was  with 


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'  his  people,  and  taught  them  to  know  that  "  the  earth  is 
**  the  Lord's,  and  the  fulnefs  thereof;"  and  that  he  was  in 
'  all  places,  "  who  crowneth  the  year  with  his  goodnei's," 
'  Pfal.  Ixv.  Therefore  let  all  God's  people  be  diligent, 
'  and   careful   to  keep  the  camp  of   God  holy,   pure,  and 

*  clean,  and  to  ferve  God  and  Chrift,  and  one  another  in 
^  the  glorious,  peaceable  gofpcl  of  life  and  falvation ;  which 

*  glory  fhines  over  God's  camp,  and  his  great  Prophet,  Bi- 

*  fliop  and  Shepherd  is  among,  or  in  the  midft  of  them, 

*  exercifmg  his  heavenly  offices  in  them ;  fo  that  you  his 
'  people  may  rejoice  in  Chrift  Jefus,  through  whom  you 
'  have  peace  with  God.  For  he  that  deftroyelh  the  devil 
^  and  his  works,  and  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head,  is  all  God's 
'  peoples  heavenly  foundation  and  rock  to  build  upon  ; 
'  which  was  the  holy  prophets  and  apoflles  rock  in  days 
'  part,  and  is  now  the  rock  of  our  age ;  which  rock,  the 
'  foundation  of  God,  ftandeth  fure.  Upon  this  the  "  Lord 
*'  Godeftablifh  all  his  people,"  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
*  London,  the  25th  of  the 
'  7th  month,   1686.' 

Divers  other  epiftles  and  papers  I  wrote  this  year,  whereof 
t)ne  was  by  way  of  exhortation  to  '  friends  to  keep  in  unity 
'  in  the  truth,  in  which  there  is  no  divifion  nor  feparation  :' 
^hus, 

*  Dear  friends  and  brethren  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift, 

'  TN  whom  ye  have  all  peace  and  life,  in  whom  there  is 
'  A  no  divifion,    fchifm,    rent,    ftrife,   nor   feparation :    for 

*  Chrift  is  not  divided,  and  there  can  be  no  feparation  in 

*  the  truth,  nor  in  the  light,  grace,  fiiith,  and  Holy  Ghoft, 
'  but  unity,  fellowfhip,  and  communion.  For  the  devil  was 
'  the  firft  that  went  out  of  the  truth,  feparated  from  it,  and 

*  tempted  man  and  woman  to  difobey  God,  and  to  go  from 
'  the  truth  into  afalfe  liberty,  to  do  that  which  God  forbad. 
'  So  it  is  the  ferpent  now  that  leads  men  and  women  into 
'  a  falfe  liberty,  even  the  God  of  the  world,  from  which 
'  man  and  woman  muft  be  feparated  by  the  truth,  that 
'  Chrift  the  truth  may  make  them  free,  and  then  they  are 
'  free  indeed.  Then  they  are  to  ftand  faft  in  that  liberty  in 
'  which  Chrift  hath  made  them  free,  and  in  him  there  is  no 
'-  divifion,  fchifm,  rent,  nor  feparation ;   but  peace,  life,  and 

z  z  2 


364  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1686 

*  reconciliation  to  God  and  to  one  another.  So  in  Chrift 
'  male  and  female  are  all  one ;  for  whether  they  be  male  or 
*'  i^maJe,  Jew  or  Gentile,  bond  or  free,  they  are  all  one  ia 

*  Chrift.     And  there  can  be  no  fchifm,  rent,  or  divifion  in 

*  him,   nor  in  the  worfhip  of  God  in  his  holy  Spirit  and 

*  truth,  nor  in  the  pure  and  nndefilcd  religion  that  keeps 

*  from  the  fpots  of  the  world,  nor  in  the  love  of  God  that 

*  beareth  and  endureth  all  things,  nor  in  the  word  of  God's 

*  grace,  for  it  is  pure  and  endureth  for  ever.      Many,  you 

*  fee,  have  loll  the  word  of  patience,  and  the  word  of  wif- 
'  dOiTj.  th;it  is  pure,  peaceable,  gentle,  and  eafy  to  be  in-t 
'  treated.     Then  they  run  into  the  wifdom  that  is  belov/, 

*  that  is  "  eanhlyj  fenfual,  and  deviiifh,"  and  very  uneafy 

*  to  be  intreated.     They  go  from   the   love   of  God   that 

*  beareth  ail  things,  endureth  all  things,  thinks  no  evil,  and 

*  doth  not  behave  itfelf  uJifeemly ;    then  they  cannot  bear, 

*  but  grow  brittle,  are  eafiiy  provoked,   run  into  unfeemly 

*  things,  and  are  in  that,  that  vaunteth  itfelf,  are  puffed  up, 

*  rafli,  heady,  high-minded,  and  fierce,  and  become  as  founds 

*  ing  brafs  or  a  tinkling  cymbal;  but  this  is  contrary  to  the 

*  nature  of  the  love  of  God.  Therefore,  dear  friends  and  bre-r 
'  thren,  dwell  in  the  love  of  God]  for  thofe  who  dwell  in  love 
'  dwell  in  God,  and  God  in  them.  Keep  in  the  word  of  wif^ 
'  dom,  that  is  gentle,  pure,  and  peaceable:  and  in  the  word' 
'  of  patience  that  endureth   and  beareth  all   things  ;   which 

*  word  of  patience  the  devil,  and  the  world,  and  all  his  in- 

*  flruments  can  never  wear  out :   it  will  wear  them  all  out; 

*  for  it  was  befqre  they   were,  and  will  be   Vvhen  they  are 

*  gone,  the  pure,  holy  word  of  God,  by  which  all  God's 

*  children  arc  born  again,  and  feed  on  the  milk  thereof,  and 

*  Jive  and  grow  by  it.      My  dehres  are,  that  ye  may  all  be 

*  of  one  heart,  m.ind,  foul,  and  fpirit  in  Chrift  Jefus,  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 

Soon  after  this,  finding  thcie  apoftates  whom  the  enemy 
had  drawn  into  divifion  and  feparation  from  friends  continu- 
ed their  clamour  and  oppofition  againfl  our  monthly,  quar- 
lerly,  and  yearly  meetings,  it  came  upon  me  to  write  ano^ 
ther  fhort  cpiftie  to  friends  to  put  them  in  mind  of  the  '  evi- 

*  dence  and  feal  they  had  received  in  themfelves  by  the  Spi- 

*  rit  of  the  Lord,  that  thofe  meetings  were  of  the  Lord  and 
'  accepted  by  him,'  that  they  might  not  be  fliaken  by  the  acL 
vcriarics.     I  wrote  as  followeth  ; 


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'  My  dear  friends  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift! 

*  ALL  you  that  are  gathered  in  his  holy  name  knov/  that 
'  Jr\.  your  meetings  for  worfhip,  your  quarterly  meetings, 
'  monthly  meetings,  women's  meetings,  and  yearly  meet- 
'  ings,  are  fet  up  by  the  power  and  Spirit  of  the  Lord  God, 
'  and  witnelFed  by  his  Spirit  and  powersn  your  hearts  :  and 
'  by  the  Spirit  and  power  of  the  Lord  God  they  are  efta- 
'  biifhed  to  you,  and  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  the  Lord 
'  God  you  are  eftablifhed  in  them.     The  Lord   God   hath 

*  with  his  Spirit  fealed  to  you  that  your  meetings  are  of  his 
'  ordering  and  gathering,  and  he  hath  owned  them  by  ho- 

*  nouring  you  with  his  blefled  prefence  in  them ;  and  you 
'  have  had  great  experience  of  his  furnifhing  you  with  wif- 
'  dom,  life,  and  power,  and  heavenly  riches  from  his  trea- 
'  fure  and  fountain,  by  which  many  thanks  and  praifcs 
'  have  been  returned  in  your  meetings  to  his  holy,  glorious 

*  name.  He  hath  fealed  your  meetings  by  his  Spirit  to  you, 
'  and  that  your  gathering  together  hath  been  by  the  Lord, 

*  to   Chrift  his   Son,  and  in   his  name,  and   noc  by    man. 

*  So  the  Lord   hath  the  glory  and   praifc  of  them  and  in 

*  them,  who  hath  upheld  you  and  them  by  the  arm  of  his 
'  power  againft  all  oppofers  and  backfliders  and  their  flan- 
'  derous  books  and  tongues.  For  the  Lord's  power  and 
'  feed  doth  reign  over  them  all,  in  which  he  doth  preferve 
'  his  fons  and  daughters  to  his  glory,  by  his  eternal  arm  and 
<  power,  in  his  work  and  fervice,  as  a  willing  people  in  the 
'  day  of  his  power,  without  being  weary  or  fainting,  but 
'  ftrong  in  the  Lord,  and  valiant  for  his  glorious  name  and 
'  precious  truth,  and  his  pure  religion;  that  ye  may  ferve 
'  the  Lord  in  Chrift  Jefus,  your  rock  and  foundation,  in 
'  your  age  and  generation,  Amen. 

'  G.  f: 

'  London,  the   3d  of  the 

'  11th  month,  1686-7.' 

A  little  after  it  came  upon  me  to  write  fomething  con- 
cerning the  ftate  of  the  church  and  the  tiue  members  there- 
of; as  folio  vveth : 

*  Concerning  the  church  of  Chrift  beint^  clothed  with  tha 

'  iun  and  having  the  moon  under  her  feet. 

'  nPHEY  are  living  members,  living  ftonc^.,  built  up  a 
'    A  fpiritual  houfchold,  the  children  cf  the  proniife,  and 


366  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1686 

'  of  the  feed  and  flefh  of  Chria;  as  the  apoftle  faith,  "  flefli 
"  of  his  flefh,  and  bone  of  his  bone."  They  are  the  good 
'  feed,  the  children  of  the  everlafting  kingdom  written  in 

*  heaven,  who  have  put  on  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrifl.  They 
'  fit  together  in  heavenly  places  in  Chrift,  are  clothed  with 
'  the  Sun  of  righteoufnefs,  Chrift  Jefus,  and  have  the  moon 
'  under   their  feet.    Revel,   xii.      So  all  changeable   things 

*  that  are  in  the  world,  all  changeable  religions,  changeable 
'  worfhips,    changeable  ways,    fellowfhips,    churches,    and 

*  teachers  in  the   world,  are  as  the  moon ;  for  the  moon 

*  changes,    but   the   fun  doth  not  change.       The    Sun  of 

*  righteoufnefs  never  changcth,   or  fets,  nor  goes  down;  but 

*  all  the  ways,  religions,  worfhips,  fellowfhips  of  the  world, 

*  and  the  teachers  thereof,  change  like  the  moon.  But  the 
'  true  church,  which  Chrifl  is  the  head  of,  which  is  in  God 

*  the  Father,  and  is  called  "  the  pillar  and  ground  of  truth," 
'  whole  converfation  is  in  heaven;  this  church  is  clothed 
'  with  the  San,  Chrift  Jefus  her  head,  who  doth  not  change, 
'  and  hath  ail  changeable  things  under  her  feet,      Thefe  are 

*  the  living  members,  born  again  of  the  immortal  feed  by 
'  the  word  of  God,  who  feed  upon  the  immortal  milk,  and 
'  live  and  grow  by  it.  Such  are  the  new  creatures  in  Chrift 
'  Jefus,  who  makes  all  things  new,  and  fees  the  old  things 

*  pafs  away.  His  church,  his  members,  which  are  cloth- 
'  ed  with  the  fun,  their  worfhip  is  in  the  Spirit  and  in  the 
'  truth,  which  doth  not  change,  which  truth  the  devil,  the 

*  foul,  unclean  fpirit,  is   out  of,    and  cannot  get  into  this 

*  worfliip  in  Spirit  and  truth.      Their  religion  is  pure  and 

*  undefilcd  before  God,  that  keeps  from  the  fpots  of  the 
'  world,  and  their  way  is  the  new  and  living   way,   Chrift 

*  Jefus.      So  the  church  of  Chrift,  that  is  clothed  with  the 

*  Sun,  that  hath  the  moon  and  all  changeable  religions  and 
'  ways  under  her  feet,  hath  an  unchangeable  worfhip,  reli- 

*  gion  and  way,  an  unchangeable  rock  and  foundation, 
'  Chrift  Jefus,  an  unchangeable  high  prieft,  and  fo  are 
'  children  of  the  New  Tcilament,  and  in  the  everlafting  co- 
'  venant  of  light  and  life. 

'  All  that  profefs  the  fcriptures  both  of  the  New  and  Old 

*  Tcftament,  and  are  not  in  Chrift  Jefus,  the  apoftle  tells 
'  them  they  are  "  reprobates  if  Chrift  be  not  in  them." 
'  Thcfe   that    are   not   in    Chrift    cannot   be    clothed  with 

*  Chrift,     the    Sun   of   righteoufnefs,     that   never  changes. 

*  They  are  under  the  changeable  moon  in  the  world,  in  the 
'  changeable  things,  the  changeable  religions,  ways,  wor- 


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*  iliips,  teachers,  rocks,  and  foundations.     But  Chrift,  the 

*  Son  of  God  and  Sun  of  righteoufnefs,  doth  not  change  ; 
'  in  whom  his  people  are  gathered,  and  fit  together  in  hea- 

*  venly  places  in  him,  clothed  with  ChriR  Jefus,  the  Sun, 
'  who  is  the  mountain  that  filleth  the  whole  earth  with  his 

*  divine  power  and  light.  So  all  his  people  fee  him  and 
'  feel  him  both  by  fea  and  land.  He  is  in  ail  places  of  the 
'  earth  felt  and  feen  of  all  his.  He  faith  to  the  outward 
'  profelfors,  the  Jews,  "  I  am  from  above,  ye  are  from  be- 
"  low,  ye  are  of  this  world."  So  their  religions,  worthips, 
'  ways,  teachers,  faiths,  beliefs,  and  creeds,  are  made  by 
'  men,  and  are  below,  of  this  world  that  changeth  like  the 
'  moon.  You  may  fee  their  religions,  ways,  worfhips,  and 
'  teachers,  are  all  changeable  like  the  moon ;  but  Chrift,  the 
'  Sun,  with  which  the  church  is  clothed,  doth  not  change, 
'  nor  his  church ;  for  they  are  fpiritually-minded,  and  their 
'  way,  worfhip,  and  religion  is  fpiritual,  from  Chriit,  who 
'  is  from  above  and  not  of  this  world.  Chrill  hath  redeem- 
'  ed  you  from  this  world,  their  changeable  rudiments  and 
'  elements,  and  old  things,  and  their  changeable  teachers, 
'  and  from  their  changeable  faiths  and  beliefs.      For  Chrift 

*  is  the  Author  and  Finifher  of  his  church's  faith,  who  faith, 
"  Believe  in  the  Light,  that  ye  may  become  children  of  the 
"  Light."  And  it  is  given  them  not  only  to  believe,  but 
'  to  fuffer  for  his  name.      So  this  fiith  and  belief  is  above 

*  all  faiths  and  beliefs,  which  change  like  the  moon.     God's 

*  people  are  an  holy  nation,  a  peculiar  people,  a  fpiritual 
'  houfehold,  and  royal  priefthood,  offering  up  fpiritual  fa- 
'  crifice  to  God  by  Jefus  Chrift,  and  are  zealous  of  lighte- 
'  oufnefs,  godly,  good  works,  and  their  zeal  is  for  that  which 
'  is  of  God  againft  the  evil  which  is   not  of  God.      Chrift 

*  took  upon  him  the  feed  of  Abraham,  he  doth  not  lay  the 
'  corrupt  feed  of  the  Gentiles ;  fo  according  to  the  flefh  he 
'  was  of  the  holy  feed  of  Abraham  and  David,  and  hjs  holy 
'  body  and  blood  was  an  offering  and  a  facrifice  for  the  fins 
'  of  the   whole   world,    as  a  lamb  without  blemifh,    whole 

*  flefti  faw  no  corruption.  By  the  one  offering  of  himfelf 
'  in  the  New  Teftament  or  New  Covenant,  he  has  put  an 
'  end  to  all  the  offerings  and  facrifices  amongft  the  Jews  in 
'  the  Old  Teftament.  Chrift,  the  holy  Seed,  was  crucified, 
'  dead,  and  buried  according  to  the  fleih,  and  raifed  again 
'  the  third  day,  and  his  flefh  faw  no  corruptiqn.  Though 
'  he  was  crucified  in  the  flefti,  yet  quickened  again  by  the 
'  Spirit  and  is  alive,   and  liveth  for  everrnor;:,  a:id  hath  all 


j68  GEORGE    FOX'S     JOURNAL.  [i6Sd. 

'  power  in  heaven  and  earth  given  to  him,  and  reigneth  over 
'  all,  and  is  the  One  Mediator  between  God  and  Man,  even 
^  the  Man  ChriR  Jefas.  Chrift  faid,  "  He  gave  his  flefh 
"  for  the  life  of  the  world;"  and  theapoflle  faith,  "  his  flefh 
"  faw  no  corruption;"  fo  that  which  law  no  corruption  he 
'  gave  for  the  life  of  the  corrupt  world  to  bring  them  out  of 
'  corruption.  Chrift  faid  again,  "  He  that  eateth  my  fleftl 
"  and  drinketh  my  blood  hath  eternal  life;  for  my  flefh  is 
"  meat  indeed,  and  my  blood  is  drink  indeed.  And  he 
*•  that  eateth  my  flefh,  and  drinketh  my  blood,  dwelieth  in 
"  me,  and  I  in  him."  He  that  eats  not  his  flefli  and  drinks 
'  not  his  blood,  which  is   the  life  of  the  flefli,    hath  not  eter- 

*  nallife.  As  theapoflle  faith,  "  All  died  in  Adam  ;"  then 
'  all  are  dead.  Now  all  coming  fpiritually  to  eat  the  flefh 
'  of  Chrift,  the  fecond  Adam,  and  drink  his  blood,  his 
'  blood  and  flefh  gives  all  the  dead  in  Adam  life,  and  quick- 
'  ens  them  out  of  their  fins  and  trefpafles  in  which  they 
'  were  dead ;  fo  they  come  to  lit  together  in  the  heavenly 
'  places  in  Chrift  Jefus,  and  are  hving  members  of  the 
'  church  of  Chrift  that  he  is  the  head  of,  and  are  clothed 
'  with  the  Sun  of  rigbteoufnefs,  the  Son  of  God,  that  never 
'  changes,  and  have  the  changeable  moon  under  their  feet, 
'  and  all  changeable  worldly  things,  inventions,  and  works 
'  of  men's  hands.  Thefe  fee  the  people  how  they  change 
'  from  one  worfhip  to  another,  from  one  religion  to  another, 
'  from  one  way  to  another,  and  one  church  to  another,  yet 
'  their  hearts  are  not  changed.  The  letter  of  the  fcripture 
'  is  read  by  the  Chriftians  like  the  Jews,  but  the  myftery  is 
'  hid ;  they  have  the  fheep's  clothing,  the  outfide,  but  are  in- 

*  wardly  ravened  from  the  Spirit,  which  fhould  bring  them 
'  into  the  Lamb's  and  Sheep's  nature.  The  fcripture  faith, 
"  All  the  uncircumcifed  muft  go  down  into  the  pit;"  there- 
'  fore  all  muft  be  circumcifed  with  the  Spiiit  of  God,  which 
'  puts  off  the  body  of  death  and  fins  of  the  flefh,  that  came 

*  into  man  and  woman  by  their  difobediencc  and  tranfgref- 
'  fiiig  God's  commands.  I  fay,  all  muft  be  circumcifed  with 
'  the  Spirit,  which  puts  off  the  body  of  death  and  fins  of 

*  the  flefh,  before  they  come  up  into  Chrift,  their  Reft,  that 
'  never  fell,   and   be  clothed  with  him  the  Sun  of  righte- 

*  oufnefs. 

'  G.   F.' 

Towards  the  latter  end  of  this  year   I   went  to  my  fon 
Roufc's  near  Kingfton.     While  I  was  there  I  wrote  a  paper 


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concerning  the  '  falling  away,'  foretold  by  the  apoftle  Paul, 
2  Their,  ii.  3.  as  folio weth : 

'  'T^HE  apoftle  fcUth  that  there  muft  be  "  a  falling  away'* 

*  X    firfl;  before  the  wicked  one,  and  man  of  fm,  the  fon 

*  of  perdition,   be  revealed,  which  betrayeth  Chrift  within, 

*  as  the  fon  of  perdition  betrayed  Chrift  without ;  and  they 
'  that  betray  Chrift  within  crucify  to  themfelves  Chrift 
'  afrelh,  and  put  him  to  open  fhame.     Before  the  apoftles 

*  dcceafed,  this  man  of  fm  and  fon  of  perdition  was  reveal- 
'  ed  ;  for  they  faw  antichrift  come,  the  falfe  prophets,  falfe 
'  apoftles,  and  deceivers  come,  having  a  form  of  godlinefs, 

*  but  denying  the  power  thereof.  They  faw  the  wolves 
'  drefled  in  the  ftieep's  clothing,  and  fuch  as  went  in  Cain's, 

*  Corah's,  and  Balaam's  v/ay,  and  Jezebel's,  and  the  whore 
"  of  Babylon,  the  whore  of  confufion,  the  mother  of  harlots, 
•'  and  fuch  as  were  enemies  to  the  cro fs  of  Chrift,  that  ferv- 

*  cd  not  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift  but  their  own  bellies.  Thefe 
'  Chrift  faw  fhould  come,  and  faid,  "  If  it  were  poftible 
"  they  fhould  deceive  the  eiefl,"  and  commanded  bis  fol- 
'  lowers  not  to  go  after  them.  The  apoftle  faid,  "  Tuni 
''  away  from  fuch,"  and  Chrift  and  his  apoftles  warned  the 
^  church  of  Chrift  of  fuch.  In  this  day  of  Chrift  and  his 
'  gofpel,  after  the  long  night  of  apoftacy  from  the  light, 
'  grace,  truth,  life,  and   Spirit  of  Chrift  Jefus,  the  fon  of 

*  perdition,  the  wicked  one,  the  man  of  fm  is  revealed  again, 
'  and  the  inwardl}'  ravening  wolves  in  ftieep's  clothing,  and 
'  the  fpirit  of  Cain,  Corah,  Balaam,  Jezebel,  the  antichrifts, 
'  filfe  prophets,  and  falfe  apoftles,  and  fuch  as  are  enemies 
'  to  the  crofs  of  CJirift,  who  ferve  not  the  Lord  Jefus,  bul: 

*  their  own  bellies,   and  crucify  Chrift  to  themfelves,   and 

*  put  him  to  open  fhame.  This  fpirit  have  we  feen  in  this 
'  gofpel-day  of  Chrift;  but  Chrift  will  confume  them  witli 
'  the  Spirit  of  his  m.outh,  and  deft;roy  them  v/ith  the  bright- 

*  nefs  of  his  coming.  But  God's  people,  whom  he  hath 
•'  chofen  unto  falvation  in  Chrift  from  the  beginning, 
'  through  the  fandihcation  of  the  Spirit  and  the  belief  of 
•'  the  truth,  ftand  ftcadfaft  in  Chrift  Jefus,  and  are  thankful 
'  to  God  by  and  through  his  Son,  their  rock  and  falvation/ 

*  their  happinefs,  and  eternal  inheritance. 

'  The  apoftle  faith,  "  Ye  were  as  iheep  going  aftray,  but 
*•■  ar^  now  returned  to  the  Shepherd  and  Bifliop  of  your 
".  Souls."     So  when  people  aie  returned  to  Chrift^  their 

*  Shepherd,  they   know  hii  voice  and   f^olloi/  him,  and  a'» 

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3-70  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  0^^^ 

'  returned  to  the  Bifhop  of  their  Souls ;  then  they  believe 
'  in  him  and  receive  wifdom  and  underftanding  from  him 
'  who  is  from  above,  heavenly  and  fpiritual.  Then  they 
'  aft  like  fpiritual  holy  men  and  women,  and  come  to  be 
'  members  of  the  Church  of  Chrift.  Then  a  fpiritual  care 
'  cometh  upon  the  elders  in  Chrift,  that  all  the  members 
^  walk  in  Chrift,  in  his  light,  grace.  Spirit,  and  truth,  that 
'  they  may   adorn  the  confeffion  and  profeflion  of  Chrift, 

*  and  fee  that  all  walk  in  the  order  of  the  holy  Spirit,  and 
'  the  everlafting  gofpel  of  peace,  life,  and  falvation.     This 

*  order  keeps  oat  of  confufion;  for  the  gofpel  of  peace,  the 

*  power  of  God,  was  before  eonfufion  was.      All  the  heirs 

*  of  the  gofpel  are  heirs  of  its  order,  and  are  in  this  gofpel 
'  which   brings   life  and  immortality  to  light  in  them,  by 

*  which  all  men  and  women  may  fee  their  work  and  ferviee 

*  in  it,  to  look  after  the  poor  widows  and  fatherlefs,  to  fee 

*  that  nothing  be  lacking,  and  that  all  honour  the  Lord 
'  in  their  lives  and  converfations. 

'  When  the  whole  houfe  of  Ifrael  were  in  their  graves 
'  and  fepulchres,  and  were  called  "  the  fcattered,  dry  bones," 
'  yet  they  could  fpeak,  and  fay  "  their  bones  were  dry,  their 
"  hope  was  loft,  or  they  were  without  hope,  and  they  were 
''  cut  off."  They  v/ere  alive  outwardly,  and  could  fpeak 
'  outwardly.  So  that  which  is  called  Chriftendom  may 
'  very  well  be  called  "  the  fcattered  dry  bones,"  and  be  faid 
'  to  be  in  their  graves  and  fepulchres,  dead  from  the  hea- 
'  venly  breath  of  life,    the  Spirit  and  word  of  life,   that  ga- 

*  thereth  to  God.  Though  they  can  fpeak,  and  are  alive 
'  outwardly,  yet  they  remain  in  the  congregations  or 
'  churches  of  the  dead,  that  want  the  virtue  of  life.  For 
'  the  Jews,  whom  God  poured  his  Spirit  upon  and  gave 
'  them  his  law,  when  they  rebelled  againft  the  Spirit  of 
'  God,  and  turned  from  God  and  his  law,  they  came  to  be 
•"  dry  fcattered  bones,  imd  were  turned  into  their  graves  and 
'  fepulchres.  So  Chriftendom  that  is  turned  from  the  grace, 
'•  truth,  and  light  of  Chrift,  and  the  Spirit  that  God  poureth 

*  upon  all  flcfh,  they  are  become  the  fcattered  dry  bones, 
'  are  in  their  graves  and  fepulchres,  and  are  the  congrega- 
'  tions  or  churches  of  the  dead,  though  they  can  fpeak  and 
'  are  alive  outwardly. 

"  Chrift  faith,  "■  I  am  come  that  they  might  have  life,  and 
"  that  they  might  have  it  more  abundantly.  He  gave  his 
'•  flefti  for  the  life  of  the  world."  And  he  faith,  "  I  am  the 
"  rcl'uncdion  and  the  life.     I  am  the  way,  the  truth,  and 


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*'  the  life;   no  man  cometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  me." 

*  Chrift  is  the  quickening  Spirit.     All  being  dead  in  Adam 

*  are  to  be  quickened  and  made  alive  by  Chrift,  the  fecond 
'  Adam.     And  when  they  are  quickened  and  made  alive  by 

*  him,  they  meet  together  in  the  name  of  Jelus  Chrift  their 

*  Saviour,  who  died  for  their  fins  and  is  rilen  for  their  juf- 

*  tification,    and  fo  was  dead   and  is  alive,   and  liveth  for 

*  evermore.      All  whom  he  hath  quickened  and  made  alive 

*  (even  all  the  living)  meet  in  the  name  of  Jefus  who  is 

*  alive,  and  he  their  living  Prophet,   Shepherd,  and  Biftiop 

*  is   in  the  midft  of  them,    and  is  their  living  Rock  and 

*  Foundation,  and  a  living  Mediator  between  them  and  the 

*  living  God.      So  the  living  praife  the  living  God  through 

*  Jefus  Chrift,   through  whom  they  have  peace  with  God. 

*  All  the  living  have  reft  in  Chrift  their  life,    he  is  their 

*  fanftification,  their  righteoufncfs,  their  treafure  of  wifdom, 

*  knowledge,  and  underftanding,  which  is  fpiritual  and  hea- 

*  venly.      He  is  the  fpiritual  tree  and  root,  which  all  the 

*  believers  in  the  light,  the  life  in  Chrift,  that  pafs  from  the 
'  death  in  Adam  to  the  life  in  Chrift,  and  overcome  the 

*  world,  and  are  born  of  God,  are  grafted  into  Chrift,   the 

*  heavenly  tree,  which  beareth  all  the  fpiritual  branches  or 

*  grafts.     Thefe  meet  in  his  name,  are  gathered  in  him,  and 

*  fit  together  in  heavenly  places  in  Chrift  Jefus,  their  Life, 

*  who  hath  quickened  and  made  them  alive.  So  all  the 
'  living  worfliip  the  living  God  in  his  holy  Spirit  and  truth, 
'  in  which  they  live  and  walk.  Into  this  woi-fhip  the  foul, 
'  unclean    fpirit,  the  devil,  cannot  get ;   for  the  holy  Spirit 

*  and  truth  is  over  him,  and  he  is  out  of  it.  This  is  the 
'  ftanding  worftiip  which  Chrift  fet  up  in  his  new  covenant. 

*  And  they  that  are  quickened  by  Chrift  are  the  living 
'  ftones,  living  members,  and  fpiritual  houfchold  and 
'  church,  or  congregation  of  Chrift,  who  is  the  living  head 

*  and  huft)and.     They  that  are  made  alive  by  Chrift  are  a 

*  living  church,  have  a  living  head,  and  are  come  from  the 

*  congregations  or  churches  of  the  dead  in  Adam,   where 

*  death  and  deftruftion  talk  of  God,   and  of  his  prophets 

*  and  apoftles,  in  their  wifdom  that  is  belov/,  earthly,  and 

*  devililh,  in  the  knowledge  that  is  brutifti,  and  in  the  un- 

*  derftanding  that  comes  to  nought.  For  what  they  know 
'  is  natural,  by  their  natural  tongues,  arts,  and  fcienccs,  in 
'  which  they  corrupt  themfelves.     This  is  the  ftate  of  the 

3  A  ^ 


372  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1686 

*  dead  in  Adam;  but  the  quickened,  that  are  made  alive  by 

*  Chrill,  difcern  between  the  living  and  the  dead. 

-  G.  F/ 
*  Kingfton  upon  Thames,  the 
'  12th  month,   1686-7.' 

While  I  was  at  Kingfton,  I  wiofce  another  paper,  ihew- 
ing,  "  That  the  Lord  in  all  ages  called  the  righteous  from 
*'  amongfl  the  wicked,  before  he  deftroyed  them ;"  after  this 
manner  : 

OAH   and  his  family  were  called  into  the  ark,  before 
the  old  ^'/oiid  was  deftroyed  with  the  flood.      And  all 

*  the  faithful  generation,  that  lived  before,  were  taken  away, 

*  and  died  in  the  faitli,  before  that  flood  of  deftruttion  came 

*  upon  the  wicked  old  world. 

'  The   Lord  did  call  Lot  out  of  Sodom,  before  he   did 

*  deftroy  and  con  fume  it,  and  the  wicked  there. 

'  Chrift  faid  ;  "  It  cannot  be,  that  a  prophet  perifii  out 
*'  of  Jerufalem;"  and  he  faid;  "  O  Jerufalem,  Jerufalem, 
*'  which  kiileft  the  prophets,  and  ftonefl;  them  that  are  fenfc 
*'  unto  thee,  how  often  would  I  have  gathered  thy  children 
"  together,  as  a  hen  gathereth  her  brood  under  her  wings  ! 
*'  but  ye  would  not,"  Luke  xiii.  33,  34.     And  he   faid  to 

*  the  Jews  ;  "  Therefore  alfo  faid  the  wifdom  of  God,  "  I 
*'  will  fend  them  prophets  and  apollles,  and  fome  of  them 
*'  they  (hall  flay  and  perfecute  ;  that  the  blood  of  all  the  pro-^ 
"  phets,  which  was  flied  from  the  foundation  of  the  world, 
'■'  rnay  be  required  of  this  generation  ;  from  the  blood  of 
*'  Abel,  unto  the  blood  of  Zacharias,  which  perilhed  be- 
"  tween  the  altar  and  the  temple.  Verily,  I  fay  unto  you, 
*'  it  fhall  be  required  of  this  generation,"  Luke  xi.  49,  50, 
'51.  And  he  faid  to  the  Jews,  "  Behold,  your  houfes 
*'  Ihali   be  left  unto  you   defolatc,"   Matth.   xxiii.   34,   Sic. 

*  Chrift  told  his  difciples,  that  the  temple  at  Jerufalem 
'  fhuuld  be  thrown  down,  and  there  fhould  not  be  one  ftone 
'  left  upon  another,  that  Oiouid  not  be  thrown  down, 
'  Matth.  xxiv.  2.  Alfo,  that  he  rnuft  go  to  Jerufalem.  and 
"  fufter  many  things  of  the  Jews,  elders,  and  chief  pricfts, 
<'  and  br  k«;hd,  and  raifed  again  the  third  day,"  Matth.  xvi. 
'  21.  And  Chrift  faid,  "  When  ye  fliali  fee  Jerufalem 
*'  comp.iU"'!  wirh  armies,  then  know,  the  deiolation  there- 
"  of  is  nigh."  ll<t  foretold,  that  the  Jews  ftiould  fall  by  the 
-  ed^e  of  the  fvvoidj  and  Ihould  be  kd  away  "  captive  into 


1686]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  373 

*'  all  nations;  and  Jemfalem  fliould  be  trodden  down  of  the 
"  Gentiles,"   Luke  xxi.   20,   24.      Here   you   may  fee  how 

*  Jerufalem  was  often  warned  by  Chrift,  and  how  often  he 
'  would  have  "  gathered  them,  but  they  would  not,"  be- 
'  fore  they  were  icattered  over  or  into  all  nations,  their  hou- 
'  fes  left  deiblate,  and  their  temple  and  Jerufalem  befieged 
'  with  armies,  deftroyed,  and  thrown  down.     And  though 

*  the  difciples  and  apoftles  of  Chrift  did  meet,  with  the  el- 
'  ders  and  church  at  Jerufalem,  after  Chrift  was  rifen,  yet 

*  Eufebius  reporteth  in  his  Ecclefiaftical  Iliftory,  that  the 
^  Chriftians  at  Jerufalem  had  a  vilion,  or  a  revelation  to  de- 

*  part  out  of  Jerufalem.     Being  forewarned  alfo  by  Chrift, 

*  that  "  when  they  Ihould  fee  Jerufalem  compafted  with  ar- 
*'  mies,  its  defolation  was  nigh  ;  and  that  the  temple  fhould 
*'  be  thrown  down,  and  not  one  ftone  left  upon  another ;" 

*  it  is  faid,  the  Chriftians  did  depart  out  of  bloody  Jerufalem, 

*  before  it  and  the  temple  were  deftroyed  by  Titus  the  em- 
^  peror,  who  befieged   it  with  his  armies.      He  was  of  the 

*  Gentiles,  and   deftroyed  the  temple    and    Jerufalem,    as 

*  Chrift  had  forefpoken  to  bis  difciples,  becaufe  of  the  wick- 
'  ednefs  of  the  Jews,  and  the  innocent  blood  that  they  had 

*  fhed  in  it.      So  the  Lord  called  his  people  out  of  bloody 

*  Jerufalem,  before  he   deftroyed   it.      And  it  is  faid,   Ti- 

*  tus  deftroyed  the  temple  and  Jerufalem  about  two-and-for- 

*  ty  years  after  Chrift  was  crucified  and  rifen  again,  and  that 

*  with  fo  great  a  deftruftion,  that  the  Jews  never  did  build 

*  again  the  city  of  Jerufalem,  nor  the  temple  (as  Sodom  was 

*  never  built  again,  nor  the  cities  of  the  old  world).     But 

*  the  Jews  for  above  thefe  thoufand  years  have  been,  and  are 

*  a  fcattered  people  in  all  nations  to  this  day;  and  Chrift 
'  (whom  they  crucified)  and  his  doftrine  is  preached,  and 
'  let  over  them :  and  the  Gentiles,  whom  they  hated,  have 
'  received  and  do  receive  him  and   his  do£lrine,  and  praife 

*  God  for  it  through  Jefus  Chrift,   Amen. 

'  God  called  his  people  out  of  Egypt,  after  he  had  pour- 

*  ed  out  his  ten  plagues  upon  the  Egyptians  ;  when  he  had 

*  deftroyed  the  firft-born  of  Egypt,  then  the  Lord  brought 

*  his  people  out  of  Egypt.     And  after  the  Lord  had  clearly 

*  brought  his  people  out,  hp  deftroyed  Pharaoh,  with  all  his 

*  hofts  and  chariots, 

'  John  faith,  he  heard  a  voice,  faying  ;  "  Come  out 
"  of  her,  my  people  (to  v;it,  out  of  Babylon,  the  falfe 
i'  church)  that  ye  be  not  partakers  of  her  fins,  and  that  ye 
^'  receive  not  of  her  plagues :  for  her  fins  bive  reached  to 


37+  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1686 

*'  heaven,  and  God  hath  remembered  her  iniquities,"  Rev. 

*  xviii.   4,  5.     Here  ye  may  fee,  that  God  did  call  his  peo- 

*  pie  out  of  fpiritual  Babylon  before  he  dellroyed  her, 
'  and  cad  her  down,  to  be  utterly  burnt  with  fire,  ver.  8, 
'  9,  and  21. 

•'  Was  not    Nebuchadnezzar's  empire   thrown   down  and 

*  ended  by  Cyrus  and  Darius,  who  were  of  the  feed  of  the 
'  Medcs,  before  Cyrus  and  Darius  gave  forth  their  procla- 
'  mation  for  all  the  Jews  to  go  into  their  own  land  out  of 
'  Babylon's  captivity  ?  and  was  there  not  a  prophecy  of  Cy- 

*  rus,  "  That  he  fhould  fubdue  nations,  and  that  the  Lord 
"  would  loofe  the  loins  of  kings  before  him,  and  break  in 
"  pieces  the  gates  of  brafs,  and  cut  in  funder  the  bars  of 
"  iron,  and  open  the  two-leaved  gates  ;  and  that  the  gates 
"  fliould  not  be  fhut  ?"  And  the  Lord  faid ;  "  This  is  for 
*'  Jacob,  my    fervant's    fake,  and    for    Ifrael    mine   e\e€t," 

*  Ifa.  xlv.     Was  not  this  fulfilled  in  Cyrus's  and  Darius's 

*  time  ?  For  did  not  then  the  Jews  go  out  of  captivity  into 

*  their  own  land  ?   Ezra  i.   2,  3,  4,  and  chap.  vi.  1.  and  12. 

*  and  Ifa.  xliv.  28.  and  xlv.  13.  Was  not  this  prophecy 
'  of  Ifaiah  fulfilled,  when  the  children  of  Ifrael  came  out  of 

*  Babylon  ?  Were  not  the  Affyrians,  that  carried  away  the 
'  ten   tribes  fubdued  ?    and   the    Babylonians,    that  carried 

*  away  the  two  tribes,  were  they  not  fubdued  in  the  days 
'  of  Cyrus  and  Darius,  in  whofe  days  the  "  loins  of  kings 
*'  were  loofed,  and  the  two-leaved  gates  of  brafs  and  iron 
"  were  opened  ?"  and  had  not  Ifrael  and  Jacob  their  liberty 
'  by  them  in  their  days,  to  go  into  their  own  Land  ? 

'  And  here  in  England,  was  it  not  obferved,  that  mofl 
'  of  the  honefl  and  fober  people  were  turned  out  of  the  ar- 
'  my,  and  their  commiflions,  offices,  and  places  taken  from 
'  them,  becaufe   they  could   not  join  with  others  in  their 

*  cruelty  and  perfecuting  ?  and  others  laid  down  their  com- 
'  miffions  themfelves,  and  came  out  from  amongft  thofe  per- 
'  fecutors,  before  they  were  overthrown,  and  brought  to 
'  confufion.     All  that  are  wife,  fee  thefe  things,   and  learn 

*  by  fuch  examples  and  way-marks  to  fhun  fuch  bogs.  The 
'  righteous  arc  fafe,  that  keep  in  Chrift,  their  everlafting 
'  fan6hiary,  that  changes  not ;  in  whom  they  have  reft  and 
'  peace  with  God,  Amen. 

'  G.   F/ 
'  Kinglton,  the  29th  of  the 
'  1  2th  Monih.  1686-7.' 


1686]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  375 

While  I  was  at  Kingfton,  one  day  meditating  on  the 
things  of  God,  fome  particular  obfervations  arofe  in  my 
mind  concerning  the  firit,  and  the  '  fecond  or  laft  Adam. 
'  As  that 

'  The  firfl.  man  Adam  was  made  on  the  fixth  day  of  the 
•'week;  and  Chrifl,  the  fecond  Adam,  was  crucified  on 
'  the  fixth  day  of  the  Week. 

*  The  firfl  Adam  was  betrayed  by  the  ferpent  in  the  gar- 
'  den  of  Eden  :   Chrift  our  Saviour,  the  fecond  Adam,  was 

*  betrayed  by  Judas  in  a  garden  near  Jerufalem. 

'  Chrill  arole  from  the  dead  on  the  firft-day  of  the  week ; 
'  and  they  that  do  believe  on  him  are  entered  into  Chrift 
'  their  reft  :  the  chriftians  meet  together  to  worfhip  God  on 

*  the  firft  day  of  the  week ;  and  on  the  firft  day  of  the  week 
'  it  was,  that  God  faid,  "  Let  there  be  light,  and  there  was 
"  light/'    The  Jews  reft  was  on  the  feventh  day  of  the  week, 

*  which  was  given  to  them  as  a  fign  of  the  eternal  reft  of 
'  the  Lord,  fanftifying  them,  after  they  came  out  of  the 
'  land  of  Egypt  :  for  before  that  time  the  Lord  had  not  giv- 
■  en  to  man  and  woman  his  outward  Sabbath-day  to  keep, 
'  neither  in  the  old  world,  nor  after  in  Abraham's  time, 
'  nor  in  Ifaac's,  nor  in  Jacob's  time  ;  until  the  Jews  came 
'  out  of  Egypt  to  Mount  Sinai  in  the  wildernefs.  Then 
'  the  Lord  gave  the  law,  and  his  Sabbath,  as  a  fign  in  the 
'  old  covenant,  of  Chrift  the  eternal  reft  m  the  new  cove- 
'  nant :   and  they  that  believe  do  enter  into  Chrift  their  reft. 

'  Adam,  the  firft  man,  is  the  root  from  whence  we  all 

*  fpring  naturally  :  and  Chrift  is  called  the  laft  or  fecond 
'  Adam,  becauie  he  is  the  beginning  and  root  of  all  that 
'  are  fpiritual. 

•  The  firft  Adam  was  made  a  living  foul :   and  Chrift  the 

*  laft  Adam  is  a  quickening  fpirit. 

'  Chrift  by  the  grace  of  God  tafted  death  for  every  man, 
'  that  they  might  all  come  into  fiivour  with  God;  and  that 
'  every  tongue  fhould  confefs,  that  "  Jefus  Chrift  is  Lord, 
"  to  the  glory  of  God  the  Father." 

I  wrote  alfo  a  paper  there,  concerning  the  two  feeds,  dif- 
tinguifliing  the  feed  wherein  the  blefimg  is  received,  from 
the  feed  which  the  curfe  remains  upon.  Of  which  the  lol- 
lowing  is  a  copy  : 


TH 
tl 


E    Lord  faid  to  Abraham,   "  In  thy  feed  fhall  all 
the  nations  of  the  earth  be  bleifed,"  Gen.  xxii.  18. 


§76  GEORGE    FOX^s    JOURNAL.  ti6i^ 

"  And  thy  feed  fliall  be  as  the  ftars  of  heaven,  and  as  the 
*'  fand  which  is  upon  the  fea-fliore,  and  as  the  duft  of  the 
'•  earth,  that  cannot  be  numbered,"  chap.  xiii.  l6.  and  xv. 

*  5.  and  xxii.  17.      In  this  feed  all  nations  and  families  of 

*  the  earth  are  bleffed  ;  but  not  in  the  feed  of  evil-doers  and 
'  of  falfehood,  nor  in  the  feed  of  adultery  and  the  whore, 

*  Ifa.  i.  4.  and  Ivii.  3,  4.  "  For  the  feed  of  the  wicked  fliall 
*'  be  cut  ofF,  faith  the  Lord,"  Pfal.  xxxvii.  28.     The  Lord 

*  faid  to   David,  "  That  his  feed  fhould  endure  for  ever," 

*  Pfal.  Ixxxix.  36.  And  again  it  is  faid,  Pfal.  cii.  28. 
"  The  children  of  thy  fervants  fhall  continue,  and  their  feed 
*'  ftiail  be  eftabliftied  before  thee."  Here  is  a  diflin6tion 
'  betwixt  the  two  feeds  :  for  the   feed  of  evil-doers,  of  the 

*  adulterer,  whore,  and  of  the  wicked  (hall  be  cut  off;  fo  it 
'  is  not  bleffed.  But  Chrifl  bruifes  the  head  of  the  ferpent 
'  and  his  feed,  which  he  foweth  in  them,  that  difobey  and 
'  tranfgrefs  God's  command,  and  rebel  againfl  God's  good 
'  Spirit.  This  wicked  feed  of  the  ferpent  is  curft,  and  is 
'  an  enemy  to  the  feed,  in  whom  all  are  blelfed.    But  Chrifl 

*  bruifes  the  head  of  this  curfed  feed  of  enmity,  and  dellroys 
'  the  devil  and  his  works ;  and  in  his  feed  are  all  bleffed, 
'  and  all  are  in  unity  in  this  feed.      All  the  children  of  the 

*  feed  are  the  children  of  the  kingdom  of  God  and  Chrifl:, 
'  and  are  bleffed  with  faitbtui    Abraham.      Whoever  are  of 

*  the  faving,  divine,  precious  faith,  are  of  Abraham,  walk 
'  in  the  fteps  of  the  feed  and  faith  of  Abraham,  and  are  blef- 

*  fed  with  him,  yea,  of  all  nations,  and  all  the  families  of  the 
'  earth. 

'  The  Lord  faid  to  Abraham,  "  Thy  feed  fhall  be  a 
*'  flranger  in  a  land  that  is  not  theirs,  and  fliall  ferve  them; 
"  and  they  fhall  afflicl  them  four  hundred  years  :  and  that 
*'  nation,  whom  they  fhall  ferve,  will  I  judge ;  and  after- 
*'  wards  fhall  they  (to  wit,  God's  feed)  come  out  with  great 
'•'  fubftance,"  Gen.  xv.  13,  14.  Here  ye  may  fee,  that 
'  xvhich  afflids  God's  feed,  he  will  judge,  and  did  judge; 
'  for  he  did  deftroy  the  firfl-birth  of  Pharaoh,  and  over- 

*  threw  him  and  his  hofl. 

'  An  holy  man  faid;  *•'  Except  the  Lord  of  Sabaotb  had 
*'  left  us  a  feed  or  remnant,  we  had  been  as  Sodom,"  &c. 
'  that  is  dcftroyed.  But  in  the  feed,  which  dellroys  the 
'  devil  and  his  works,  and  bruifes  the  head  of  the  ferpent 

*  and  his  feed,  are  all  nations  and  famihes  of  the  earth 
«  bleffed. 

'  Chrifl,  according  to  the  flefli,  was  of  Abraham  and  of 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  377 

*  Dayid  :    for  he  took  not  on   him   the   nature  of  angels, 

*  but  the  feed  of  Abraham ;  in  which  feed  all  nations  "and 

*  families  of  the  earth  are  bleffed.  And  fo  they,  tl.iat  are  of 
'  his  feed,  are  of  the  generation  of  Chnft  ;  are  "  flefh  of  his 
"  flefh,  and  bone  of  his  bone." — Now  all  nations  and  fami- 
'  lies  of  the  earth  muft  be  in  this  holy  feed,  if  thty  have  the 
'  bleflings,  and  are  bleffed.  And,  "  out  of  the  month  of 
*'  this  feed's  feed  fhall  not  God's  word  depart ;"  but  ffaali 
'  remain  and  abide  in  the  mouth  of  this  feed's  feed,  m  which 
'  they  are  blefled,  I  fa.  lix.  21.  So  it  is  not  the  fiifl-birth's 
'  talking  of  the  words  of  Chrifl,  the  feed,  in  whofe  mouth 
'  the  word  of  God  doth  not  abide,  that  makes  an  outward 
'  profefTion,  like  the  jews,  that  did  kill  and  perfecute  the 
'  prophets,  and  crucify  Chrift  the  feed  and  fubftance  of  the 
'  law  and  prophets,  which  the  Jews  profeffed  in  words,  but 

*  they  denied  Chrifl,  the  feed  and  life.  All  Chriftians  (fo 
'  called)  that  profefs  the  fcriptures  in  words,  and  are  not  in 
'  the  feed  Chrift,  are  in  the  confufion,  and  are  like  the  Jews. 
'  So  neither  Jews  nor  Chriftians  are  bleiled,  except  they  be 
'  in  Chrift,  the  feed  of  life. 

'  But  though  Chrift  is  laid  to  be  the  feed  of  David,  and 
'  of  Abraham,  as  his  generation  is  declared  by  Matthew 
'  and  Luke ;  yet  Chrift  was  not  born  of  the  will  of  the  flefh, 
'  nor  of  the  will  of  man,   but  of  God.      For  he  was  con- 

*  ceived  by  the  Holy  Ghoft,  born  of  the  Virgin,  and  fup- 
'  pofed  to  be  the  fon  of  Jofeph,  but  was  the  fon  of  God. 
'  His  name  was  called  Jelus,  becaufe  he  fhould  "  fave  his 
"  people  from  their  fins ;"  and  Emanuel,  God  with  us. 
'  Chrift  took  not  upon  him  the  nature  of  angels,   but  the 

*  feed  of  Abraham   (as  I  faid  before)   and  fo  was  made  of 

*  the  feed  of  David  according  to  the  flelh,  and  "  declared 
*'  to  be  the  Son  of  God  with  power,  according  to  the  fpirit 
*'  of  holinefs,  by  the  refurre6lion  from  the  dead,"  Rom.  i.  4. 

*  So  the  generation  of  Chrift  is  a  myftery.      Chrift  law  his 

*  feed  or  word  grow  up  in  his  difciples;  and  "  Chrift  in 
"  you  the  hope  of  glory."  the  apoftle  calls  "  the  myftery, 
"  which  hath  been  hid  from  ages  and  generations;  but  now 
**  is  made  maniteft  to  the  faints,  or  fanctified  ones,"  Col.  i. 
'  26,  27.  "  Whom  we  preach;  warning  every  man,  and 
*'  teaching  every  man  in  all  wifdom,  that  we  may  prefent 
"  every  man  perfect  in  Chrift  Jefus,"  v.  28.     For  in  Chrift, 

*  the  fecond  Adam,  all  are  made  perfe6l  and  complete;  and 

*  in  Adam  in  the  fall,  all  are  deformed  and  made  imptrfcft; 
'  fo  out  of  Chrift  all  mankind  arc  imperfect;  and  deformed; 

\'^  O  L .     II .  Q    B 


37?  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  liSBj 

'  let  them  paint  and  drefs  themfelves  with  the  fheep's  cloth- 
'  ing,    and   with   the  form   of  godlinefs,    of  the  prophets, 

*  Chrift's  and  his  apoflles  words  never  fo  much ;  yet  if 
'  Chrift  be  not  in  them,  they  are  incomplete,  imperfeft  de- 
'  formed,  reprobates.  But  the  apoflle  tells  the  church  of 
'  Chrift,  "  Ye  are  complete  in  Chnft,  which  is  the  head  of 
"  all  principality  and  power,"  Col.  ii.  lo-  (for  he  hath  "  all 
"  power  in  heaven  and  earth  given  to  him,"  Matth.  xxviii. 
'  18.)     So  all  the  faints  are  made  perfeft  and  complete  in 

*  Chrift  Jcfus ;  blefled  be  the   Lord  God  over  all  for  evtfr, 

*  through  Jefus  Chrift,  Amen,  Amen. 

*  G.  F/ 
'  Kingfton,  the  15th  of  the 
'  ift  Month,  1686-7.' 

Quickly  after  this  I  returned  to  London,  and  continued 
there  a  month  in  the  fervice  of  the  Lord ;  being  daily  exer- 
cifed  either  in  public  meetings,  or  more  particular  fervices 
relating  to  the  church  of  Chrift :  as  vifiting  fuch  as  were 
fick  or  afflided,  writing  books  or  papers  for  the  fpreading 
of  truth,  or  refuting  of  error.  As  it  was  a  time  of  general 
liberty,  the  Papifts  appeared  more  open  in  their  worftiip 
than  formerly,  and  many  unfettled  people  going  to  view 
them,  a  great  talk  there  was  of  their  praying  to  faints,  and 
by  beads,  &c.  whereupon  I  wrote  a  fhort  paper  concern- 
ing prayer ;  as  foiloweth  : 

'  /^HRIST  Jefus,  when  he  taught  his  difciples  to  pray, 

*  V-y  faid  unto  them,  "  When  ye  pray,  fay ;  Our  Father, 
"  which  art  in  heaven,  hallowed  be  th  ■  name,"  Sec.  Chrift 
'  doth  not  fay,  they  fhould  pray  to  Mary,  the  mother  of 
'  Chrift  ;  nor  doth  he  fay,  they  fhould  pray  to  angels,  or  to 
'  famts  that  were  dead.  Chrift  did  not  teach  them  to  pray 
'  to  the  dead,  nor  for  the  dead.  Neither  did  Chrift  or  his 
'  apoPiles  teach  the  believers  to  pray  by  beads,  nor  to  fing 
'  by  outward  organs ;  but  the  apoftle  faid,  he  would  ling 
'  and  pray  in  the  fpirit :  for  the  Spirit  itfclf  "  maketh  inter- 
"  ctffion;  and  the  Lord,  that  fearcheth  the  heart,  knoweth 
"  the  mind  of  the  fpirit." 

'  To  take  counfel  of  the  dead,  was  forbidden  by  fhe  law 
'  of  God  ;  they  were  to  take  counfel  of  the  Lord.     He  hath 

*  given  Chnft  in  the  new  covenant,  in  his  gofpel-day,  to  be 
'  a  counfellor  and  a  leader  to  all  believers  in  his  light. 
'  Men  are  not  to  run  to  the  dead  for  the  living ;  for  the  law 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  379 

'  and  teftimony  of  God  forbids  it.  Tliofe  Jows,  that  refuf- 
'  ed  the  running  waters  of  Shiloh,  the  floods  and  waters  of 

*  the  Affyrians  and  Babylonians  came  over  them,  and  car- 

*  ried  them  into  captivity  :  and  they  that  refiife  the  waters 
'  of  Chrift,  are  overflowed  with  the  flood  of  the  world,  that 
'  lieth  in  wicked nefs.  They  that  aflced  counfel  of  flocks 
'  and  flones,  were  in  the  i'pirit  of  error  and  whoredom  ; 
'  they  were  "  gone  a  whoring  from  God,"  Hofea  iv.  12. 
'  And  they,  that  "joined  themfelves  to  Baal-Pcor,  raid  ate 
*'  the  facrific  s  of  the  d(?ad,  provoked  the  Lord's  anger,  and 
*'  brought   'he   Lord's  difpleafure  upon   them,"    Pial.   cvi. 

*  28,  29.  So  here  ye  may  fee,  the  facrifices  of  the  dead 
'  were  forbidden.  The  living  know  that  they  fliall  die  ; 
'  but  the  dead  know  not  any  thing,  neither  have  they  any 

*  more  a  reward :  for  the  memory  of  them  is  forgotten,  Ec- 

*  clef.  ix.  5.  "  Wo  to  the  rebellious  children,  faith  the 
"  Lord,  that  take  counfel,  but  not  of  me ;  and  that  cover 
"  with  a  covering,  but  not  of  my  fpirit,  that  thi^y  may  add 
*'  fin  to  fin,"  Ifa.  xxx.  1. 

'  G.  F.' 

When  I  had  ftaid  about  a  month  in  London,  I  got  out 
of  town  again:  For  by  reafon  of  the  many  hardfhips  I  had 
undergone  in  imprifonments,  and  other  fufFerings  lor  truth's 
fake,  my  body  was  grown  fo  infirm  and  weak,  that  I  could 
not  bear  the  clofenefs  of  the  city  long  together  ;  but  was  lain 
to  go  a  little  into  the  country,  where  I  might  have  the  l>e- 
nefit  of  the  frefh  air.  At  this  time  I  went  with  my  fon-in- 
law  William  Mead,  to  his  country-houfe  called  Goofes  in 
Effex,  where  I  ftaid  about  two  weeks ;  and  among  other 
fervices,  that  1  had  there,   I  wrote  the  following  paper  : 

"  A  DiflinQion  between  the  true  off^ering  and  facrifice,  and 
"  the  falfe,  in  the  old  and  new  covenant. 

*  'T^HE  Lord  faith,  "  He  that  facrificeth  to  any  god, 
"  jL  fave  unto  the  Lord  onl)'^,  he  fliali  be  utterly  deftro)'- 
"  ed,"   Exod.  xxii.   20.      So  no  god  is  to  be  minded,  nor 

*  facrificed  to,  but  the  Lord  God.     It  is  death  to  facrifice 

*  to  any  other  god,  favc  the  Lord.  The  Lord  faith  alfo, 
•'  Thou  (halt  not  off^er  the  blood  of  my  fvcrifice  widi  leav- 
"  ened  bread,"  Exod.  xxiii.    18.      So  that  four  heavy  leav- 

*  en  muil  not  be  offered  with  the  Lord's  facrifice.     Again 
the  l^ord* faith;  ♦'  Thou  flialt  not  build  an  altar  of  hewn 

3  B  2 


380  GEORGE    FOX'S     JOURNAL.  [1687 

*'  ftone :  for  if  thou  lift  up  thy  tool  upon  it,  thou  haft  pol- 
"  luted  it,"  Exod.   xx.   25.      Therelore  have  a  care  of  pol- 

*  luting  the  altar  with  your  own  tools,  you  that  profefs  to 

*  offer  the  fpiritual  facnfice. 

'  Jonah  (aid;  "  He  would  fiicrifice  unto  the  Lord  with 
*'  the  voice  of  thankfgiving,"  when  he  was  in  the  fifli's  belly ; 

*  and  there  he  prayed  unto  the  Lord,  Jonah  ii.      For  Jonah 

*  in  the  whale's  belly  had  no  lambs,  nor  rams,  nor  outward 

*  facrifices  to  offer. 

'  The  Lord  forbids  his  people  to  facrifice  with  harlots, 

*  Hofea  iv.  14.      And  the  Lord  forbids  his  people  to  offer 

*  facrifice  of  the  blind,  lame,  fick,  or  that  which  was  deform- 

*  ed,  or  had  any  blemifh  :   as  in  Mai.  i.  and  many    other 

*  places.      So  they  that  offer  fpiritual    facrifice,    muft   not 

*  offer  the   blind,   lame,   blemillied,    or   deformed  iacrifice 

*  to  God. 

*  The  fcribe  faith  unto  Chrift,  "  To  love  God  with  all  the 
*'  heart,  and  with  all  the  underftanding,  and  with  all  the 
*'  foul,  and  with  all  the  ftrength,  and  to  love  his  neighbour 
*'  as  himfelf,  is  more  than  all  whole  burnt  offerings  and  fa- 
"  crifices,"  Mark  xii.  33.  "  And  when  Jefus  faw,  that  he 
*'  anfwered  difcreetly,  he  faid  unto  him  ;  Thou  art  not  far 
*'  from  the  kingdom  of  God,"  v.  34.      To  love  God,  and 

*  their  neighbour  as  themfelves,  was  more  than  whole  burnt- 

*  off. wrings  and  facrifices  in  the  time  of  the  law  ;  therefore  all 

*  offerings  and  facrifices  in  the   time  of  the  gofpel,  if  there 

*  be  not  love  to  God  and  to  their  neighbour  as  themfelves, 

*  avail  nolhing. 

'  David  faid,  "  Let  them  facnfice  a  facrifice  of  thankfgiv- 
*'  ing,  and  declare  his  works  with  rejoicing,"  Pfal.  cvii.  22. 
'  Tiiefe  are  the  facrifices  that  the  Lord  requnes  of  his  people, 

*  more  than  outward  facrifices.  David  faid,  "  Let  my  pray- 
<'  er  be  fet  forth  before  thee  as  incenfe ;  and  the  lifting  up  of 
*'  mine  hands  as  the  evening  facrifice,"    Pfal.  cxli.    2.    Here 

*  David  looks  upon  his  prayer  to  the  Lord,  and  the  lifting 
'  up  of  his  hands  to  him,  to  be  accepted  with  the  Lord,  as 
'  much  as  the  outward  incenfe,  and  the  outward  evening  fa- 
'  crifice.  Again  David  fays,  "  The  facrifices  of  God  are  a 
•'  broken  fpirit ;  a  broken  and  a  contrite  heart,  O  God,  thou 
"  w'lt  not  dcfpile,"  Pfal.  li.  17.  (Sec  alfo  Ifa.  Ivii.  15. 
<  and  chap.  Ixvi.  2.)  Thefe  are  the  facrifices  that  David 
^  faid  God  would  accept,  and  not  defpife;  which  are  beyond 

*  the  unbroken  fpirit,  and  unconLrite  hfart,  with  outward 
'  plF^rings  and  iacnficcs. 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  384 

*  The  adverfaries  of  the  Jews  would   have  joined   with 

*  them  towards  the  building  of  the  temple,  faying,  "  Let  us 
*'  build  with  )'ou,  for  we  feek  your  God,  as  ye  do;  and  we 
"  do  facrifice  unto  him."  But  the  Jews  refufed  them,  and 
'  faid;  "  Ye  have  nothing  to  do  with  us,  to  build  an  houfe 
"  unto  our  God,"  Ezra  iv.   2,  3.      Htre  ye  may  fee  God's 

*  people  refufed  their  building  with  them,    and  their  facri- 

*  fice.  Solomon  faith,  "  The  facrifice  of  the  wicked  is  an. 
*'  abomination  to  the  Lord,"  Prov.  xv.  8.  (Seealfo  Ifa.  i. 
'11.  and  chap.  Ixvi.  3.)  Solomon  alfo  faith,  *'  Better  is  a 
"  dry  morfel,  and  quietnefs  therewith,  than  an  houfe  full  of 
"  facrifices  with  ftrife,"   Prov.  xvii.    1.      Now  let  all  people 

*  confider  what  good  your  houfe  full  of  facrifices  doth  with 

*  ftrife,  when  a  dry  morfel,  and  quietnefs  therewith,  is  bet- 
'  ter  ?  Confider  all  people,  if  ye  live  in  vviekedneis,  your 
'  facrifice  is  an  abomination  to  the  Lord. 

'  Again,  Solomon  fpeaking  of  the  facrifice  of  fools,  faith; 
*'  They   confider   not,    that  they   do   evil,"    Ecclef.    v.    1. 

*  Fools  are  fuch  as  do  not  walk  in  the  Spirit  of  God,  or  be- 

*  gin  in  the  fpirit,  and  end  in  the  flefh,  like  the  foolifh  Gala- 
'  tians:  for  the  Spirit  of  God  is  the  Spirit  of  wifdom  and 
'  underftanding,  and  cannot  join  with  the   facrifices  of  the 

*  dead,  nor  of  the  fools,  nor  of  the  wicked,  wbofe  facrifice 

*  is  abominable;  who  grieve  and  quench  the  Spirit  of  God  : 

*  by  which  the  fpiritual  and  righteous  offer  up  fpiritual  facri- 

*  fices,  acceptable  to  God  by  Jefus  Chrift. 

'  The  apoftle  Paul  faith,  he  was  the  "  minifter  of  jefus 
"  Chrift  to  the  Gentiles,  miniftering  the  gofpel  of  God, 
'•'  that  the  offering  up  of  the  Gentiles  might  be  acceptable, 
"  being  fandified  by  the  Holy  Ghoft,"  Rom*  xv.  16.  So 
'  ye  may  fee,  that  all  the  acceptable  off^erings  and  facrifices 
'  to  God  muftbe  fan6lified  by  the  Holy  Ghoft.     The  fame 

*  apoftle  faith  to  the  Corinthians;  "  Ye  are  bought  with  a 
"  price:  therefore  glorify  God,  in  your  body,  and  in  your 
"  fpirit,  which   are  God's,"  1    Cor.  vi.   20.      And  to  the 

*  Romans,  he  faith  ;  "  I  befeech  you,  brethren,  by  the 
"  mercies  of  God,  that  you  prefent  your  bodies  a  living  fa- 
"  orifice,  holy,  acceptable  unto  God,  which  is  your  rea- 
"  fonable  fervice,"  Rom.  xii.  1.  This  is  the  duty  of  all 
'  true  Chriftians. 

'  Peter  alfo  faith,  in  his  general  epiftle  to  the  church  of 
'  Chrift;  "  Ye  alfo,  as  lively  ftones,  are  built  up  a  fpiritu- 
"al  houfe,  an  holy  priefthood,  to  offer  up  fpiritual  lacrifir 
f  ce^,  acceptable  to  God  by  Jefus   Chn^/'  \  Pet.  ii,  ^. 


382  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1687 

'  So  every  mail  and  woman  muftcome  to  the  Spirit  of  God 
'  in  their  own  hearts,  if  they  offer  up  fpiritual  iacri-fices,  ac- 
'  ceptable  to  God  by  Jefus  ChrLft.  For  as  ChriR  faith, 
*'  Every  facrifice  fhall  be  felted  with  fait,"  Mark  ix.  49. 
'  And  in  the  Old  Teftament  ye  may  fee,  all  their  outward 
'  oflerings  they  were  "  to  feafon  with  fait,"  Levit.  ii.  13. 
'  A  type  and  figure  of  Chrift,  who  "  gave  himfelf  for  us, 
"  an  otfering  and  a  facrifice  to  God,  for  a  fwect-fmelling  fa- 
"  vour,**  Ephef.  v    2.     Therefore  all  his   people  mull  be 

*  baptized  ^'itli  the  Holy  Ghoft  and  with  fire,  that  they  may 
'  be  faked  with  fire,  and  every  facrifice  faked  with  fait,  with 
'  the  Spirit  of  grace,  that  is  poured  upon  all  :   fothat  they 

*  may  offer  up  this  fpiritual  facrifice,  acceptable  to  God  by 
'  Jefus  Chrill. 

'  Samuel  faid  to  king  Saul ;   "  Hath  the  Lord  as  great  de- 

*  light  in  burnt-offerings  and  facrifices,  as  in  obeying  the 
*'  voice  of  the  Lord  ?  behold  to  obey  is  better  than  facri- 
*•'  fice ;  and   to  hearken,  than  the  fat  of  rams,"   1  Sara.  xv. 

*  22.  So  ye  may  fee,  all  offerings  and  facrifices  are  no- 
'  thing,  if  there  be  not  an  hearkening  to  the  Lord  in  his  Spi- 
'  rit,  and  an  obeying  of  his  voice.  Chrift  told  the  Jews, 
<  who  were  outward  facrificers,  that  he  would  have  mercy 

*  and  not  facrifice  :  and  bid  them  "  go  and  learn  what  that 
"  meaneth,"  Matth.  ix.   13. 

'  G.  f: 

'  Goofes,  the  28th  of  the 
'  2d  month,   1687.' 

The  beginning  of  the  third  month  I  returned  to  London, 
and  continued  there  till  after  the  yearly  meeting,  which  be- 
gan the  fixteenth,  and  was  very  large;  friends  having  more 
freedom  to  come  up  out  of  the  countries  to  it,  by  reafon  of 
the  general  toleration  and  liberty  now  granted.  The  meet- 
ing iafted  fcveral  days ;  and  at  the  clofe  thereof  it  was  upon 
me  to  write  the  following  lines,  to  be  difperfed  among  friends 

every  where,   as "  A  word  of  counfel  and  cautioa  to 

"  thjm  to  walk  circumfpe^ily  in  this  time  of  liberty." 

'  Dear  friends  and  brethren  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrifl ; 

HE  Lord  by  his  eternal  arm  and  poiver  having  fup- 
ported  you  in  all  your  fufferings,  great  fpoiling  of 
goods,  and  tedious  imprifonments,  only  for  ferving  and 
y.oriliipping  the  living  God  that  made  you  ^  who  gave  up 


1687]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  383 

*  wife  and  children  and  goods,  and  fuflFered  the  fpoil  of 

*  them,  and  imprifonment  for  his  truth  and  name's  fake  ; 

*  the  Lord,  by  his  infinite  power  and  mercy,  having  been 
'  pleafed  to  open  the  king's   heart  towards  you,   by   which 

*  you  are  fet  at  hbcrty  from  gaols,  and  the  fpoilers  of  your 
'  goods  are  ftopt,  whereby  ye  may  follow  your  callings, 
'  confefs  Chrifl  Jefus,  and  call  him  Lord  by  the  Holy 
'  Ghofl,  in  your  aflfemblies,  without  being  call  into  gaoh, 
'  or  having  your  goods  fpoiled.  Dear  brethren,  a  great  con- 
'  cern  lies  upon  me  from  the  Lord  to  write  unto  you,  "  That 
'•'  none  may  abufe  this  liberty,  nor  the  mercies  of  the  Lord, 
•'  but  prize  them  ;"  for  there  is  great  danger  in  time  of  liber- 
'  ty,  of  getting  up,  and  getting  into  eafe,  loofenefs,  and 
'  falfe  liberty.  And  now,  feeing,  that  ye  have  not  the  out- 
'  ward  perfecutors  to  war  with  in  fufFerings,  with  the  fpirit- 

*  ual  weapons  keep  down  that  which  would  not  be  fubje61:  to 
'  Chrift ;  that  he,  the  holy  One,  may  reign  in  your  hearts  ; 

*  that  your  lives,  converfations,  and  words  may  preach 
'  righteoufnefs  and  truth ;  that  ye  may  all  fhew  forth  good 
'  enfamples  of  true  believers  in  Chrift,  in  virtue  and  holi- 

*  nefs,  anfwering  that  which  may  be  known  of  God  in  all 

*  people,  that  ye  are  the  fons  and  daughters  of  God;  (tand- 
'  ing  faft  in  that  righteous,  holy  liberty  in  Chrift,  the  juft 
'  and  holy  One,  that  has  made  you  free,  over  the  loofe  or 
'  falfe;  fhunning  the  occafions  of  vain  difputes,  and  foolifti 
'  queftions  of  men  cf  co-rupt  minds :  for  the  ferpent  was 
'  the  firft  queftioner  of  Eve,  who  drew  her  and  Adam  oui: 
'  of  the  truth.  Therefore  as  ye  have  received  Chrift,  live 
'  and  walk  in  him,  v/ho  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head,  who  is 
'  your  fafe  fan6lu.ary  ;  in  whom  ye  have  eieftion,  reconcili- 
'  ation,  and  peace  with  God.  Therefore  live  in  the  peace 
'  which  ye  have  from  Chrift,  which  is  not  of  this  world ;  be 
'  at  peace  one  with  another,  and  feek  the  peace  of  ail  men 
'  in  Chrift  Jefus  :  for  blefted  are  the  peace-makers.  Labour 
'  to  exercife  a  good  confcience  towards  God,  in  obedience 
'  to  him  in  what  he  requires,  and  in  doing  to  all  men  the 
'  thing  that  is  juft  and  honeft  ;  in  your  converfations  and 
'  words  giving  no  offence  to  Jew  or  Gentile,  nor  to  the 
'  church  of  God.  So  ye  may  be  as  a  city  fet  on  God's 
'  Sion-Hill,  which  cannot  be  hid  ;  and  may  be  lights  to  the 
'  dark  world,  that  they  may  fee  your  good  fruits,  and  glorify 
'  your  Father  which  is  in  heaven  :  for  he  is  glorified  in  your 
'  bringing  forth  good  fruits,  as  ye  abide  in  Chrift,  the  vine, 
'  in  this  his  day  of  life,  power,  and  light,  that  fhineth  over 


584  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1687 

*  all.     Therefore  all  that  believe  in  the  light,   walk  in  the 

*  light,  as  children  of  the  light  and  of  Chrift's  everlafting 
'  day ;  that  in  the  light  ye  may  have  fellowfl.'p  with  the 
'  Father  and  the  Son,  and  one  with  another;  keeping  in  the 

*  unity  of  his  Holy  Spirit,  in  the  bond  of  his  holy  peace, 
'  in  his  church,  that  he  is  head  of.  My  defive  is,  that  God's 
'  wifdom  every  where  may  be  jufliified  of  her  children,  and 
'  that  it  may  be  fhewed  forth  in  metknefs,  and  in  the  fear  of 
'  the  Lord  in  this  his  day,   Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 

By  that  time  the  yearly  meeting  v/as  over,  I  was  very 
much  wearied  and  fpent :  wherefore  about  a  week  after  I 
got  out  of  town  to  a  friend's  houfe  a  little  beyond  Edmon- 
ton, where,  and  at  South-ftreet,  I  abode  fome  time,  and 
had  meetings  amongfl;  friends  there;  and  at  Winchmore- 
hill  and  Berry-ftreet.  Maving  my  mind  continually  exer- 
cifcd  in  the  things  of  God,  the  fenfe  of  his  infinite  good- 
nefs  and  mercy  to  mankind,  in  vifiting  them,  after  they  had 
tranrgreOed  and  rebelled  againft  him,  and  providing  a  way 
and  means  for  their  return  to  him  again,  was  very  much 
upon  me;  and  in  the  opening  of  the  Sphit  of  truth,  I  writ 
the  following  paper  on  that  fubjeft  : 

'  /^  OD,  who  made  all  men  and  women,  though  they 
'  V_T  have  tranfgreffed  his  commands  and  laws,  rebelled 
'  againft  him,  hated  his  light,  grieved  his  Spirit,  and  walk- 
'  ed  defpitcfully  againft  his  Spirit  of  grace ;  yet  he  who  is 
'  merciful,  would  have  all  to  be  faved,  and  come  to  the 
'  knowledge  of  the  truth.  All  that  come  to  the  knowledge 
'  of  the  truth,  muft  know  it  in  their  inward  parts;  I  fay, 
'  the  grace  and  truth,  which  comes  by  Jefus,  all  that  know 
'  and  find  it,  know  and  find  it  in  their  hearts.  Such  find 
'  the  hidden  man  of  the  heart,  the  pearl,  the  leaven,  the  loft 

*  piece  of  filvcr,  and  the  kingdom  of  heaven  v.ithin.  For 
'  tmtil  all  come  to  the  light  and  truth  in  their  hearts,  they 
'  have  been  ft  rangers  to  thefe  things,  in  Adam  in  the  fall, 
'  from  the  image  of  God,  his  light,  power  and  fpirit,  and 
'  kingdom.  But  Chrift,  that  never  fell,  brings  man  aiid 
'  woman  again,  that  follow  him,  to  know  thefe  things,  and 
'  to  know  the  truth,  hitn  the  Saviour,  and  brings  them  into 
'  liis  image,  and  his  everlafting  kingdom. 

'  The  devil,  who  is  out  of  the  truth,  tempted  man  and 
'  woman  to  difobey  God;  and  fo  drew  them  into  the  fall 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  385 

*  from  the  truth.      It  is  the  devil  that  hath  flopped  men's 

*  eyts,  ears,  and   hearts  from  the  truth,  who  is  called  the 

*  god  of  the  world  ;  who  hath  blinded  the  eyes  of  infidels, 
'  or  heathen.  But  Chrifl,  who  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head, 
'  and  deftroys  the  devil  and  his  works,  doth  open  men's 
'  Iiearts,  eyes,  and  ears,  v/ho  is  their  Saviour  and  Redeemer, 
'  and  giveth  life  eternal  to  his  people,  that  obey  him  and 
'  his  truth.  Blefifed  be  the  Lord  for  ever  through  Jefus 
'  Chrifl:,  who  hath  tailed  death  tor  all  men,  to  bring  them 
'  out  of  the  death  of  Adam ;   and  is  a  propitiation  for  the 

*  fins  of  the  whole  world,  and  gave  himfelfa  ranfom  for  al!, 
'  to  be  teftified  of  in  due  time.  For  as  by  Adam's  trani- 
'  greflion  and  difobedience  death  and  condemnation  came 
'  upon  all  men,  fo  by  Chrifl's  obedience  unto  death,  jufti- 
'  fication  of  life  is  come  upon  all  men  :  and  "  he  that  be- 
"  lieveth  in  Chrift  hath  eternal  life ;  but  he  that  doth  not 
"  is  condemned  already."  But  God  would  have  all  men  to 
'  be  faved,  and  come  unto  the  knowledge  of  the  truth,  as  it 
'  is  in  Jefus,  who  is  their  Saviour;  and  in  him  there  is  no 
'  condemnation. 

'  G.   F/ 

After  I  had  been  av/hile  here,  I  went  to  a  monthly- 
meeting  at  Enfield,  and  from  thence  with  fome  friends  to 
Hertford  ;  where  I  flaid  three  or  four  days,  vifiting  friends 
both  at  their  public  meetings  on  firft-day,  and  at  their  quar- 
terly meetings  of  men  and  women  :  and  good  fervice  for 
the  Lord  I  had  amongfl  them.  Then  palling  to  Waltham- 
Abby,  I  had  a  very  good  meeting  with  friends,  and  the 
next  day  went  to  another  place,  to  compofe  a  difference, 
which,  for  want  of  a  right  underOanding  of  each  other, 
had  happened  between  fome  friends.  I  returned  to  Wal- 
tham  that  night  :  and  the  next  day  went  with  fome  friends 
to    William   Mead's   houfe  in   Ellex. 

Here  I  flaid  fome  weeks,  yet  was  not  idle,  but  often 
vifited  meetings  thereabouts  :  as  at  Wanflead,  Barking, 
and  at  John  Harding's.  Betwixt  meeting  and  meeting  I 
wrote  many  things  for  fpreading  truth,  and  opening  peo- 
ple's underflandings  to  receive  it.  One  was  a  paper,  prov- 
ing from  the  fcriptures  that  people  mufl  repent  before  they 
can  receive  the  gofpel,  and  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  the  king- 
dom of  God,  or  be  baptized;  after  this  manner; 

Vol.  n.  3  c 


3^6  GEORGE    FOX's     JOURNAL.  [1687 

JOHN  the  Baptift  came  preaching  in  the  wildernefs  of 
Judea,  faying,  "  Repent  ye;  for  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
is  at  hand,"  Matth.  iii.  12.  When  John  the  Baptift  was 
caft  into  prifon,  Mark  fays ;  "  That  jefus  came  into  Gali- 

•  lee,   preaching  the  gofpel  of  the  kingdom  of  God,  and 

■  faying,  the  time  is  fulfilled,  and  the  kingdom  of  God  is 
'  at  hand;  repent  ye,  and  believe  the  gofpel,"  Mark  i.  14, 

15.     Matthew  alfo  fays;    "  From  that  time  Jefus  began 

■  to  preach  and  to  fay,  repent,  for  the  kingdom  of  heaven 

•  is  at  hand,"  Matth.  iv.  17.     "  And  when  Chrift  fent  forth 

■  his  twelve  difciples,  two  and  two,  they  went  out,  and 
=  preached,  that  men  fhould  repent,"  Mark  vi.  12.      Chrift 

faid  to  the  Jews,  "  Except  ye  repent,  ye  fhall  all  likewife 
'  penfh,"  Luke  xiii.  3,  5.  when  the  publicans  and  hnners 
came  to  hear  Chrift,  and  the  Pharifees  and  Scribes  mur- 
mured, faying,  "  This  man  receiveth  fmners,  and  eateth 
'  with  them,"  Luke  xv.  1,  2.  Chrift  reproved  them  by  a 
parable,  and  then  told  them;  "  Joy  fhall  be  in  heaven 
'  over  one  linner  that  repenteth,  more  than  over  ninety  and 
'  nine  juft  peifons,  which  need  no  repentance,"  ver.  7. 
Adding,  "  There  is  joy  in  the  prefence  of  the  angels  of 
God  over  one  fmner  that  repenteth,"  ver.  10.  Chrift, 
after  he  was  rifen,  faid  unto  his  difciples,  "  That  re- 
'  pentance  and  remiflion  of  fins  fhould  be  preached  in 
'  his  name  among  all  nations,  beginning  at  Jerufalem," 
Luke  xxiv.  47.  Peter  faid  to  the  Jews,  "  Repent,  and 
'  be  baptized  every  one  of  you  in  the  name  of  Jefus  Chrift 
'  for  the  remiifion  of  fins;   and  ye  ftiall  receive  fhe  gift  of 

•  the  Holy  Ghoft,"  A£ls  ii.  38.  Paul  faid,  "  The  times 
■'  of  this  ignorance  God  winked  at;  but  now  commandeth 
•'  all  men  every  where  to  repent,"  A£ls  xvii.  30.      Simon 

Magus  was  called  to  repentance,  if  he  had  regarded  it, 
A6ls  viii.  22.  The  apolUe  Paul  did  preach  at  Damafcus, 
at  Jerufalem,  and  throughout  all  the  coafts  of  Judea,  and 
then  to  the  Gentiles  (turning  them  from  darknefs  to  the 
light  of  Chrift,  and  from  the  power  of  Satan  to  God)  that 
they  fhould  "  repent  and  turn  to  God,  and  do  works  meet 

•  for  repentance,"  Atls  xxvi.  20. 

*  Here  ye  may  f^e  people  muft  repent  before  they  be- 
lieve and  are  baptized,  and  before  they  receive  the  Holy 
Ghoft  and  the  kingdom  of  God.  They  muft  repent  of 
their  vain  life  and  converfation  before  they  receive  the  gof- 
pel, and  muft  be  turned  from  darknefs  to  the  light  of 
Chrift,  from  the  power  of  Satan  unto  God,  before  they 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  387 

*  receive  his  holy  Spirit  and  his  gofpel  of  life  and  Hilvation. 
'  The  Lord  doth  command  all  men  every  where  to  repent, 
'  and  do  works  meet  for  repentance.  They  mull  Ihew  that 
'  their  lives,   converfations,   and  tongues  are  changed,   and 

*  that  they  ferve  God  in  newneis  of  life,  with  new  tongues 
'  and  new  hearts. 

'  G.  F.- 

*  Goofes,  the  6th  month, 

'  1687.' 

Another  fhort  paper  I  wrote  about  the  fame  time,  fliew- 
ing,  '  wherein  God's  people  fhould  be  like  unto  him.' 
Thus  : 

*  /^  Olf)  is  righteous,  and  he  would  have  his  people  to 
'  VT  be  righteous,  and  to  do  righteoufly.  God  is  holy, 
'  and  he  would  have  his  people  holy,    and  to  do  holily. 

*  God  is  juft,  and  he  would  have  his  people  to  be  juft,  and 
'  to  do  juftly  to  all.  God  is  light,  and  his  children  rauft 
'  walk  in  his  light.  God  is  an  eternal,  infinite  Spirit,  and 
'  his  children  muft  walk  in  the  Spirit.  God  is  merciful, 
'  and  he  would  have  his  people  to  be  merciful.  God's 
'  fun  fhines  upon  the  good  and  the  bad,  and  he  caufes  the 
'  rain  to  fall  upon  the  evil  and  the  good;  fo  fliould  his 
'  people  do   good  unto  all.      God  is  love,   and  they  that 

*  dwell  in  love  dwell  in  God.  Love  worketh  no  ill  to  his 
'  neighbour,  therefore  "  Love  is  the  fulfilling  of  the  law," 
'  Rom.  xiii.  10.  The  apoftle  faith,  "  All  the  law  is  ful- 
"  filled  in  one  word,  even  in  this,  Thou  fhalt  love  thy 
"  neighbour  as  thyfelf,"  Gal.  v.  14.  "  As  the  Father  hath 
"  loved  me,  fo  I  have  loved  you ;  continue  ye  in  my  love," 
'  John  XV.  9.  This  fhould  be  the  pra6tice  of  all  God's 
'  people. 

'  G.  F.' 

*  Goofes,  the  6th  month. 

'  1687/ 

And  becaufe  mofl  people  would  confefs,  that  God's  peo- 
ple fhould  be  thus,  but  few  know  how  to  come  to  this  liate, 
therefore  in  the  openings  of  the  Spirit  of  truth  I  wrote  ano- 
ther (hort  paper,  direding  to  '  the  right  way  and  means 
'  whereby  people  might  come  unlo  Chi  ill,  and  fo  be  made 
'  like  unto  God.     Thus : 

3  c  2 


38S  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1687 

'  ^HRIST  faith,  "    I  am  the   way,  the  truth,  and  the 

*  \^  life;  no  man  cometh   unto  the  Father  but  by  me." 

*  John  xiv.   6.      And   again,   "    No  man  can  come  to  me, 

*  except  the  Father  which   hath  fent  me  draw  him,"  John 

*  vi.  44.     Now,  what  is  the  means   by  which    God   doth 

*  draw  his  people  to  his  Son,  but  by  his  holy  Spirit,  who 
"  poureth  out  of  his  Spirit  upon  all  flefh,"  that  is,  all  men 

*  and  women.  By  this  holy  Spirit  the  holy  and  righteous 
'  God  doth  draw  people  from  their  unrighteoufnefs  and  un- 
'  holinefs  to  Chrift,  the  righteous  and  holy  One,  the  great 
'  Prophet   in    his    New    Covenant    and    New    Tcftament, 

*  whom  Mofes  in  the    Old  Covenant  and  Tellament  faid, 

*  God  would  raife  up  like  unto  him,  whom  people  fliould 
"  hear  in  all  things  ;  and  they  that  would  not  hear  him 
*'  fliould  be  cut  off."  They  that  do  not  hear  the  Son  of 
'  God,  the  great  Prophet,  do  not  mind  the  drawing  of  the 

*  Father  by  his  holy  Spirit  to  his  Son;  but  they  that  mind 

*  the  drawings  of  the  good  Spirit  of  the   Father  to  his  Son, 

*  the  Spirit  doth  give  them  underftanding  to  know  God  and 
'  jefus  Chrift,  which  is  eternal  life.      Then  they  know  that 

*  Jefus  Chrift  is   the  way,  the  truth,  and  the  life,  and  that 

*  none  can  come  unto   God  but  by  and    through  his  Son, 

*  who  is  their  Ihephcrd  to  feed   them  in   his   pafiures   and 

*  fprings   of  life  ;  and  his  fheep   know  his   holy   voice,  in 

*  whom  there  was  no  fin^,  and  in  whofe  mouth  there  was  no 

*  guile,  and  an  hirehngthey  will  not  hear,  for  he  careth  not 
'  for  the  fheep  :  for  they  are  not  the  hireling's  but  Chnft's, 
'  who  hath  laid  down  his  life  for  his  fiieep.      He  that  robs 

*  and  fteals  his  neighbour's  words,  ciirnbeth  up  another 
'  way,  and  entercth  not  by  the  door,  is  a  thief  and  a  robber; 

*  but  Chrift  is  the  door  into  his  ilieepfold,  for  his  fheep  to 

*  enter  in  by.      They  know  that  Chrift  is  the  biftiop  of  their 

*  fouls,  to   fee   that  they  do  not  go   aftray  from    God  nor 

*  out  of  his  paftures  of  life.     Thcv  know  that  Chrift  is  their 

*  mediator,  who  makes  their  peace  with  God.     They  know 

*  that  Chrift  is  their  high-priell.  made  higher  than  the 
'  heavens,  and   hath  died   for   their  hns,  and  doth  cleanfe 

*  them   with   his  blood,  and  is  nfen  for   their  juftification. 

*  and  is  able  to  the  utmoft  to  fave  all  that  coiue  to  God  by 
'  him. 

'  G.   F.' 
•  Goofcs,  the  6th  month, 
'  1687.' 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  389 

Before  I  left  this  place  I  wrote  another  paper,  the  fcope 
whereof  was  to  fhew,  by  many  in  fiances  taken  out  of  the 
holy  fcriptures,  that  the  kingdom  of  God,  which  moft 
people  talk  of  at  a  diftance  and  refer  altogether  to  another 
life,  is  in  fome  meafure  to  be  known  and  entered  into  in 
this  life  ;  but  that  none  can  know  an  entrance  thereinto, 
but  fuch  as  are  regenerated  and  born  again.  Of  that  pap 
the  following  is  a  copy  : 


er 


'  /^HRIST  faith,  "  except  a  man  be  born  again  he  can- 
'  \^y  not  fee  the  kingdom  of  God,"  John  iii.  3.  "  That 
"  which  is  born  of  the  flefli  is  flefh,  and  that  which  is  born 
"  of  the  Spirit  is  Spirit,"  ver.  6.  So  "  except  a  man  be 
"  born  of  vv^ater  and  of  the  Spirit  he  cannot  enter  into  the 
"  kingdom   of  God,"  ver.   5.      And  John,  writing   to  the 

*  feven  churches  of  Afia,  calls  himfelf  their  "  brother,  and 
"  companion  in  tribulation,  and  in  the  kingdom  and  pati- 
"  ence  of  Jefus  Chrifl,"  Rev.  i.   9.      Here  you  may  fee  that 

*  John  was  in  the  kingdom,  fo  he  was  born  again  :  for  he 
'  did  not  only  fee  the  kingdom  but  was  in  it. 

'  And  John  faith,  "  Behold  what  manner  of  love  the 
*''  Father  hath  bellowed  upon  us,  that  we  fliould  be  called 
**  the  f^s  of  God  ;  therefore  the  world  knoweth  us  not, 
"  becaufe  it  knew  him  not,"  1  John  iii.  1.  "  Beloved, 
"  now  are  we  the  fons  of  God,"  ver.  2.  "  If  ye  know  that 
*'  he  is  righteous,  ye  know  that  every  one  that  doth  righte- 
"  oufnefs  is  born  of  him,"  chap.  ii.  29.  "  Whofoever  is 
'•'  born  of  God  doth  not  commit  fin,  for  his  feed  remaineth 
"  in  him,  and  he  cannot  fin  becaufe  he  is  born  of  God." 
'  chap.  iii.  9.  "  Let  us  love  one  another,  for  love  is  of 
*'  God  ;  and  every  one  that  loveth  is  born  of  God,  and 
'"  knoweth  God.  He  that  loveth  not,  knoweth  not  God; 
"  for  God  is  lo\T,"  chap.  iv.  7,  8.  "  Whofoever  believ- 
*'  eth  that  Jefus  is  the  Chrift,  is  born  of  God,"  chap.  v.  1. 
''  Whofoever  is  born  of  God,  overcometh  the  world ;  and 
'•'  this  is  the  viftory  that  overcometh  the  world,  even  our 
"  faith,"  ver.  4.  Were  not  thele  that  were  born  of  God  in 
'  the  kingdom  of  God  ?  And  feeing  John  fays,  "  Every  one 
"  that  doth  righteoufnefs  is  born  of  God;"  do  not  fuch  fee 
'  the  kingdom  of  God,  that  Hands  in  righteoufnefs,  and  en- 
'  ter  into  it  ? 

'  Peter,  in  his  firfl;  general  epiflle  to  the  church  of  Chrift, 

*  faith,  "  As  new-born  babes  defire  the  fiiicere  milk  of  the 
*'  word,  that  ye  may  grow  thereby,"  1  Pet.  ii.   2.      And  he 


390  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1687 

'  tells  them  they  were  "  a  chofen  generation,  a  royal  priefl- 
"  hood,  an  holy  nation,  a  peculiar  people,"  that  they  fhould 
*■'  ftievv  forth  the  praifes  of  him  who  had  called  them  out  of 
"  darknefs  into  his  marvellous  light,"  ver.  9.  And  that 
"  as  lively  (lones  they  were  built  up  a  fpiritual  houfe,  an 
"  holy  priefthood  to  offer  up  fpiritual  facrifices,  acceptable 
"  to  God  by  Jefus  Chrift,"  ver.  5.  Did  not  thefe  new- 
'  born  babes,  thefe  lively  ftones,  fpiritual  houfehold,  royal 
'  priefthood,  holy  nation,  and  chofen  generation,  who  were 
'called  out  of  darknefs   into' Chrift's  marvellous  light,  fee 

*  and  enter  into  his  holy  kingdom,  being  heirs  of  the  fame  ? 
'  who  were  "  born  again,  not  of  corruptible  feed  but  of  in- 
*'  corruptible,  by  the  word  of  God  which  liveth  and  abid- 
"  eth  for  ever,"   1   Pet.  i.   23.      And   had  not  fuch  an   en- 

*  trance  miniftcred  to  them  into  the  everlafting  kingdom  of 

*  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jefus  Chrift  ? 

'  James,  in  his  general  epillle  to  the  church  of  Chrift, 
'  faith,  "  Hath  not  God  chofen  the  poor  of  this  world,  rich 
"  in  faith,  and  heirs  of  the  kingdom  which  he  hath  promifed 
"  to  them  that  love  him?"  James  ii.  5.  The  apoftle  Paul. 
'  faith,  "  God  fent  forth  his  ion  made  of  a  woman,  &c.  to  re- 
*'  deem  them  that  were  under  the  law,  that  we  may  receive 
"  the  adoption  of  fons ;  and  becdufe  ye  are  fons,  God  hath 
"  fent  forth  the  Spirit  of  his  Son  into  your  hearts,  crying, 
"  Abba,  Father.  Wherefore  thou  art  no  more  a  fervant 
"  bat  a  fon,  and  if  a  fon  then  an  heir  of  God  through 
"  Chrift,'  Gal.  iv.  4,  5,  6,  7.  The  fame  apoftle  faith, 
"  As  many  as  are  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God  they  are  the  fons 
"  ot  God;"  and  tells  the  faints  at  Rome,  "  Ye  have  receiv- 
"  ed  the  Spirit  of  adoption,  whereby  we  cry  Abba,  Father. 
*■  The  Spirit  itfelf  beareth  witnefs  with  our  fpirit,  that  we 
*'  are  the  children  of  God  ;  and  if  children,  then  heirs, 
"  heirs  of  God,  and  joint-heirs  with  Chrift  :  if  fo  be  we 
"  fuffcr  with  him,  that  we  may  be  alfo  glorified  together," 
'  (namely  with  Chrift)  Rom,  viii.  14,  15,  16,  17.  Now 
'  feeing  they  are  the  fons  of  God  that  are  led  by  the  Spirit  of 

*  God,  and  the  Spirit  beareth  witnefs  unto  their  fpirit  that 
'  they  are  the  children  of  God,  heirs  of  God,  and  joint- 

*  heirs  with  Chrift,  are  not  all  thefe  children  of  God  heirs  of 
'  the  righteous  glorious  kingdom  of  God  ?  And  do  they  not 
'  fee  it  and  enter  into  it  ? 

'  The  Lord  faith  in  Hofea  i.  10.  "  Where  it  was  faid 
"  unto  them,  ye  are  not  my  people,  there  it  fhall  be  faid 
"  unto  them,  ye  arc  the  fons  of  the  Living  God."     Did  not 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  391 

*  this  relate  to  the  gofpel-days  of  the  New  Covenant  ?     See 

*  Rom.  ix.  26.  And  what  the  Lord  faid  by  the  prophet 
'  Jeremiah,  chap.  xxxi.  1,  the  apoftle  applies  to  the  gofpel- 
'  days,  and  fays,  "  Be  ye  feparate,  faith  the  Lord,  and  touch 
"  not  the  unclean  thing  ;  and  I  will  receive  you,  and  will 
^  be  a  father  unto  you,  and  ye  fhall  be  my  fons  and  daugh- 
"  ters,  faith  the  Lord  Almighty,"   2  Cor.  vi.  16.      Are  not 

*  thefe  the  children  that  fee  and  enter  into  the  righteous 

*  kingdom  of  God,  that  feparate  from  that  which  is  unclean 
'  and  touch  it  not  ? 

'  The  Lord  faith  alfo  by  Ifaiah,  "  I  will  fay  to  the  north, 
"  give  up,  and  to  the  fouth,  keep  not  back;  bring  my  fons 
"  from  far,  and  my  daughters  from  the  ends  ot  the  earth," 
'  Ifa.  xliii.  6.  Then  doth  not  he  bring  them  to  his  king- 
'  dom  of  glory,  that  ftands  in  righteoufnefs  and  peace,  and 
'  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghoft  ? 

'  The  Lord  faid  to  Job,  "  When  the  morning-ftars  fang 
"  together,  and  all  the  fons  of  God  fhouted  for  joy/'  }ob. 
'  xxxviii.  7.  Where  did  thefe  fons  of  God  fhout  for  joy  ? 
'  Was  it  not  in  his  kingdom  of  glory  ? 

'  Chrifl  faith,  "  The  lead  in  the  kingdom  of  God  is 
"  greater  than  John,"  Luke  vii.  28.  And  in  chap.  xvi. 
'  16.  he  fays,  "  The  law  and  the  prophets  were  until  John ; 
"  fmce  that  time  (viz.  "fince  the  law  and  the  prophets  and 
"  John)  the  kingdom  of  God  is  preached,  and  every  man 
"  prefTeth  into  it." 

'  The  good  feed  are  the  children  of  the  kingdom.  Matt. 
'  xiii.  38.  And  "  the  righteous  (liall  fhine  forth  as  the  fim 
*'  in   the  kingdom   of  their  Father,"  ver.  43.      Chrifl  faid 

*  unto  his  difcip'.es,  !'  Unto  you  it  is  given  to  know  the 
"  myfleries  of  the  kingdom  of  God,"  Mark  iv.  11.  Chrifl 
'  lifted  up  his  eyes  upon  his  difciples,  and  faid.  "  Bleffed 
"  be  ye  poor,  for  yours  is  the  kingdom  of  God,"  Luke  vi. 
'  20.  The  apoflles  preached  the  kmgdom  of  God.  Thefe 
'  were  born  again,  that  fav/  and  knew  the  kingdom  of  God 
'  and  preached  it. 

*  Chrifl  faid  to  his  difciples,  '■'  Fear  not  little  flock,  for 
"  it  is  your  Father's  good  pleafure  to  give  you  the  king- 
*'  dom,"  Luke  xii.  32.  "  I  appoint  to  you  a  kingdom, ' 
'  faid  Chrifl,   "  as  my  Father  hath  appointed  to  me,"  chap. 

*  xxii.  29.  The  Lord  faid,  "  He  that  ovcrcomcth  fliall  in- 
"  herit  ail  things,  and  I  will  be  his  God  and  he  ih;'l]  be 
"  my  fon,"  Rev.  xxi.  7.  And  John  faith,  '*  I  have  written 
"  unto  you.  young  men,  becaufc  }e  are   fhong.  and  the 


392  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  li6Sj 

"  word  of  God  abideth  in  you.  and  ye  have  overcome  the 
"  wicked  one,"  i  John  ii.  14.  And  Chrift,  by  whom  are 
'  ail  things,  is  faid  "  to  bring  many  fons  to  glory,"  Heb. 
'  ii.  10. 

'  He  faid,  "  Wo  unto  you  fcribes  and  Pharifees,  hypo- 
••  crites,  for  ye  fhut  up  the  kingdom  of  heaven  againfl:  men  ; 
•'  for  ye  neither  go  in  yourfelves,  neither  fuffer  ye  them  that 
"  are  entering  to  go  in,"  Matt,  xxiii.  13.  '•'  Wo  unto  you, 
"  lawyers,  for  ye  have  taken  away  the  key  of  knowledge ; 
'"  ye  entered  not  in  yourfelves,  and  them  that  were  entering 
"  in  ye  hindered,"  Luke  xi.  52.  Chriil  gives  unto  his  chil- 
'  dren  the  keys  of  the  kingdom,  his  Spirit ;  but  the  fcribes, 
'  pharifees,  and  lawyers,  great  profeflbrs,  who  were  erred 
'  from  the  Spirit,  like  the  great  profeflbrs  in  our  age,  that 
'  feoff  at  the  Spirit,  and  draw  people  from  the  Spirit  of 
'  God  within,  thefe  fliut  up  the  kingdom  from  men,  and 
'  draw  people  from  the  key  of  knowledge,  and  the  key  of 
'  the  kingdom.  "  For  no  man  knQv;s  the  things  of  God, 
'=  but  by  the  Spirit  of  God ;"  for  the  things  of  God  are  fpi- 
'  ritually  difcerned.  The  Spirit  is  the  key,  by  which  the 
'  kingdom  of  God  and  the  things  of  God  are  revealed,  dif- 
'  cerned,  and  known,  according  to  1  Cor.  ii.  10,  11,  13,  14. 
'  The  apoftle  names  fome  in  his  epiftle  to  the  Coloffians, 
'  and  fays,  "  Thefe  are  my  fellow-workers  unto  the  king- 
•'  dom  of  God,"  Col.  iv.  11.  And  he  tells  that  church, 
'  that  "  God  hath  delivered  us  from  the  power  of  darknefs, 
'■  and  hath  tranflated  us  into  the  kingdom  of  his  dear  Son," 
'  chap.  i.  13.  So  ye  may  fee  thefe  were  born  again  that 
'  were  tranflated  into  the  kingdom  of  Chrift,  and  were  fel- 
'  low-workers  unto  the  kingdom  of  God. 

'  Chrift  exhorts  his  difciples  to  love  and  to  do  good,  that 
'  they  might  be  the  children  of  their  Father  which  is  in  hea- 
'  ven,  Matt.  v.  45.  He  bids  them  be  perfeft,  even  as  their 
'  Father  which  is  in  heaven  is  perfed,  ver.  48.  The  apof- 
'  tic  faith  to  the  church  at  Philippi,  "  That  ye  may  be 
"  blamelcfs  and  harmlcfs,  the  fons  of  God,  without  rebuke, 
"  in  the  midft  of  a  crooked  and  perverfe  nation  ;"  amongft 
'  whom  ye  Ihine  as  lights  in  the  world,  holding  forth  the 
'  word  of  life,  &c.  Phil.  ii.  15,  16.  And  writmg  to  the 
'  church  of  the  Theflalonians,  he  puts  them  in  mind  how 
'  he  had  e.\.hortcd  them  that  they  would  "  walk  worthy  of 
"  God,  who  had  called  them  into  his  kingdom  and  glory," 
'  1  Their,  ii.  12. 

'  The  Lord  had  pvomifed  by  the  prophet   Joel,  that  he 


168;]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  393 

'  would  "  pour  out  his  Spirit  upon  all  flefli,"  and  that 
"  Sons  and  daughters  fnould  prophef)^,  old  men  fliould 
"  dream  dreams,  and  young  men  fee  vihons,"  Joel  ii.  28. 
'  The  caufe  that  fons  and  daughters,  hand-maids,  fervants, 
'  young  men,  and  old  men  have  not  thefe  heavenly  vifions, 
'  dreams,  and  prophecies,  is  becaufe  they  are  "  erred  trorn  the 
"  Spirit  of  God,"  which  he  poureth  upon  them  ;  but  as  ma- 
'  ny  as  are  led  by  the  Spirit  of  God  are  the  fons  of  God. 

'  John  faith  Chrift  was  the  true  light,  '•  which  lighteth 
"  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world,"  John  i.  9.  And 
'  that  "  as  many  as  received  him,  to  them  gave  he  power 
"  to  become  the  fons  of  God,  ver.  12.  which  were  born 
"  not  of  blood,  nor  of  the  will  of  man,  but  of  God,"  ver, 
'  13.  The  reafon  why  people  do  not  become  the  fons  of 
'  God,  is  becaufe  they  do  not  receive  Chrift.  The  Jews, 
'  the  great  profcllors,  who  had  the  promifes,  prophecies, 
'  figures,  and  fhadows  of  him,  would  not  receive  him  when 
'  he  came.  And  now  the  priefls  and  high  profeflbrs  of 
'  Chrift  are  fo  far  from  i^ceiving  the  light  of  Chrift,  and 
'  believing  in  it,  that  they  hate  the  light  and  feoff  at  it,  cal- 
'  ling  it  a  natural  confcience,  and  fome,  "  Jack  in  the  lan- 
"  thorn."  Such  are  not  like  to  become  the  fons  of  God, 
'  nor  to  fee  the  glorious  kingdom  of  Chrift,  which  ftands  in 
*  righteoufnefs,  peace,  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghoft.  For 
'  the  light  that  fliines  in  the  heart  gives  the  "  light  of  the 
"  knowledge  of  the  glory  of  God  in  the  face  of  Chrift  Jefus." 
'  They  that  do  not  receive  Chrift  Jefus,  but  hate  his  light 
'  (which  is  the  life  in  him)  and  yet  profefs  him  in  words, 
'  neither  know  the  children  of  the  light,  nor  true  fellowftiip 
'  in  the  lii^ht,  nor  the  kingdom  of  God.  that  ftands  in  ris^ht- 
'  eoufnefs.  peace,  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghoft ;  but  by  the 
'  light  they  are  condemned.  "  And  this  is  the  condemna- 
"  tion,  that  light  is  come  into  tlie  world,  and  men  love  dark- 
"  nefs  rather  tiran  light,  becaufe  their  deeds  are  evil.  For 
"  every  one  that  doeth  evil  hateth  the  light,  neither  cometh 
'■'  to  the  light,  left  his  deeds  lliould  be  reproved,"  John  iii. 
'  19,  20.  But  the  children  of  tliC  light,  that  walk  in  the 
'  light,  come  to  heavenly  Jerufaiem,  to  the  city  of  the  Liv- 
'  ing  God,  to  the  innumerable  company  of  angels,  and  to 
'  the  general  aifembly  and  church  of  the  firft-born,  that  are 
'  written  in  heaven,  and  can  fino;  Halleluiah. 


'  Goofcs,  the  2d  of  the 
'  7th  month,  1G87.' 

Vol.     II.  3    i, 


G.  F.' 


39+  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1687 

Having  been  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  year  in  the  coun- 
try, I  returned  to  London  fomewhat  better  in  health  than 
formerly,  having  received  much  benefit  by  the  country  air. 
And  it  being  a  time  of  general  liberty  and  great  opennefs 
amongft  the  people,  I  had  much  fervice  for  the  Lord  in 
the  city,  being  almoft  daily  at  publick  meetings,  and  fre- 
quently taken  up  in  vifiting  friends  that  were  fick,  and  in 
other  fervices  of  the  church.  I  continued  at  London  about 
three  months ;  then  finding  my  ftrength  much  fpent  with 
continual  labouring  in  the  work  of  the  Lord,  and  my  body 
much  flopped  for  want  of  frefh  air,  I  went  to  my  fon  Roufe's 
by  Kingflon,  where  I  abode  fome  time,  and  vifited  friends 
at  Kingllon.  While  I  was  there,  it  came  upon  me  to  write 
a  paper  concerning  the  Jews,  fhewing,  '  How  by  their  dif- 
'  obedience  and  rebellion  they  lofl  the  holy  city  and  land/ 
By  which  example  the  profelled  Chriflians  may  fee  what 
they  are  to  expert,  if  they  continue  to  difobey  and  provoke 
the  Lord.     The  copy  here  followeth  : 

'  'THHE  Lord  gave  the  Jews  in  the  Old  Teflament  the 
♦  A  land  of  Canaan,  and  they  built  the  temple  at  Jerufa- 
■'  lem  to  worfliip  in.  It  was  called  "  the  Holy  temple,"  and 
'  Jerufaiem  was  called  "  the  Holy  City,"  and  Canaan  "  the 
'•  Holy  Land."  But  when  the  Jews  rebelled  againfl  the 
'  good  Spirit  which  God  gave  them  to  inflru6l  them,  and 
'  rebelled  againfl  his  law,  and  fet  up  idols  and  images,  and 
'  defiled  the  land  and  the  city,  the  Lord  fent  his  prophets 
'  to  cry  againfl  them,  to  bring  them  back  again  to  his  Spirit, 
'  and  to  his  law,  and  fo  to  God,  to  icrve  and  worfhip  him, 
'  that  they  might  not  worfhip  images  and  idols,  the  works 
'  of  their  own  hands.  But  inflead  of  hearkening  to  God's 
'  prophets,  they  perfecuted  them,  and  at  lafl  killed  his  Son 
'  Chrifl  Jefus,  and  perfecuted  his  apoftles.  But  Chrifl  told 
'  the  Jews  that  both  their  city  and  temple  fhould  be  laid 
'  walle,  and  they  fhould  be  fcartered  over  all  nations  ;  and 
'  it  was  fo.  Titus  the  Roman  Emperor  came  and  took  Je- 
'  rufalem,  and  deltroyed  the  city  and  temple,  which  was  a 
'  day  of  vengeance  upon  the  Jews  for  all  their  idolatries, 
'  their  wickednefs,  and  for  the  innocent  blood  they  had  fhed 

*  both  in  the  city  and  country ;  and  they  were  driven  out 

*  of  their  own  city  and  land,  and  fcattered  over  all  nations. 
'  The  Jews  had  never  power  to  get  the  land  fince,  nor  to 

*  build   Jerufaiem  nor  the  temple;  but  the  Tuik  hath  both 
'  the  land  of  Canaan  and  that  which  is  called  •'  the  City  of 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  395 

"  Jemfalem."  Now  the  Turk  neither  makes  images  nor 
'  worfhips  images;  fo  it  is  a  juft  hand  of  the  Lord  that  he 
'  fhould  be  over  the  perfecuting,  idolatrous  Jews,  lb  that 
'  they  cannot  defile  the  land  of  Canaan  now  v.ith  images 

*  and  idols,  for  the  Turk  hath  not,  who  neither  makes  ima- 
'  ges  nor  idols,  nor  worfliips  them.  The  Jews  mufl  never 
'  hope,  believe,  nor  expeft,  that  ever  they  fhall  go  again  in- 
'  to  the  land  of  Canaan,  to  fet  up  an  outward  worfhip  at 
'  Jerufalera,  and  there  for  their  priefts  to  ofFer  outward  fa- 
'  crifices  of  rams,  fheep,  and  heifers,  &c.  for  burnt-OiFer- 

*  ings ;  for  Chrift,  the  one  offering,  hath  offered  himfelf 
'  once  for  all,  and  by  this  one  offering  he  hath  perfected  for 
'  ever  them  that  are  fanftified.      And  Chrifl  hath  changed 

*  the  prieflhood  of  Aaron,  that  offered  facrifices,  which  was 
'  made   after   the  power   of  a  carnal  commandment ;    but 

*  Chrifl  was  made  after  the  power  of  an  cndlefs  life,  a  prieft 

*  for  ever,  who  was  holy,  harmlefs,  and  leparate  from  fm- 
'  ners,  and  is  a  priefl  made  higher  than  the  heavens.  This 
'  is  the  prieft  that  gives  power  to  all  that  receive  him  to 

*  become  the  fons  and  daughters  of  God ;  and  Jerufalem 

*  that  is  above  is  the  mother  of  all  the  fons  and  daughters 

*  of  God,  which  is  free;  but  Jerufalem  that  is  below  is  in 

*  bondage  with  her  children.     They  that  are  the  children  of 

*  Jerufalem  that  is  above  do  not  look  down  at  Jerufalem 
'  that  is   below;  but  they  look  at  Jerufalem  that  is  above, 

*  which  is  their  mother.  Chrift  faid,  "  Neither  at  outward 
"  Jerufalem,  nor  in  the  mountain  of  Samaria  fhould  God 
"  be  worlhipped ;  but  God  fhould  be  worfhipped  in  Spirit 
*'  and  in  truth ;  for  he  is  a  Spirit,  and  fuch  he  leeks  to  v.-or- 
♦'  fhip  him,"  John  iv.  This  is  the  worfhip  that  Chrift  fet 
'  up  above  fixteen  hundred  years  ago  ;  therefore  the  idola- 
'  trous  Jews  muft  never  think  to  offer  their  outward  offer- 
'  ings  and  facrifices,   nor  fet  up  their  outward  worftiip  at 

*  Jerufalem,  in  the  holy  land  of  Canaan  more,  p'or  Chrift, 
'  by  the  offering  up  of  himfelf  once  for  all,  for  the  fins  of 
'  the  whole  world,  hath  ended  all  the  Jews  offerings,  and 
'  changed  the  priefthood,  and  the  law  by  which  it  was  made, 
''  and  hath  blotted  out  the  hand-writing  of  ordinances,  which 
'  commanded  both  priefts  and  offerings,  and  triumphed 
'  over  them.  So  he  is  the  offering  and  facrifice  of  all  the 
'  children  of  the  New  Teftam.ent,  New  Covenant,  and  hea- 
'  venly  New  Jerufalem  that  is  above.  He  is  their  Prophet 
<  that  openeth  to  them,  their  Shepherd  that  feeds  them,  their 
«  3iftiop  that  overfecs  them,  and   Prieft  that  died  fur  fhdr 


396  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  [1687 

'  fins,  and  is  rifen  for  their  juRification,  who  fanftifies  and 
'  prefents  them  to  God.  He  is  the  one  Mediator  betwixt 
'  God  and  man,  even  the  Man  Chnll  Jefus. 

'  G.  F.' 

'  Kin^^Ron.  the  9th  of  the 
'  lo'ai  month,  1687.' 

After  this  I  went  to  Guildford  to  vifit  friends  there,  and 
(laid  three  days  with  them,  and  had  a  large  and  very  good 
meeting  on  firft-day.  After  which  I  came  back  to  King- 
flon  again,  and  tarried  about  two  weeks  longer,  vihting 
hiends  and  having  meetings  amongft  them,  both  at  their 
publick  meeting-houfe  and  in  their  families.  Many  things 
I  wrote  while  I  was  at  Kingfton  ;  amongft  which  the  fol- 
lowing u'as  one  : 

OD  fo  loved  the  world,  that  he  gave  his  only  begot- 
ten Son,  that  wholoever  believeth  in  him  (hall  not 
*'  peiifli  (mark,  not  perifli)  but  have  everlalling  life,"  John 
'  iii.  16.  Again  he  faith,  "  He  that  believeth  on  the  Son 
"  of  God  haih   (mark,  hath)  everlafting  life,"  ver.   36.      So 

*  thefe  believers   have  everlafting  life   while  they  are  upon 

*  the  earth.  And  '•  he  that  believeth  on  Chrift  is  not  con- 
*'  dcmned  ;  but  he  that  believeth  not  is  condemned  already, 
*'  and  the  wrath  of  God  abideth  on  him.  He  that  heareth 
'•  Chrift's  word,  and  believeth  on  God  that  fent  him,  hath 
'•'  (mark,  hath)  everlafting  life,  and  ftiall  not  come  into  con- 
"  demnaticn  ;  but  is  paifed  from  death,"  the  death  in  the 
'  firft  Adam,  "  to  life,"  the  life  in  Chrift  the  fecond  Adam, 
'   John  v.    24.      And  that  meat  which  Chrift  doth   give  en- 

•  dureth  unto  everlafting  life,  as  in  John  vi.  27.  And  the 
'  water  that  Chrift  doth  give  fhall  be  in  him  that  drinks 
'  it  ••  a  well  or  water  Ipringing  up  into  everlafting  life," 
'John  iv.  14.  Chrift  faid  to  the  Jews,  "  Search  the  fcrip- 
"  tures,  for  in  them  ye  think  ye  have  eternal  life  ;  and  they 
*'•  are  (hey  which  teftify  of  me  :  And  ye  will  not  come  to 
''  me  that  ye  might  have  life;"  John  v.  39,  40.  Here  ye 
'  may  fee,  the  eternal  life  is  to  be  found  in  Chrift,  and  not 
«  in  the  fcriptuics  which  toilify  of  him,  the  life.  Chrift's 
t  fiieep  that  hear  his  voice,  know,  and  follow  him  ;  he  gives 
'  unto  thcrn  eternal  life,  and   they  ftiall  not  perifii,  neither 

♦  ftiall  any  phick  thctu  out  of  his  hand.      They   ftiall  not 

♦  pluck  Chrift's  ftieep,  to  whom  he  hath  given  eternal  life, 
!  put  of  his  ettrnul  hand.      Chrift  faid  to  Martha,  "   I  aii^ 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  397 

"  the  refurreftion  and  the  life;  he  that  believeth  in  me, 
'•  though  he  were  dead  (mark,  though  he  were  dead)  yet 
"  fhall  he  live  (mark,  live  though  he  were  dead)  ;  and  who- 
"  foever  liveth  and  believeth  in  me  fhall  never  die.  Be- 
'•'  lievefl;  thou  this  ?"  Martha  faid,  "  Yea,  Lord,"  John 
'  XXV.  26.  This  is  the  true  fubflantial  belief,  which  they 
'  that  believe  lliall  not  perifli,  but  have  everlafting  life. 
'  John  faith,  "  This  is  the  record,  that  God  hath  given  to 
"  us  eternal  life,  and  this  life  is  in  his  Son,"  1  John  v.  11. 
"  The  life  was  manifefted,  and  we  have  feen  it,  and  bear 
"  witnefs,  and  fhew  unto  you  that  eternal  life,  which  was 
"  with  the  Father,  and  was  manifefled  unto  us,"  1  John  i. 
'  2.  So  thefe  were  the  believers  that  had  eternal  life  in  the  Son 
'  of  God,  and  fhewed  it  unto  others.  "  He  that  hath  the 
"  Son  hath  life,"  faith  John,  "  and  he  that  hath  not  the  Son 
"  of  God  hath  not  liife,"  1  John  v.  12.  Chrifl  faith, 
*'  Every  one  that  hath  forfaken  houfes,  or  brethren,  or  fifl- 
'•'  ers,  or  father,  or  mother,  or  wife,  or  children,  or  lands 
'•  for  my  name's  fake,  fhall  receive  an  hundred  fold,  and  fhall 
"  inherit  everlafting  life,"  Matt.  xix.  29.  The  wicked 
'  that  do  not  receive  Chrift  ftiall  go  into  everlafting  punifh- 
'  ment,  but  the    righteous  into   everlafting  life.      The  true 

*  fervants  of  God  have  their  fruits  unto  holinefs,  and  their 
'  end  is  everlafting  life.  For  "  the  wages  of  fin  is  death, 
*'  but  the  gift  of  God  is  everlafting  life,  through  Jefus  Chrift 
"  our  Lord."  Such  have  a  building  of  God,  an  houfe  not 
'  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens.  Therefore  I  de- 
'  fire  that  God's  people  may  endure  all  things,  that  they 
'  may  obtain  this  falvation  which  is  in  Chrift  Jefus,  with 
'  eternal  glory.  For  Chrift,  being  made  perfed,  became 
'  the  author  of  eternal  falvation  to  all  them  that  obey  him. 
'  This  eternal  falvation  is  above  an  external  falvation ;  for 
'  they  come  to  receive  an  eternal  inheritance,  and  live  in  the 
'  pofleflTion  of  the  everlafting  gofpel  of  joy,  comfort,  peace, 

*  and  falvation,  having  everlafting  life  m  Chrift   Jefus. 

•  G.   F.' 
'•  Kingfton,  the  6th  of  the 
'   11th  month,    1687.' 

Another  paper  I  wrote  concerning  the  ftone  fpokcn  of  by 
Daniel,  chap.  ii.  which  became  a  great  mountain  and  filled 
the  whole  earth,  flrewing  '  That  thereby  was  fet  forth  the 
5  li:ingdom  and  power  of  Chrift.* 


398  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [16S7 

*  ^^r^^EN  Chrift,  the  flone  that  became  a  great  moun- 
'  V  V  tain,  and  filled  the  whole  earth,  had  broke  to  pie- 
'  ces  the  head  of  gold,  the  breaft  of  fiiver,  the  belly  of  brafs, 
'  the  legs  of  iron,  and  the  feet  part  iron  part  clay,  which 

*  were  the  four  monarchies,  the  Babylonian  and  Mede,  the 

*  Grecian,  and  the  Roman,  and  had  ended  the  outward 
'  Jews  typical  kingdom,  Daniel  faith,  "  In  the  days  of  thefe 
"kings  Ihall  the  God  of  heaven  fet  up  a  kingdom  which 
♦'  fhall  never  be  dellroyed,"  Dan.  ii.  44.  Chrifl  faith, 
"  All  pov/er  is  given  unto  me  in  heaven  and  in  earth," 
'  Matth.  xxviii.  18.  And  "  My  kingdom  is  not  of  this 
"  world,"  John  xviii.  36.  "  Chrifl  is  the  image  of  the  in- 
"  vifible  God,  the  firfl-born  of  every  creature ;  for  by  him 
"  were  all  things  created  that  are  in  heaven  and  that  are  in 
*'  earth,  vifible  and  invifible,  whether  they  be  thrones,  or 
'•  dominions,  or  principalities,  or  powers  ;  all  things  were 
"  created  by  him  and  for  him,  and  he  is  before  all  things, 
^'  and  by  him  all  things  confift,"   Col.  xv.    16,    17.      Here 

*  Ye  may  fee  all  things  confift  by  jefus  Chrift,  and  all 
'  things  were  created  by  Chrift  and  for  him,  whether  they 
'  be  things  in  heaven  or  things  in  earth,  vifible  or  invifible  ; 
'  yea  thrones,  dominions,  principalities,  or  powers,  thefe 
'  were  all  created  by  him  and  for  him.  Chrift  is  "  King 
"  of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords,"  Rev.  xix.  16.  The  "  Prince 
"  of  the  kings  of  the  earth,"  Chap.  i.  5.      Out  of  his  mouth 

*  goes  a  fharp  fword,  with  which  he  fliall  fmite  the  nations, 

*  and  he  fhall  rule  them  with  a  rod  of  iron ;  as  the  velfel  of 
'  a  potter  fhall  they  be  daftied  in  pieces  who  do  not  obey 
'  him,  the  '•  King  of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords."  This  is 
'  Chrift,  who  faith,  "  I  am  Alpha  and  Omega,  the  Begin- 
'•'  ning  and  the  Ending,  the  Firft  and  the  Laft;"  fo  he  is 
'  over  all  nations,   and  above  them  all.      We  muft  under- 

*  ftand  this  rod  of  iron,  by  which  Chrift  doth  rule  the  na- 

*  tions,  is  a  figurative  fpeech  of  Chrift  who  is  afcended  into 

*  heaven,  and  is  at  the  right  hand  of  God.  All  power  in 
'  heaven  and  earth  is  given  unto  him,  and  all  things  were 
'  created  by  him  and  for  him  :  fo  then  they  are  Chrift's, 
'  and  he  hath  power  over  all  things;  for  all  are  his.  So,  as 
'  the  fcriptnre  faith,  "  By  me  kings  reign  and  princes  de- 
•■'•■  cree  iaftice,"  Prov.  viii.  15.  But  if  they  abufe  his  power 
'  and  do  not  do  juftice,  as  is  decreed  by  Chrift,  the  "  King 
'•  of  kings  and  Lord  of  lords,  the  Firft  and  the  Laft,"  they 
■  muft  feel  the  weight  of  his  rod  of  iron,  by  which  he  will 
'  rule  fuch  as  abufe  his  power.     That  is  decreed  by  him.. 


1687]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  399 

*  who  hath  all  power  in  heaven  and  earth  given  to  him, 
'  and  rules  in  the  kingdoms  of  men. 

■  G.  F.' 
*  Kingfton,   the  1  ith 
'  month,  1687/ 

Several  other  things  I  wrote  while  I  was  at  Kingdon  ; 
for  my  fpirit  being  continually  exercifed  towards  God,  I 
had  many  precious  openings  of  divine  matters ;  and  divers 
places  of  fcripture,  both  in  the  Old  Teftament  and  in  the 
New,  relating  to  the  ftate  of  regeneration  and  fanClification, 
Sec.  were  brought  to  my  remembrance  by  the  Holy  Spirit ; 
fome  of  which  I  committed  to  writing,  as  followeth  : 

'  nr^HEY  that  touched  the  dead  were  unclean,  and  vvere 
'    X    to  be  cleanfed  by  the  water  of  purification,  Numb. 

*  xix.  And  they  which  touch  the  dead  do6lrines  or  faiths, 
'  and  let  them  in,  burden  the  pure,  defile  and  make  them- 

*  felves  unclean,  until  the  fpring  of  the  water  of  the  Word 
'  do  arife  and  waih  and  clean  them ;  for  all  the  d-ad  in 
'  Adam  in  the  fall  are  unclean,  and  they  muft  be  wafhed 

*  by  Chrift,  in  his  blood  and  water  of  life,  who  quickeneth 

*  and  makes  alive. 

'  A  dwarf  might  not  come  near  to  offer  upon  God's  al- 
'  tar ;  but  he  might  eat  of  the  holy  bread,  that  he  might 
'  gVow,  Lev.  xxi.  20,  &c.  So  the  new-born  babes  may  eat 
'  of  the  milk  of  the  Word,  that  they  may  grow  thereby  and 

*  increafe.  He  that  had  any  blemifh  might  not  come  near 
'  to  offer  upon  God's  altar;  neither  might  any  thing  be  of- 
'  fered  upon  God's  altar  that  had  any  blemifh,  or  vv^as  un~ 
'  clean,  Lev.  xxi.  And  it  is  faid,  "  The  ungodly  fliall  not 
"  ftand  in  the  judgment,  nor  linners  in  the  congregation  of 
"  the  righteous,"  Pfa.  i.  5.  But  God  fiandeth  in  the  con- 
'  gregation  of  the  mighty,'  Pfal.  Ixxxii.  1. 

'  The  camp  of  God  was  to  be  kept  clean  and  holy.    That 

*  which  was  unclean,  or  defiled,  was  to  be  kept  .out  of  God's 
'  camp  in  the  Old  Tcflament.  And  in  the  New  Tefla- 
'  ment,  all  that  is  defiled  and  unclean  muft  be  kept  out  of 
'  God's  kingdom,  the  new  and  heavenly  Jeriiialem  that  is 
'  from  above.  All  was  to  pafs  through  the  fire  (even  of 
'  thofe  things  that  would  bear  the  fire)  and  to  be  purified 

*  by  fire  and  water,  before  the  people  might  come  into 
'  God's  camp,  Numb.  xxxi.  So  all  muft  be  circumcifed, 
'  and  baptized  with  the  Holy  Ghoft  and  firc^  cleaiifed  with 


40O'  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1687 

*  the  blood  of  Chrift,  and  waflied  with  the  water  of  the 
'  Word,  before  they  come  into  the  kingdom  of  God,  into 
'  heavenly  Jerufalem. 

'  The  apoftle  Paul  faith,  "  We  know  that  if  our  earthly 
"  houfe  of  this  tabernacle  were  dilTolved,  we  have  a  build- 
"  ing  of  God,  a  houfe  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the 
'•  heavens.  For  in  this  we  groan,  earneftly  deliring  to  be 
'•  clothed  upon  with  our  houfe  which  is  from  heaven,  that 
"  mortality  mi^ht  be  fwallowedup  of  life,"  2  Cor.  v.  1,  2,  4. 
'  Htre  is  "  [WE  in  the  earthly  houfe  of  this  tabernacle/'] 
'  which  [WE]  are  they  that  have  received  Chrift,  are 
'  become  the  Ions  of  God,  new  creatures,  and  children  of 
'  the  light,  that  believe  in  Chrift's  light;  Who  have  an  eter- 
'  nal  houfe  in  the  heavens,  where  mortality  is  {"wallowed  up 
'  of  life,  in  which  houfe  from  heaven  they  will  not  groan. 

'  Peter  faid,  "  I  think  it  meet,  as  long  as  I  am  in  this 
"  tabernacle,  to  ftir  you  up  by  putting  you  in  remem- 
"  brance,  knowing  that  (hortly  I  muft  put  off  this  my  ta- 
"  bernacle,  even  as  our  Lord  Jcfus  Chrilt  hath  fliewed  me," 
'  2  Pet.  i.  13,  14.  Peter  knew  he  muft  put  off^  this  taber- 
'  nacle  ftiortly  :  but  as  long  as  he  was  in  it,  he  did  ftir  up 
'  the  faints  to  their  duty  in  holinefs,  that  they  might  re- 
■  member  it  after  he  was  deceafed. 

'  Paul  faith,  "  The  firft  man  is  of  the  earth,  earthly," 
'-  (mark,  earthly)  1  Cor.  xv.  47.  "  And  as  we  have  borne 
'•'  the  image  of  the  earthly,  we  fhall  alfo  bear  the  image  of  the 
"  heavenly,"  (mark,  the  heavenly)  ver.  49.  And-  "  we 
"  have  this  treafure  in  earthen  veiTcls,"  &c.  2  Cor.  iv,  7. 
"  And  I  live,"  faid  he,  "  yet  not  I,  but  Chrift  liveth  in  me," 
'  Gal.  ii.   20.   who  is  the  life  of  all  God's  people. 

'  Chrift  faid  to  the  Jews,  "  That  the  dead  are  raifed,  even 
"  Mofes  ihewed  at  the  bufh,  when  he  calleth  the  Lord,  the 
"  God  of  Abraham,  and  the  God  of  Ifaac,  and  the  God  of 
"  Jacob;  for  he  is  not  the  God  of  the  dead,  but  of  the  liv- 
"  ing,  for  all  live  unto  him,"  Luke  xx,  37,  38.  So  "  none 
"  of  us  liveth  to  himfclf,  and  no  man  dieth  to  himfclf;  for 
"  whether  we  live,  we  live  unto  the  Lord,  and  whether  we 
"  die,  we  die  unto  the  Lord.  Whether  we  live  therefore  or 
"  die  we  are  the  Lord's.  For  to  this  end  Chrift  both  died 
"  and  rofe,  that  he  might  be  Lord  both  of  the  dead  and  liv- 
"  ing,"   Rom.  xiv.   7,   8,   9.      For  ail  died  in  Adam:    and 

•  Chrift  by  the  grace  of  God  tafted  death  for  every  man,  that 
'  they  might  come  out  of  the  death  in  Adam  to  the  eternal 
'  life  in  jefus    Chrift:   who  is  alfo  a  quickening  fpirit ;  for 


1687]  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  401 

*  as  in  Adam  all  died,  even  fo  in  Chrifl  Hiall  all  be  made 

*  alive.  So  Chrift  that  died  and  role  again,  is  Lord  both  of 
'  the  living  and  of  the  dead  ;  for  the  living  live  to  the  Lord, 
'  and  die  in  him,  and  are  blelFed. 

'  Ail  Chriftendom  fay,  that  they  believe  in  God  and  in 

*  Chrift,  and  that  they  believe  Mofesand  the  prophets,  and 
'  preach  Chrift,  Mofes,  and  the  prophets  ;  lo  their  words 
'  and  vvritings  are  preached  and  printed,  and  ye  fay  ye  be- 
'  lieve  them.  But  what  life  do  ye  live  ?  Are  ye  through 
'  the  law  dead  to  the  law,  that  ye  may  live  unto  God  ?   Are 

*  ye  crucified  with  Chrifl  ?  Doth  Chrift  live  in  you?  Is 
'  the  life  that  ye  now  live  in  the  flefli  by  the  faith  of  the  Son 
'  of  God,  and  ye  do  not  live,  but  Chrift  liveth  in  you, 
'  who  gave  himfelf  for  you?  Ls  this  your  prefent  life?  for 
'■  the  juft  live  by  the  faith"  which  Chrift  is  the  Author  and 
'  Fi niftier  of;  by  which  holy,  divine,  precious  faith  they 
'  have  victory  over  that  which  is  vile,  unholy,  and  not  di- 
'  vine  ;  and  in  this  faith  they  pleafe  God,  and  have  accefs 
'  lo  God  and  his  Son,  who  fulfilleth  the  law  and  the  pro- 
'  phets.  For  the  law  and  the  prophets  were  until  John, 
'  and  lince  that  the  kingdom  of  God  hath  been  preached, 
'  and  men  prefs  into  it ;  and  the  leaft  in  the  kingdom  of  God 
'  is  greater  than  John,  though  he  v/as  the  greateft  prophet 
'  born  of  a  woman.  See  whether  ye  are  in  the  kingdom 
'  that  ftands  in  peace  and  righteoufnefs  and  joy  in  the  Holy 
'  Ghoft,  or  not.  Chrift,  the  image  of  the  invifible  God, 
'  the  fiVft-born  of  every  creature,  was  before  any  creature ; 
'  for  by  him  were  all  things  created  that  are  in  heaven  and  in 
'  the  earth,  vifible  or  inviiible,  whether  they  be  thrones,  or 
'  dominions,  or  principalities,  or  powers,  "  all  things  were 
"  created  by  him  and  for  him,  and  he  was  before  all  things, 
"  and  by  him  all  things  confift  :  and  he  is  the  head  of  the 
*•'  body,  the  church,  and  is  the  beginning,  the  firft-bora 
"  irom  the  dead."  Here  ye  may  fee  that  all  things  were 
•^  made  by  Chrift  Jefus,  and  all  things  were  created  for 
'  Chrift  Jcfus,  and  by  him  all  thmgs  confift  and  have  their 
'  being,  wlio  is  the  firft-born  from  the  dead,  and  dieth  no 
'  more.  It  plcafed  the  Father  that  in  him  all  fulnefs  fhould 
'  dwell,  and  by  Chrift  to  reconcile  all  things  unto  himfelf, 
'  whether  they  be  things  in  heaven  or  things  in  the  earth. 
"  In  him  are  hid  all  the  treafures  of  wifdotn  and  knowledge," 
'  who  is  the  head  of  all  principality  and  power  ;  for  "  all 
"  power  in  heaven  and  earth  is  given  to  him,"  the  ftrft-born 
'  of  every  creature,  and  the  firft-born  from  the  dead,  who 

\'  O  L .     II .  .  3    K 


402  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  [leS; 

liveth  for  evermore  in  his  power  over  all,  the  Lamb  flain 
from  the  foundation  of  the  world.  While  the  world's  fpi- 
rit  ruJes  in  men's  hearts,  they  do  not  know  Chrift,  nor 
the  beginning  nor  ending  of  the  work  of  God.  Chrift  was 
outwardly  crucified  and  llain  without  the  gates  of  Jerufa- 
lem  by  the  difobcdient  Jews ;  and  they  that  hate  the  light 
of  Chrift,  diibbey  his  gofpel,  quench  his  Spirit,  and  are 
erred  from  his  faith,  "  crucify  to  themfelves  Chrift  afrefli." 
So  Adam  and  Eve,  and  th«?ir  children  that  difobeyed 
God,  did  flay  the  Lamb  ;  the  blind  Jews,  that  difobeyed 
God,  crucified  Chrift  Jefus  ;  and  the  outward  Chriftians, 
that  live  and  walk  not  in  Chrift,  but  in  fmand  evil,  though 
they  make  an  outward  profeffion  of  Chrift,  yet  crucify  to 
themfelves  Chrift  afrefli.  As  to  Chrift  himfelf,  he  is  "af- 
'  cended  far  above  all  principalities,  thrones,  powers,  and 
'dominions;"  fo  that  they  cannot  put  him  to  death,  or 
crucify  him  any  more,  as  to  himfelf:  but  what  the  killers, 
crucifiers,  and  perfecutors  do  now  upon  the  earth,  is 
againft  Chrift  in  themfelves,  and  in  his  members  ;  as 
Chrift  laid  to  Saul,  "  Why  perfecuteft  thou  me  ?"  Ads 
ix.  4.  For  what  is  done  to  his  members,  Chrift  takes  as 
done  to  himfelf.  Matth.  xxv.  40,  and  45.  And  they  that 
did  not  vifit  Chrift,  but  perfecuted  him  in  his  members, 
perfecuted  Chrift  in  themfelves  firft. 
'  The  ferpent,  that  enemy  to  man  and  woman,  the  def- 
troyer,  the  god  of  the  world,  and  prince  of  the  air,  that 
ruleth  in  the  hearts  of  the  difobedient,  got  in  by  difubedi- 
ence.  But  Chrift  bruifes  his  head,  breaketh  his  power  to 
pieces,  and  deftroys  the  devil  and  iiis  works  ;  and  through 
death  deftroys  death,  and  the  devil,  the  power  of  death. 
So  Chrift,  the  light  and  life,  hath  all  power  in  heaven  and 
earth  ;  and  openeth  the  prifon  doors,  and  the  eyes  of  the 
blind,  and  takes  captive  him  that  hath  led  into  captivity, 
and  gives  gifts  unto  men.  So  Chrift  bindeth  the  ftrong 
man  of  fin,  and  fpoils  his  goods,  and  calls  him  out ;  Hal- 
lelujah !  For  the  ftrong  man  of  fin  is  the  god  of  the  world, 
and  his  houfe  is  that  wiiole  world  that  lieth  in  wickednefs. 
And  this  God  of  the  world  hath  kept  his  houfe,  and  his 
goods  have  been  in  peace  :  until  a  ftronger  than  he  come, 
and  binds,  and  cafts  him  out :  and  then  deftroys  him  and 
his  goods.  So  Chrift,  the  Son  of  God,  who  is  ftronger 
than  the  devil,  having  deftroyed  the  devil  and  his  works, 
fctteth  up  his  own  houfe.  All  believers  in  the  light  are 
the  children  of  light,  are  of  the  Son  of  God's  Ipiritual 


i587]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  493 

*  houfe,  and  the  Son  of  God  is  over  his  houfe  for  evermore  : 

*  glory  to  God  in  the  higheft,  through  Jefus  Chrift,  Amen! 

'  God  fpake  by  the  mouth  of  his  holy  prophets  corxcern- 

*  ing  Chrift  Jefus,  his  Son,  the  holy  One:  fo  they  were  ho- 
'  ly  men,  and  not  unholy,  that  God  fpake  by.  All  that 
'  name  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus   Chrift,  are  to  depart 

*  from  iniquity. 

'  G.  F.' 
*  Kingflon  upon  Thames,  the 
*  11th  month,   1687.' 

I  returned  to  London  towards  the  latter  end  of  the  ele- 
venth month  1687,  vifiting  friends  in  the  way  at  Chifwick 
and  Hammerfmith,  where  I  had  two  meetings,  one  upon  a 
feaft-day,  and  the  other  on  occafion  of  a  marriage  ;  at  which 
were  many  people  of  other  denominations,  amongil  whom  I 
had  a  very  feafonable  opportunity  of  opening  the  way  of 
truth. 

Being  come  to  London,  I  vifited  meetings  in  and  about 
the  city,  as  the  Lord  led  me !  in  whofe  fervice  I  continued 
labouring  till  the  middle  of  the  firft-month  1687-8.  At 
which  time  I  went  towards  Enfield,  and  vifited  friends  there 
and  thereabouts,  and  at  Barnet,  Waltham-Abbey,  and 
other  places ;  where  I  had  many  meetings,  and  very  good 
fervice,  in  which  I  fpent  feveral  weeks.  1  then  returned  to 
London,  where  I  continued  labouring  in  the  work  of  the 
gofpel  till  after  the  yearly  meeting,  which  this  year  was 
about  the  beginning  of  the  fourth  month.  A  precious  meet- 
ing it  was.  A  very  refrefliing  feafon  friends  had  together, 
the  Lord  vouchfafing  to  honour  our  aflemblies  with  his  liv- 
ing glorious  prefence  in  a  very  plentiful  manner.  At  the 
conclufion  of  the  meeting  I  felt  a  concern  upon  my  fpirit  to 
give  forth  the  following  paper,  to  be  difperfed  amongil 
friends. 

*  A  LL  you  believers  in  the  light,  that  are  become  chil- 
'  Jr\.  dren  of  the  light,  walk  as  children  of  the  light,  and 

*  of  the  day  of  Chrift,  as  a  city  let  on  a  hill,  that  cannot  be 
'  hid.      Let  your  light  fo  fhine,  that* people  may  fee  your 

*  good  works,  and  glorify  your  Father,  which  is  in  heaven. 
'  For  a  good  tree  bringetli  forth  good  fruit ;  therefore  be  ye 

*  trees  of  righteoufnefs,  the  planting  of  tlis  Lord,  having 
'  fruits  unto  holinefs ;  and  then  year  end  will  be  everlafting 

*  life.     Such  are  the  v/ells  and  cifterns  that  hold  the  living 

a  ^  2 


404  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [16S7 

'  water,  which  fprings  up  in  tliein  to  eternal  hfe.      Ye  may 

*  all  drink  water  out  of  your  own  cificrns,  running  water 

*  out  of  your  own  wells  ;  and  eat  every  one  of  his  own  fig- 
'  tree,  and  of  his  own  vme ;   havmg  fait  every  one  in  your- 

*  feives,   to  feafon  every  one's  facrifice,   acceptable  to  God 

*  by  Jefus  Chrift;   like  wife  virgins,   that  have  oil  in  their 

*  lamps,  follow  the  Lamb,  and  enter  in  vv^ith  the  bride- 
'  groom.  Now  is  the  time  to  labour,  while  it  is  day  (yea, 
'  the  day  of  Chrifl)  to  ftir  up  every  one's  pure  mind,  the 

*  gift  of  God  that  is  in  them  ;  and  to  improve  your  talents, 
'  that  Chrift  haih  afforded  you,  that  ye  may  profit;  and  to 
'  walk  every  one  according  to  the  meafure  that  Chrift  hath 

*  given  you  ;  for  "  the  manifeftation  of  the  Spirit  of  God  is 
'•  given  to  every  one  to  profit  witltal."     Conhder  what  you 

*  have  profited  in  fpiritual  and  heavenly  things,   with  the 

*  heavenly  Spirit  cf  God.  Be  not  like  the  wicked  and 
'  flothful,  that  hid  his  talent ;  from  whom  it  was  taken,  and 

*  he  caft  into  utter  darknefs.  A  dvv'arf,  or  one  that  had  any 
'  blemifti,  was  not  to  come  nigh  to  offer  upon  God's  altar; 

*  therefore  mind  the  word  of  wifdom.  to  keep  you  out  of 
'  that   which   will  corrupt  and  blemifh  you ;   and  that  ye 

*  may  grow  in  grace,  in  faith,  and  in  the  knowledge  of  our 

*  Lord  Jefus  Chrift :  and  feeding  upon  the  milk  of  the 
'  word,  may  grow  by  it,  that  ye  may  not  be  dwarfs ;  and  fo 

■  offer  your  Ipirituai  facrifice  upon  God's  holy  altar.  J'or 
'  the  field  or  vineyard  of  the  flothful  grows  over  with  thorns 
'  and  nettles,  and  his  walls  go  down.      Such  are  they  that 

*  are   not   diligent  in   the   Spirit  of  God,   and  the  power, 

*  which  is  the  wall,  a  fure  fence.  The  Spirit  of  God  will 
'  weed  out  all  thorns,  thiftles,  and  nettles  out  of  the  vine- 
'  yard  of  the  heart.      And  you  that  are  keepers  of  others 

*  vineyards,   fee  that  you  keep  your  own  vineyards  clean 

*  with  the  Spirit  and  power  of  Chrift.  Sandify  yourfelves, 
'  and  fanftify  the  Lord  in  your  hearts,  that  ye  may  be  a 
'  holy  people  to  the  Lord,  who  faith  ;  "  Be  ye  holy,  for  I 
"  am    holy  ;"   that   ye    may    be    the   holy  members  of  the 

*  church  of  Chrift,  that  is  clothed  with  the  fun,  and  hath 
'  the  moon  under  her  feet;  the  changeable  world,  with  all 
'  her  changeable  woriliips,  religions,  churches,  and  teachers. 
'  Be  ye  new  and  heavenly  jcrufalem's  children;  for  new 
'  and  heavenly  Jerufalem,  that  is  above,  is  the  mother  of 
'  all  the  children  of  light,  that  are  born  of  the  Spn-it.    Thefe 

*  are  they  that  have  been  perfecuted.  and  have  fuffered  by 
^  the  falfe  church,  m^ftcry  Babylon,  the  mother  of  harlots. 


i688]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  405 

*  And  now  all  heavenly  Jemfalem's  and  Sion's  children, 

*  that  are  from  above,  labour  in  the  gofpel,  the  power  of 

*  God,  the  feed  in  which  all  nations,  and  all  the  families'of 

*  the  earth  are  bleHed ;  which  feed,  Chrift,  bruifes  the  fer- 
'  pent's  head,  d  .'ftroys  the  devi!  and  his  works,  and  over- 
'  comes  the  whore,  the  falfc  church,  the  bead,  and  the  falfe 

*  prophet.      He  takes  away  the  curfe,  and  the  vail  that  is 

*  ipread  over  all  nations,  and  over  all  the  families  of  the 
'  earth,  and  brinies  the  bleffing  upon  all  (if  they  will  receive 
'  it)  faying,  "  In  thy  feed  Ihall  all  nations  and  ail  the  fa- 
"  milies  of  the  earth  be  blelfed."  This  is  the  gofpel  of 
'  God  preached  to  Abraham,  before  Mofes  wrote  his  five 
'  books  ;  and  was  preached  in  the  apoftles  days,  and  is  now 

*  preached  again;  which  brings  life  and  immortality  to  light; 
'  and  is  the  gofpel  of  peace,  life,  and  falvation  to  every  one 

*  that  believes  it.  So  all  nations,  all  the  families  of  the 
'  earth  muft  be  in  Chrift,  the  feed,  if  they  be  bleflfed,  and 
'  be  partakers  of  the  bleffing  in  the  feed.  This  gofpel  was 
'  revealed  by  Chrift  to  his  apoftles,  who  preached  it;  which 
'  is  not  of  man,    nor  from  man.      Now,   God  and  Chrift 

*  hath  revealed  the  fame  gofpel  unto  me,  and  many  others 
'  in  this  age  (I  fay  the  gofpel,  and  the  feed,   in  which  all 

*  nations  •and  families  of  the  earth  are  blelfed  ;)  in  which 

*  gofpel  I  have  laboured,  and  do  labour,  that  all  may  come 
'  into  this  blefied  feed,  Chrift,  who  bruifes  the  head  of  the 
'  ferpent,  that  in  it  they  might  have  peace  with  God.  This 
'  everlafting  gofpel  is   preached  again  to  them  that  dwell 

*  r.pon  the  earth  ;   and  they  that  believe  it,  and  receive  it, 

*  receive  the  bleffing,  the  peace,  joy,  and  comfort  of  it,  the 

*  ftability  in  it,  and  the  life  and  immortality  which  it  brings 
'  to  light  in  them  and  to  them.  Such  can  praife  the  ever- 
'  lafting  God  in  his  everlafting  gofpel. 

'  And  friends,  all  feek  the  peace  and  good  of  all  in  Chrift: 
'  for  truth  makes  no  Cains,  Corahs,  Balaams,  nor  JudaiTes; 
'  for  they  come  to  be  fuch,  that  go  out  of  the  peaceable 
'  truth.  Therefore  u\alk  in  the  peaceable  truth,  and  fpeak 
'  the  truth  in  the  love  of  it.  as  it  is  in  Jefus. 

'  G.  F.- 

Some  time  after  the  yearly  meeting  I  went  to  my  fon 
Mead's  in  Eflex,  and  abode  fome  weeks;  often  vifiting 
friends  meetings  near,  and  fometimes  at  Barking.  After  I 
had  been  awhile  there,  I  went  to  vifit  friends  at  Waltham- 
Ahh^y,  Hodfdon,  Enfield,   South-ftrcet,  Ford-Green,  an4 


4o6  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [i68g 

Winchmore-hill  ;  where  I  had  fevtral  very  ferviceable 
Thectings  ;  the  Lord  opening  many  deep  and  weighty 
things  through  me,  for  the  informing  the  underftandmgs  of 
inquirers,  and  buHding  up  ihofe  that  were  gathered  into  the 
truth,  and  eft.iblirhing  them  therein. 

In  the  feventh  month  I  returned  to  London,  having 
been  near  three  months  in  "he  country  for  my  health's  lake, 
which  was  very  much  impaired  ;  fo  that  I  was  hardly  able 
to  (lay  in  a  meeting  the  whole  time,  and  often  after  a  meet- 
ing was  fain  to  lie  down  upon  a  bed.  Yet  did  not  my  weak- 
nefs  of  body  take  me  off  from  the  fervice  of  the  Lord  ;  but  I 
continued  to  labour  in  and  out  of  meetings  in  the  work 
of  the  Lord,  as  he  gave  me  opportunity  and  ability. 

I  had  not  been  long  in  London,  before  a  great  weight 
came  upon  me,  and  a  fight  the  Lord  gave  me  of  the  great 
buftles  and  troubles,  revolution  and  change,  which  loon 
after  came  to  pafs.  In  the  fenfe  whereof,  and  in  the  mov- 
ings  of  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord,  I  wrote,  "  A  general  epiftle 
*'  to  friends,  to  forewarn  them  of  the  approaching  florm  ; 
"  that  they  might  ail  retire  to  the  Lord,  in  whom  fafety  is," 
as  foUoweth : 

*  1\  yff"Y  dear  friends  and  brethren  every  where,  Who  have 

*  IV JL  received  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  to  whom  he  has  given 
'  power  to  become  his  fons  and  daughters  ;  in  him  ye  have 
'  lite  and  peace,  and  in  his  everlafliing  kingdom,  that  is  an 
'  eflablifhed  kingdom,  and  cannot  be  Ihaken,  but  is  over  all 

*  the  world,  and  (lands  in  his  pow^er,  and  in  righteoufnefs 

*  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghoft,  into  which  no  unrighteouf- 
'  ncfs,  nor  the  foul  unclean  fpirit  of  the  devil  in  his  inftru- 
'  ments  can  enter.  Dear  friends  and  brethren,  every  one  in 
'  the  faith  of  Jefus,  (land  in  his  power,  who  has  all  power 
'  in  heaven  and  earth  given  to  him,  and  will  "  rule  the  na- 
"  tions  v/ith  his  rod  of  iron,  and  dafh  them  to  pieces  like  a 
"  potter's  vefTcl,"  that  are  not  fubje6l  and  obedient  to  his 
'  power  :  whofe  voice  will  fhake  the  heavens,  and  the  earth, 
'  that  that  which  may  be  (haken  may  be  removed,  and  that 
'  which  cannot  be  (haken  may  appear.  Stand  in  him  ;  and 
'  all  things  fiiall  work  together  for  good  to  them  that  Iov« 
'  him. 

'  And  now,  dear  friends  and  brethren,  though  thefe 
'  waves,  florms,  and  tempeRs  be  in  the  world,  yet  you  may  all 
'  appear  the  hiirmlels  and  innoc -nt  lambs  of  Chrid,  walking 
'  in  his  peacciiblc  truth,  and  keeping  iu  the  Word  of  pow-. 


1688]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  407 

*  er,  wifdom,  and  patience  ;  and  this  Word  will  keep  you 
'  in  the  day  of  trials  and  temptations,  that  will  come  upon 
'  the  whole  world,  to  try  them  that  dwell  upon  the  eax-th. 
'  For  the  Word  of  God  was  before  the  world,  and  all 
'  things  were  made  by  it :  it  is  a  tried  Word,  which  gave 
'  God's  people  in  all  ages  wifdom,  power,  and  patience. 
'  Therefore  let  your  dwelling  and  walking  be  in  Chrill 
'  Jefus,  who  is  called  the  Word  of  God ;  and  in  his  power, 
'  which  is  over  all.  Set  your  afFeftions  on  things  that  are 
'  above,  where  Chrift  fits  at  the  right  hand  of  God  (mark) 
'  on  thofe  things  which  are  above,  where  Chrift  fits ;  not 
'  thofe  things  that  are  below,  which  will  change  and  pafs 
'  away.  Blelfed  be  the  Lord  God,  who  by  his  eternal  arm 
'  and  power  hath  gathered  a  people  to  himfelf,  and  hath 
'  preferved  his  faithful  to  himfelf  through  many  troubles, 
'  trials,  and  temptations  :  his  power  and  feed,  Chrift,  is  over 
'  all,  and  in  him  ye  have  life  and  peace  with  God.  There- 
'  fore  in  him  all  ftand,  and  fee  your  falvation,  who  is  firft 
'  and  laft,  and  the  Amen.  God  Almighty  preferve  and 
'  keep  you  all  in  him,  your  ark  and  fan6luary ;  for  in  him 
'  you  are  fafe  over  all  floods,  ftorrns,  and  tempcfts  :  for  he 
'  was  before  they  were :  and  will  be  when  they  are  all  gone. 

'  G.  f: 

•  London,  the  17th  of  the 
'  8th  month,  1688.' 

About  this  time  great  exercife  and  weights  came  upon 
me  (as  had  ufually  done  before  great  revolutions  and  chan- 
ges of  government)  and  my  ftrength  departed  from  me  ;  fo 
that  I  reeled,  and  was  ready  to  fall  as  1  went  along  the 
ftreets ;  and  at  len;rth  I  could  not  go  abroad  at  all,  1  Vias 
lo  weak  for  a  pretty  while ;  till  I  felt  the  power  of  the  Lord 
to  fpring  over  all,  and  had  received  an  aifurance  from  him, 
that  he  would  preferve  his  iaithful  people  to  himfelf  through 
all. 

In  the  time  that  I  kept  within,  I  wrote  a  paper,  fliewing.; 
"  Mofes,  as  a  fervant,  was  faithful  in  all  his  houfe,  in  the. 
'•'  Old  Teftament ;  and  Chrift,  as  a  Son,  is  over  his  houfc, 
*'  in  the  New  Teftament." 

'  ^  I  ^HE  houfe  of  Ifrael  was  called  God's  vineyard,  in 
'  JL  Ifa.  v.  7.  and  all  the  Ifraelites  were  called  the  houlc 
'  of  Ifrael.  Ifrael  fignifics,  "  a  prince  with  God,  and  a 
'■'  prevailer  with  men/'  Gen.  xxxii.  28.     When  Peter  preach- 


4o8  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [ir,83 

*  ed  Chrift  to  the  houfe  of  Ifracl,  he  faid ;  "  Let  aJl  the 
*'  houl'e  of  Ifrael  know  aiTarediv,  that  God  hath  made  the 
"  fame  Jefus,  whom  ye  have  crucified,  both  Lord  and 
"  Chnfl,"  Afts  ii    36.      So  they  were  all  called   the  houie 

*  of  Ifrael.  And  it  is  faid,  "  Mofes  was  faithful  in  all  his 
"  houfe  (to  wit,  this  houfe  of  Ifrael)  as  a  fervant ;  for  a  tef- 
"  timor.y  of  thofe  things  which  were  to  be  Ipoken  after :  but 
"  Chrill,  as  a  fon,  over  his  own  heufe;  which  houfe  are 
"  we,  if  we  hold  faft  the  confidence,  and  the  rejoicing  of  the 
"  hope  firm  unto  the  end,"   Hebr.  iii.  5.  6.      Here  it  is  ma- 

*  nilcft,  that  Mofes  was  fiiithful  in  all  his  houfe,  as  a  fervant, 
'  viz.  in  the  houfe  of  Ifrael,  in  the  Old  Teflament  :  but 
'  Chrift  jefuS;  the  Son  of  God,  is  over  his  houfe  in  his 
'  New  Teftament  and  covenant;  and  all  his  true  believers 
'  are  of  his  houfe.  The  apoftie  tells  the  Ephcfians  (who 
'  were  a  church  of  Chrift)  they  were  "  fellow-citizens  with 
''the  !ainfe«.  and  of  the  houfehold  of  God,"  Eph.  ii.  ig. 
'  And  the  faints  are  called  "  the  houfehold  of  faith,"  Gal, 
'  vi.  10.  Peter,  in  his  general  epiftle,  tells  the  church  of 
'  Chrift,  they  were  "  a  chofen  generation,  a  royal  prieft- 
'•  hood,  a  holy  nation,  a  peculiar  people,"  1  Pet.  ii.  g. 
'  And  that  as  lively  ftones,  they  vi^ere  built  up  "  a  fpiritual 
"  houfe,  an  holy  priefthood,  to  offer  up  fpiritual  facrifices, 
"  acceptable  to  God  by  Jefus  Chrift,"  ver.  5.  The  apoftle 
'  faith  to  the  church  of  Chrift  at  Corinth ;  "  If  our  earthly 
"  houfe  of  this  tabei-'nacle  were  diilolved,  we  have  a  build- 
"  ing  ol  God.  an  houfe  not  made  v/ith  hands,  eternal  in  the 
"heavens,"  2  Cor.  v.  i.  And  Chrift  laid  to  his  difciples ; 
"  Let  not  your  hearts  be  troubled  :  ye  believe  in  God,  i)e- 
"  lieve  alfo  in  me.  In  my  Father's  houfe  are  many  man- 
"  fions  ;  (a  manfion  is  a  dwelling  or  abiding-place)  if  it 
"  were  uoi  fo,  I  would  have  told  you.  I  go  to  prepare  a 
"  place  for  you.  And  if  I  go  and  prepare  a  place  for  you, 
"  I  will  come  again,  and  receive  you  unto  myfelf,  that 
'•  where  I  am,  there  ye  may  be  alfo,"  John  xiv.  1,  2,  3. 
'  Tile  Pfalmift  faith ;  '•  Thofe  that  be  planted  in  the  houfe 
"  of  the  Lord,  ftiall  flouriih  in  the  courts  of  our  God:  they 
"  fhall  bring  forth  fruit  in  old  age ;  they  fiiall  be  fat  and 
"  ftourifliing,"  Plal.  xcii.  13,  14.  Again;"  Hohnefs  be- 
"  comes  thine  houfe,  O  Lord,  for  ever,"  Pfal.  xciii.  5. 
'  Ilaiala  alio  laid  by  way  of  prophecy  ;  "  It  ftiall  come  to 
"  pals  in  the  laft  days,  that  the  mountain  of  the  Lord's 
'•  houfe  ftiall  be  eftabliflied  in  the  top  of  the  mountains,  and 
-*'  ftiall  be  exalted  above  the  hills,  and  all  nations  ftiall   flow 


1688}  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  ^^j 

"  unto  it,"  Ifa.  ii.  2.  Is  not  that  a  great  houfe  ?  Is  not 
'  this  mountain    Chrifl,  who  is  over  his  houfe  in  ilie  Ne\v 

<  Teftament  and  new  covenant  ?  To  this  mountain  and 
'  hou(e  all  the  children  of  the  New  Teftament  or  new  co- 

<  venant  flow  in  thefe  latter  days;  fo  that  it  is  come  to  pafs, 

*  which  was  prophefied  of  by  Ifaiah.  For  he  faid  ;  "  Ma- 
'•  ny  people  fhall  go  and  fay,  Come  ye,  and  let  us  go  up  to 
"  the  mountain  of  the  Lord,  to  the  houfe  of  the  God  of 
"  Jacob,  and  he  will  teach  us  of  his  ways,  and  we  will  walk 
*=  in  his  paths  :  for  out  of  Zion  fliall  go  forth  the  law,  and 
"  the  word  cf  the  Lord  from  jeruiaiem.  And  he  fhall 
"  judge  among  the  nations,  and  Ihall  rebuke  many  people ; 
"  and  they  fhall  beat  their  fwords  into  plow-fhares,  and 
*'  their  fpears  into  pruning-hooks  :  nation  fliall  not  lift  up 
"  {"word  againfl  nation,  neither  fnall  they  learn  war  any 
*'  more.  O  houfe  of  Jacob,  come  ye,  and  let  us  walk  in 
"  the  light  of  the  Lord."  ver.  3,  4,  5,  Here"  ye  may  fee, 
'  they  that  come  to  the  mountam  of  the  houfe  of  God,  and 

*  to  God's  teaching,  they  muft  walk  in  the  light  of  the  Lord  ; 
^  yea,  the  houfe  of  Jacob.  Jacob  fignifies  a  fuppianter  : 
'  he  fupplanted  profane  Efau,  who  is  hated,  and  Jacob  is 
'  loved.  Now  thefe  two  births  muft  be  known  withm:  they 
'  that  vralk  in  the  light  of  the  Lord,  and  come  to  Chrifi, 
'  the  mountain  of  the  houfe  of  the  Lord,  ellablifhed  above 
'  all   mountains   and    hills,  break  their  fwords  into   plow- 

*  fhares,  and  their  fpears  into  pruning-hooks  :  and  in  Chrifl, 
'  this  mountain  and  houfe  of  the  Lord,  there  are  no  fpears 
'  nor  fwords  to  hart  one  another  withal.  Chrift,  the  Son 
'  of  God,  is  over  his  houfe  and  great  family,  the  children  of 
'  tlie  light,  that  believe  in  it,  and  walk  in  it,  the  children  of 
'  the  day  of  Chrift,  his  holy  and  royal  priefthood,  that  offeF 
'  up  fpiritual  facrifice  to  God  by  him.  All  fuch  are  of 
'  Chrill's  (the  fpiritual  man's)  houfe  ;  who  are  born  of  God, 
'  and  led  by  his  Spirit :  they  are  of  the  Lord  of  lords,  and 
'  King  of  kings  houfe  and  family,  which  he  is  over;  and 
'  arc  of  the  houfehold  of  the  holy,  divine,  pure,  and  preci- 
'  ous  faith,  which  Chrift  is  the  author  and  finiftier  of  yVnd 
'  they  tiiat  be  of  the  Son's  houfe.  are  pure,  righteous,  and 
'  holy,  and  can  do  nothing  againft  the  truth,  but  for  it,  in 
'  their  words,  lives,  and  converfations ;  and  fo  are  a  chofen 
'  generation,  a  holy  nation,  a  peculiar  people,  that  they 
'  ftiould  ftiew  forth  the  praife  of  him  who  hath  called  them 

'  out   of  darknefs   into    his   marvellous  light.      Thefe  are 

*  Chrift's   lively   ftoncs,    tluit    build  up   a    fpiritual   houfe, 

Vol.   IL  2,  ^ 


4IO  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1688 

*  which  he  (Chrifl,  the  fpiritual  Man,  the  King  of  kings, 

*  and  Lord  of  lords)  is  over. 

« G.  f: 

'  London,  the  10th  month, 
' 1688/ 

Some  time  after  this,  my  body  continuing  weak,  I  went 
with  my  fon  Mead  to  his  houfe  in  EflTex  ;  where  I  (laid 
fome  weeks.  In  which  tune  I  writ  many  things  relating  to 
the  fervice  of  truth,  iome  were  printed  foon  after;  others 
were  fpread  abroad  in  manufcript  ;  and  amongd  other 
things,  a  few  lines  to  this  purpofe : 

'  'THHAT,  while  men  are  contending  for  thrones  here 
'  X  below,  Chrift  is  on  his  throne,  and  all  his  holy  an- 
'  gels  are  about  him,  who  is  the  beginning  and  the  ending, 
'  the  firft  and  laft,  over  all.  And  that  the  Lord  will  make 
'  way  and  room  for  himfelf,  and  for  them  that  are  born  of 
'  his  Spirit,  which  are  heavenly  Jerufalem's  children,  to 
'  come  home  to  their  free  mother.' 

A  few  words  alfo  I  writ  concerning  the  world's  teachers, 
and  the  emptinefs  of  their  teaching.      Which  were  thus  : 

'  Tn\OTH  not  that  which  is  called  Chriftendom  live  in 
'  -L/  talking  of  Chrift's,  of  the  apoftles,  and  prophets 
'  words,  and  the  letter  of  the  Scriptures  ?  And  do  not  their 
'  priefls    miniller   the    letter,    with    their  own   conceptions 

*  thereupon,  for  money,  though  the  holy  Scriptures  were 
'  freely  given  forth  from  God,  Chrift,  the  prophets,  and 
'  apoftles  ?  Yet  the  apoftle  faith,  "  The  letter  killeth,  but 
*'  the  Spirit  giveth  life,"  2  Cor.  iii.  6.  The  minifters  of 
'  the  New  Teftament  are  not  minifters  of  the  letter,  but  of 
'  the  Spirit,  and  they  fow  to  the  Spirit,  and  of  the  Spirit 
'  reap  life  eternal.  But  people's  fpending  time  about  old 
'  authors,  and  talking  of  them,  and  of  the  outward  letter, 
'  doth  not  feed  their  fouls.  For  talking  of  viftuals  and  clothes 
'  doth  not  clothe  the  body,  nor  feed  it.  No  more  are  their 
'  fouls  and  fpirits  fed  and  clothed,  except  they  have  the 
'  bread  and  v/ater  of  life  from  heaven  to  feed  them,, and  the 

*  righteoufnefs  of  Chrift  to  clothe  them.  Talking  of  out- 
'  ward  things  and  fpiritual  things,  and  not  poffefling  them, 
'  may   ftarve  both  their  bodies   and  their  fouls.     Therefoie 


i688]  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  411 

*  quench  not  the  fpirit  of  God,   which  will  lead  to  be  di- 

*  ligent  in  all  things/ 

With  this  I  writ  another  fhort  paper,  fhewing,  "  The 
*'  hurt  they  did,  and  the  danger  they  run  into,  who  turned 
"  people  from  the  inward  manifeftation  of  Chrift  in  the 
"  heart/' 

*  T^HE  Jews  were  commanded  by  the  law  of  God,  "not 
'  JL  to  remove  the  outward  landmark,"  Deut.  xix.  14. 
'  They  that  did  fo,  or  that  caufed  the  bhnd  to  wander,  were 
'  curfed  in  the  old  covenant,  Deut.  xxvii.  17.  In  the  new 
'  covenant  the  apoftle  faith ;  "  Let  him  be  accurfed  that 
"  preacheth  any  other  gofpel,  than  that  which  he  had 
**  preached,"  Gal.  i.  8.  The  gofpel  that  he. preached  was 
"the  power  of  God  unto  falvation,  to  every  one  that  be- 
"  lieveth,"  Rom.  i.  16.  And  the  gofpel  that  was  preached 
'  to  Abraham  was,  That  in  his  "  feed  all  nations,  and  all 
'•'  the  families  of  the  earth  fhould  be  bkHed."  In  order  to 
'  bring  men  to  this  blelfed  ftate,  God  poureth  out  of  his 
'  Spirit  upon  all  flefh ;  and  Chrift  doth  enhghten  every  one 

*  that  Cometh  into  the  world;  and  the  grace  of  God,  which 
'  bringeth  faivation,  hath  appeared  unto  all  men,  and  teach- 
'  eth  Chriftians,  the  true  believers  in  Chrift  ,  and  God  doth 
'  write  his  law  in  the  true  Chriftians  hearts,  and  putteth  it 
'  in  their  minds,  that  they  may  "  all  know  the  Lord,  from 
"  the  greateft  to  the  leaft  ;"  and  he  giveth  his  word  in  their 
'  hearts  to  obey  and  do,  and  the  anointing  within  them  ;  fo 
'  that  they  need  not  any  man  to  teach  them,  but  as  the 
'  anointing  doth  teach  them.     Now  all  fuch  as  turn  people 

*  from  the  light,   Spirit,  grace,  word,  and  anointing  within, 

*  remove  them  from  the  heavenly  land-mark  of  their  eternal 
'  inheritance,  and  make  them  blind,  and  can  fe  the  blind  to 

*  wander  from  the  living  way  to  their  eternal  houfe  in  the 

*  heavens,  and  from  the  new  and  heavenly  Jerufalem.  So 
'  they  are  curfed  that  caufe  the  blind  to  wander  out  of  their 

*  way,  and  remove  them  from  their  heavenly  land-mark. 

•  G.   F.' 


I  writ  alfo  a  paper  to  ftiew,  by  inftances  taken  out  of  the 
holy  fcriptures,  that  "  many  of  the  holy  men  and  prophets 
"  of  God,  and  of  the  apoftles  of  Chrift,  were  iiuibandmen 
"  and  tradefmen  :  by  which  people  might  fee  how  unhke 
•'  to  them  the  world's  teachers  now  are/* 
3  t"  2 


412  GEORGE     FOX'S     JOURNAL.  [1688 

I>  IGHTEOUS  Abel  was  a  fhepherd,  "  a  keeper  of 
\-  fhec;p."  Gen.  iv.  2.  Noah  was  an  hufljandman,  and 
'  he  vas  a  "  jufl  irian,  and  peile^l  in  his  generation,  and  walk- 
"  ed  witli   God,"   Gen.   ix.    20-  and  vi.   9.      Abraham,  the 

*  father  of  the  faithful,  v\'as  an  hufbandmiin,    and  had  great 

*  flocks  of  cattle;  juft  Lot  was  an  hufbandman,  and  had  great 

*  flocks  antl  herds,    Gen.   xiii.      liaac  was  an  hufbandman, 

*  and  had  great  "  flocks  and  herds  of  caJtle,  and  ftore  of 
*'  corn/'  Gen.   xxvt.    12.    14.      And  the  promife  Avas  with 

*  Ifaac  :  for  the  Lord  laid  to  Abraham,  ''  In  Ifaac  ffiall  thy 
*'  feed  be  ca]U::d."  Gen.  xxi.  12.  Jacob  was  an  hufband- 
'  jnan,  and  his  fons  "  keepers  of  flocks  of  cattle,"  Gen.  xlvi. 
'  32-  34*  3nd  God  loved  Jacob.     Mofts  keptftieep,  Exod. 

*  iii.    1.      The  Lord  fpake  to   him,  when   he  was  keeping 

*  Iheep,  ver.  4.  and  fent  him  to  Pharaoh,  to  bring  God's 
'  people,  or  fheep,  out  of  Egypt.  And  by  the  hand  and 
'  power   of  the  Lord,  he   and    Aaron  his  brother  brought 

*  them  out  of  Egypt,  a  land  of  anguifti,  bondage,  darknefs, 
'  and  perplexity.  And  Mofes  kept  the  Lord's  people,  or 
'  fheep,  forty  years  in  the  wildernefs :  a  meek  fhepherd  of 
'  God  he  was,  and  kept  his. great  flock  of  flieep  ;  though 
'  fome  of  them  were  icabbed  with  the  leprofy  of  contention 

*  and  murmuring,  and  were  deilroyed  in  the  wiidernefs. 

'  David  (though  he  afterwards  came  to  be  a  king)  was 
'  a   keeper  of  his   father's   flieep    in  the  wiidernefs,    %  Sam, 

*  xvii.   15,   28.     The  Lord  called  him  from  the  flieep-cotes 

*  to  feed  his  fheep,  the  houfe  of  Ifrael,  arid  to  defend  them 

*  from  the  fpiritual  wolves,  bears,  and  lions  -,  and  he  did  it 
'  to  purpofv^,  who  vvas  a  man  after  God's  own  heart. 

'  Elilha  v/as  a  plowman,  1  Kings  xix.  19.  He  was  caU 
'  led  from  the  plow,  to  teach  God's  people,  the  children 
'  of  Ilrae),  to  piov^'  \m  the  fallow-ground  of  their  hearts, 

*  that  they   niight  bring  forth  feed  and  fruits  to    God  their 

*  Creator. 

"  The  word  of  the  Lord  came  to  Amos,  when  he  was 
'  among  the  herdlmen  of  Tekoa,  Amos  i.  1.  Amaziah, 
'  tiie  prioil  of  Bethel,  faid  to  Amos,  "  Fropheiy  not  again 
"  any  mpre  at  Bethel :  for  it  is  the  king's  chapel,  and  it  is 
"  the  king's  court."  ckap.  vii.  13.  Amos  anfwered  "  I  was 
"  no  prophet,  neither  was  1  a  prophet's  fon  :  but  I  was  an 
••■  herdfiiia'^,  and  a  gafherer  of  iycamore-fruit  ;  and  the 
"  Lord  took  me  as  i  follov.^ed  the  fiock.  And  ihQ  Lord 
''•  faid  unto  me,  Go,  pvophefy  un»o  my  people  Ifrael,"  ver. 
'  14.    1/3.      Here  yc  may  iee,  the  Lord  made  ufe  of  a  poor 


1688]  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  413 

*  man,  and  called  him   from  following  the  outward  flock, 

*  and  from  gathering  of  outward  fruits,  to  gather  his  fruits, 

*  and  to  follow  his  people  or  flock,  the  children  of  Ifrael. 

'  Chrift  called  Peter,  and  Andrew  his  brother,  when 
"  calling  their  net  into  the  fea  (for  they  were  fifliers)  :  and 
"  he  faid  unto  them,  Follow  me,  and  1  will  make  you  fifli- 
"  ers  of  men/'  Matth.  iv.  18,  19.  Chrifl;  likewife  called 
'  James   and  John  his  brother,  when  they   were  in  a  Ihip, 

*  with  Zebedee  their  father,  "  mending  their  nets  ;  and  they 
"  immediately  left  the  ftiip,  and  their  father,  and  followed 
*"'  him,"  ver.  21.  22.  He  gave  them  power  (a  net  that 
'  will  hold,  and  not  want  mending)  and  made  them  fifliers 

*  of  men,  to  fifli  them  out  of  the  great  fea,  the  world  of 
'  wickednefs.     We  read,  when  Peter,   Thomas,  Nathaniel, 

*  the  fons  of  Zebedee,  and  other  difciples  went  a  fifliing  to- 
'  gether,  and  that  night  caught  nothing,  in  the  morning  Je- 
'  fus  appeared,  and  laid,  "  Caft  the  net  on  the  right  fide  of 
*'  the  fliip,  and  ye  fliall  find."     They  did  fo,  and  catched 

*  fo  great  a  multitude,  they  were  not  able  to  draw  them  to 

*  the  fliore.     When  thereupon  one  of  the  other  difciples  faid 

*  to  Peter,  "  It  is  the  Lord ;"  Peter,  hearing  that,  "  girded 
**  his  fifher's  coat  unto  him,"  John  xxi.  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7. 
'  This  was  after  Chrift  was  rifen.  So  here  ye  may  fee,  Pe- 
'  ter  had  not  laid  afide  his  fifher's  coat  all  the  while  that  he 
'  had  been  preaching  before  Chrifl;'s  death. 

'  Jefus  faw  Matthew  "  fitting  at  the  receipt  of  cuflom, 
*•  ^nd  he  faid  unto  him,  follow  me.  And  he  arofe,  and  fol- 
"  lowed  him,"  Matth.  ix.  9.  And  Chrift  employed  Mat- 
'  thew  to  gather  his  people,  that  were  fcattered  from  God ; 
'  another  manner  of  treafure  than  the  outward  cuflom  of  the 
*■  Romans.      Luke  was  a  phyfician,  whom    Chrifl  made  a 

*  phyfician  fpiritual  ;  which  was  better  than  outward. 

'  Paul  was  a  tent-maker;  and  being  of  the  fame  craft 
'  with  Aquila  and  Prifcilla,  '•  he  abode  with  them  at  Co- 
'Minth,  and  wrought;  (for  by  their  occupation  they  were 
''  t^nt  maker.;],"  Ads  xviii.   q. 

'  G.   F.' 
♦  Goofes,  the  firft  month, 
'  1688-9.' 

It  was  now  a  time  of  much  talk,  aud  people  too  much 
bufied  their  mindvS,  and  fpent  their  time,  in  hearing  and  tel- 
ling news.  To  flievv  ihem  the  vanity  thereof,  and  to  d^w 
th-jm  from  it,   I  wril  ihe  followincriincs : 


414  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1688 

'  TN  the  low  region,  in  the  airy  life,  all  news  is  uncertain  ; 
'  -a.  there  is  nothmg  ftable ;  but  in  the  higher  region,  in  the 
'  kingdom  of  Chrift,  all  things  are  ftable  and  lure,  and  the 

*  nexvs  always  good  and  certain.      For  Chrifl,  who  hath  all 

*  power  in  heaven  and  in  earth  given  unto  him,  ruleth  in  the 
'  kingdoms  of  men  :  and  he,  who  doth  inherit  the  heathen, 
'  and  pofTefs  the  utmofl  parts  of  the  earth  with  his  divine 

*  power  and  light,  rules  all  nations  with  his  rod  of  iron, 
'  and  "  daflies  tliem  to  pieces  like  a  potter's  veffels,"  the  vef- 

*  fels  of  difhonour,  and  the  leaky  veffels  that  will  not  hold 
'  his  living  water  of  life;  and  he  doth  preferve  his  ele£l  vef- 

*  fels  of  mercy  and  honour.  His  power  is  certain  and  doth 
'  not  change,  by  which  he  doth  remove  the  mountains  and 
'  hills,  and  fhakes  the  heavens  and  the  earth.      Leaky,  dif- 

*  honourable  veffels,  the  hills  and  mountains,  and  the  old 
'  heavens  and  the  earth,  are  all  to  be  fhaken,  removed,  and 
'  broken  to  pieces,  though  they  do  not  fee  it  nor  him  that 

*  doth  it ;  but  the  ele6l  and  faithful  both  fee  it,  and  know 
'  him  and  his  power  that  cannot  be  fhaken,  and  changeth 
'  not. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  The  5th  of  the  iff  month, 
'  1688-9/ 

About  the  middle  of  the  firft  month,  1688-9,  I  went  to 
London,  the  parliament  then  fitting,  and  being  then  about 
the  bill  of  indulgence.  Though  I  was  weak  in  body,  and 
not  well  able  to  ftir  to  and  fro,  yet  fo  great  a  concern  was 
upon  my  Spirit  on  behalf  of  truth  and  friends,  that  I  at- 
tended continually  for  many  days,  with  others,  at  the  par- 
iiamcnt-houfe,  labouring  with  the  members,  that  the  thing 
might  be  done  comprehenfively  and  effe6lually. 

In  this  and  other  fervices  I  continued  till  towards  the 
end  of  the  fecond  month,  v.'hen  being  much  fpent  with 
continual  labour,  I  got  out  of  town  for  a  little  while,  as  far 
as  Southgate  and  thereabouts.  While  I  was  there  I  wrote 
a  letter  to  Peter  Hendricks,  a  friend,  at  Amfterdam,  in 
which  I  inclofed  an  epiille  to  friends  at  Dantzick,  in  Po- 
land, who  at  this  time  were  under  great  perfecution.  And 
I  v.':.;.e  unto  them  to  encourage  and  ftrengthen  them  in 
(heir  teflimony,  and  to  comfort  them  in  their  fuffcrings  for 
the  truth.  I  a1fo  wrote  a  paper  to  their  perfecutors,  the 
niagiiirates  of  Dantzick,  laying  before  them  the  evil  of  per- 
Iccution,  pcrfuading  them  to  ChrifUan  moderation,  and  '  to 


1689]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  415 

*  do  unto  others,  in  matters  of  religion,  as  they  would  be 

*  done  unto.' 

'  To  Peter  Hendricks  at  Annfterdam;  and  to  friends  at 
'  Dantzick,  who  are  under  perfccution. 

*  Dear  friend  P.  H. 

*  X  yf  71TH  my  love  to  thee  and  thy  wife,  J.  Claufe,  and 

*  V  V  [.  RoelofFs,  and  all  the  reft  of  friends  tvtry  wherci 
'  in  Chrifl  Jefus,  who  reigns  over  all.  I  am  glad  to  hear 
'  friends  are  well  in  all  thofe  provinces  and  places  every 
'  where,  except  Dantzick,  and  that  you  were  fo  diligent  in 
'  fpreading  my  papers  to  the  ftrengthening  of  friends.  I 
'  have  lately  printed  the  Life  of  William  Caton,   but  have 

*  not  made  a  coUettion  of  his  books.     I  think  to  fend  fome 

*  of  them  to  you,  v;hich  you  may  tranflate  and  print  if  you 
'  will ;  they  may  be  ferviceable  among  friends,  efpecially 
'  them  that  knew  him. 

'  Concerning  friends  at  Dantzick,  whom  the  Lord  hath 
'  fupported  with  his  eternal  arm  and  power  to  this  day,  I 
'  hope  by  the  fame  arm  and  power  he  will  fupport  them, 
'  and  in  it  they  will  feel  his  bleffed  prefence  with  them  in 
'  all  their  fulFerings ;  who  is  over  the  cruelty  of  their  perfe- 
'  cutors,  who  will  hardly  let  them  breathe  outwardly  or  in- 
'  wardly,  in  the  common  air  of  their  native  foil.  Which 
'  lliews   their  immorality,   inhumanity,   and  unchriflianity, 

*  and  that  they  want  the  Gounfel  of  a  Gamaliel  amonglt 
'  them;  whofe  actions  are  below  the  law  of  God,  to  "  do 
"  unto  others  as  they  would  have  others  do  unto  them ;" 
'  God  will  not  blefs  the  doings  of  fuch.  However  I  delire 
'  that  friends  may  mind  the  Lord's  power  that  is  over  all, 
'  be  valiant  for  his  truth,  and  keep  upon  their  rock  and 
'  foundation  Chriil  Jefus,  that  ftands  fure  in  the  time  of'the 
'  heat  of  perfecution  which  is  fo  hot  upon  you,   that  they 

*  will  not  fufFer  you  to  have  fo  much  as  your  houfes  to 
'  work  and  fleep  in,  nor  to  meet  nor  ferve  God  in.  The 
'  Lord  beholds  all  fuch  a6lors  and  their  aftions.     Therefore 

*  look  over  all  to  him,  who  is  able  to  deal  with  them,  and 
'  reward  them  according  to  their  works.  God  Almighty 
'  preferve  you  all  in  Chrift  Jefus,  in  whom  you  have  reli, 

*  life  and  peace,  Amen.  ■'  G.  F.' 

*  Southgate,  the  28th  of  the 

'  2d  month,  1689.' 


4i6  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1685 

*  To  the  magiftrates  of  Dantzick : 

*  Chriftian  Shroder,  prefident  of  the  council,  Emanuel 
'  Dilger,  N.  Gadecken,  and  N.  Fraterus,  deputy  of  the 
'  council,  and  the  reft  of  the  magiftrates  and  pricfts. 

'  XAT''^  have  feen  your  order,  and  your  breathing  out 
'  V  V  perfecution  againft  that  little  flock,  the  lambs  of 
'  Chrift,  that  live  under  your  jurifdiftion  in  the  city  of 
'  Dantzick,  and  that  you  have  imprifoned  and  bamflied  two 
"'  by  the  hangman  out  of  the  government  of  your  city  ;  and 
'  others  you  threaten  to  do  the  fame  to,  with  great  punidi- 

*  ment  if  they  return.  Likewife  you  threaten  tllofe  with 
'  punifhment  they  rent  their  houfes  of,  if  they  let  them 
'  have  their  houfes  either  to  live  in,  or  meet  in  to  ferve  and 
'  worftiip  the  Lord  that  made  them.  Truly,  I  am  heartily 
'  forry  for  both  your  magiftrates  and  priefts,  that  go  under 
'  the  name  of  Chriftians,  and  fhcw  fuch  immoral,  inhu- 
'  man,  unchriftian  aftions,  below  the  royal  law  of  God, 
'  which  is  "  to  do  to  others  as  you  would  have  them  do 
"  unto  you."  For  would  you  think  it  was  moral,  human, 
'  or  chriftian,  or  according  to  the  law  of  God,  if  the  king 
'  of  Poland,  who  is  of  another  religion  than  you,  fhould 
'  banifti  you  out  of  your  city  by  the  hangman,  and  call  you 
'  murderers  of  fouls  ?  Could  you  fay  but  this  was  according 
'  to  the  law  of  God,  "  to  do  unto  you  as  you  would  have 
"  done  unto  others  ?"  If  you  fay,  you  have  the  fword,  the 
'  horn,  and  the  power :  bleffed  be  the  Lord  that  hath  ftiort- 
'  ened  your  fword,  your  power,  and  your  horn,  that  it 
'  reaches  no  further  than  your  jurifdiftion  of  Dantzick  :  and 
'  you  do  not  know  how  long  God  may  fuff"er  you  to  have 
'  your  horn,  your  power  and  your  fword.  We  are  fure 
'  you  have  not  the  mind  nor  Spirit  of  Chrift  ;  and  the  apof- 
'  tie  faith,  "  They  that  have  not  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  are 
"  none  of  his,"  Rom.  viii.  And  Chrift  bids  Peter  '■  put 
"  up  his  fword  ;"  they  that  draw  the  fword  concerning  him, 
'  to  defend  him  and  his  worftiip  and  laith,  fhould  perifti 
'  with  the  fword.  Peter  and  the  apoftles  never  drew  the 
'  outward  fword  after,  but  laid,  their  weapons  were  fpi ritual 
'  not  carnal,  and  they  did  not  wreftle  with  flelh  and  blood. 
'  Chrift  never  gave  any  fuch  command,  that  they  fhould 
'  banifti  any  by  the  hangman,  that  were  not  of  their  religion, 
'  nor  would  not  receive  it.      Are  not  you  worfe   than  the 

*  Turks,  who  let  many  religions  be  in  their  country,  yea 


1689]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  417 

*  Chriftians,  and  to  meet  peaceably?     Yea,   the    Turkifh 

*  poltroons  let  our  friends  that  were  captives  meet  together  at 
'  Algiers,  and  faid,  "  It  was  good  fo  to  do."  You  are 
'  \v^)rre  than  thofe  barbarous  people  at  Salee,  who  do  not 
'  profefs  Chrillianity  ;  for  you  profefs  Chrifl:  in  words,  but 
'  in  works  deny  him.      Did  you  ever  find,  either  in  fcrip- 

*  ture  or  hiRory,  that  any  perfecutors  profpered  long  ?  You 
'  are  worfe  than  they  are  in  the  Mogul's  country,  who  they 

*  fay  permits  fixty  religions  in  his  dominions ;  and  many 
'  others  might  be  mentioned,  which  you  are  worfe  than 
'  them  all  in  your  cruelty  and  perfecution  of  God's  people 
'  only  for  meeting  together  in  the  name  of  Jefus,  and  ferv- 

*  ing  and  worfliipping  God,  their  Creator.  No,  they  nluft 
'  not  breathe  in  their  natural  air,  neither  natural  or  fpiritu- 
'  al,  in  your  dominions.  .1  pray,  where  had  you  thefe 
'  commands  from  ?     Neither  from   Chrifl:  nor  his  apoftles. 

*  Do  not  you  profefs  the  fcriptures  of  the  New  Teftament 
'  to  be  your  rule?  But  I  pray  you,  what  fcripture  have 
'  you  for  this  practice  ?  It  is  good  for  you  to  be  humble, 
'  to  do  juftice,  love  mercy,  call  home  your  baniflied,  and 
'  love  and  cherifh  them;  yea,  though  they  were  your  ene- 
'  mies,  you  are  to  obey  the  command  of  Chrid,  and  love 
'  them.  I  wonder  how  you  and  your  w^ives  and  families 
'  can  flcep  quietly  in  your  beds,  that  do  fuch  cruel  a6lions, 
'  without  thinking  the  "  Lord  may  do  to  you  the  fame!" 
'  You  cannot  be  without  fenfe  and  feeling,  except  you  be 
'  given  over  to  reprobation,  and  your  confciences  feared 
'  with  a  hot  iron.  But  Chriftian  charity  doth  hope  that 
'  you  are  not  all  in  that  ftate  ;  but  that  there  may  be  fome 
'  relenting  or  confideration  of  your  a6lions  among  fome  of 
'  you,  either  according  to  the  law  of  God  or  his  gofpel. 

*  From  him  that  defircs  your  temiporal  and  eternal  good 
"  and  falvation,  and  not  deftrudion,    Amen. 


Middlefex,  the  28di  of  the 
'  2d  month,  1688.' 


G.  F.' 


'  Peter,  Thou  may'ft  tranflate  this  into  High  Dutch, 
'  and  fend  them ;  and  you  may  print  it,  if  you  will, 
*  and  fend  it  abroad  :  and  tranflate  that  put  of  the  let- 
'  ter  that  is  to  hiends  into  High  Dutch,  and  fend  to 
'  them.' 

V  o  I, .   I L  30 


4i8  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [168^ 

Having  ftaid  in  the  country  about  three  weeks,  I  return- 
ed to  London  a  little  before  the  yearly  meeting,  which  was 
in  the  third  month  this  year,  and  was  a  very  folemn, 
weighty  meeting;  the  Lord,  as  formerly,  vifiting  his  peo- 
ple, and  honouring  the  aflembly  with  his  glorious  prefence, 
to  the  great  fatisfaftion  and  comfort  of  friends.  After  the 
bufmefs  of  the  meeting  was  over,  it  was  upon  me  to  add  a 
few  lines  to  the  epiftle,  which  went  from  the  meeting  to 
friends,  after  this  manner  : 

'  Dear  friends  and  brethren, 

*  T^irHO  have  known  the  Lord's  eternal  arm  and  power, 

*  V  V  that  hath  preferved  you  upon  the  heavenly  rock  and 
'  foundation,  and  hath  built  your  houfe  upon  it ;   you  have 

*  known  many  winds,  tempefts,  and  ftorms  that  have  rifen 
'  out  of  the   fea,  where  the  beaft  rofe,   and  many   raging 

*  florms  that  have  rifen  by  apoftates  of  feveral  forts ;  but 
'  the  feed  that  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head,  and  is  the  founda- 

*  tion  of  God's  people,  ftands  fure.  Dear  friends  and  bre- 
'  thren,  though  there  be  great  fhakings  in  the  world,  the 
'  Lord's  power  is   over  all,  and  his  kingdom  cannot  be 

*  fhaken.     Therefore,  all  ye  children  of  God,  children  of 

*  the  light,  and  heirs  of  his  kingdom,  a  joyful,  peaceable 

*  habitation  keep  in ;  keeping  out  of  all  the  heats,  conten- 

*  tions,  and  difputes  about  things  below.  "  Lay  hand  on 
'•  no  man,  nor  nothing  fuddenly,"  left  they  fhould  be  puf- 
'  fed  up  with  that  which  fades,  and  fo  come  to  lofs ;  but 
'  mind  tlie  Lord's  power  that  keeps  open  your  heavenly  eye, 
'  to  fee  things  prei'ent  and  to  come,  and  in  that  ye  will  fee 

*  and  handle  the  word  of  life.  Dear  friends  every  where, 
'  have  power  over  your  own  fpirits.  As  God  hath  blelTed 
'  you  with  his  outward  things,  have  a   care  of  trufling  in 

*  them,  or  falling  into  difference  one  with  another  about 
'  thefe  outward  things  that  are  below,  which  will  pafs  away. 
'  But  all  live  in  the  love  of  God,  and  in  that  live  in  peace 
'  with  God,  and  one  with  another.  Follow  the  works  of 
'  charity,  and  overcome  the  evil  with  the  good  to  all ;  for 

*  what  good  have  all  the  tinklers  done,  with  their  cymbals 

*  and  founding  brafs  ?  They  always  bred  confufion,  and 
'  never  did  good  in  any  age ;  tinkling  with  their  cymbals, 
'  and  founding  with  their  brafs,  to  draw  out  the  firnpie  to 
'  follow  them.  It  is  good  for  all  the  children  of  God  to 
'  keep  in  their  poireffions  of  life,  and  in  the  love  of  God 
«  that  is  everlafling.      As  for  all  ths  tumults  of  the  vrorld. 


1689]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  41^ 

*  and  the  apoftates  from  the  truth,  the  Lord's  power  is  over 

*  them  all,  Chrifl  reigns,  and  the  Lord  faith,  "  No  weapon 
'•  that  is  formed  againft  thee   fhall  profper,"   I  fa.  liv.  17. 

*  Friends,  you  are  not  infenlible  how  many  weapons  have 

*  been  formed  againft  us  who  are  fons  and  daughters  of 
'  God,  and  the  Lord  hath  reftrained  them  according  to  his 

*  promife  ;  they  "  have  not  profpered."  The  Lord  faid, 
"  Every  tongue  that  fhall  rife  up  in  judgment  againft  thee, 
"  thou  ftialt  condemn ;"  fo  God  hath  given  fuch  a  power 
'  to  his  children  to  condemn  all  the  tongues  that  ftiall  rife 

*  up  in  judgment  againft  them,  and  this  is  the  heritage  of 
'  the  fervants  of  the  Lord,  "  Their  righteoufnefs  is  of  me," 
'  faith   the   Lord,      You    are    not  infenlible  of  the   many 

*  tongues  that  have  rifen  up  againft  us  in  judgment,  yea  of 

*  apoftates  and  prophane  ;  but  in  and  with  the  truth,  the 
^  power  of  God,  according  to  the  promife  of  God,  "  Every 
*'  tongue  that  rifeth  againft  thee  thou  ftialt  condemn/'  It 
'  is  not  one  tongue  only  thou  flialt  condemn  ;  but  every 
^  tongue  that  ftiall   rife   up  in  judgment  againft  thee  thou 

*  ftialt  condemn.     The  Lord  giveth  this  power  to  his   fer- 

*  vants  and  children  to  judge  the  evil  tongues,  and  he  doth 

*  reftrain  the  weapons  formed  againft  them,  fo  that  they 
'  ftiall  not  profper  againft  his  children  that  he  hath  begotten. 
^  Praifes  and  honour  be  to  his  holy  name  for  ever !    Amen  ! 

'  G.  F.' 

Soon  after  this  the  yearly  meeting  began  at  York,  which, 
becaufe  of  the  largenefs  of  that  county,  and  for  the  conve- 
niency  of  friends  in  the  northern  parts,  had  for  fome  years 
been  held  there.  And  inafmuch  as  there  had  been  fome 
hurt  done  in  that  place,  by  fome  that  were  gone  out  of  the 
unity  of  friends,  it  was  upon  me  to  write  a  few  lines  to 
that  meeting,  to  *  exhort  them  to  keep  in  pure  heavenly 
love,  '  which  brings  into  and  keeps  in  the  true  unity.' 
Which  was  thus ; 

•  Dear  friends  and  brethren  in  Chrift  Jefus, 
'  T  7[ /"KOM  the  Lord  by  his  eternal  arm  and  power  hadi 

*  ^  V  preferved  to  this  day,  all  walk  in   the  power  and 
Spirit  of  God,  that  is  over  all,  in  love  and  unity  ;  for  love 

*  overcomes,  builds  up,  and  unites  all  the  members  of  Ghrift 

*  to  him  the  Head.  Love  keeps  out  of  all  ftrife,  and  is  of 
'  God.      Love,  or  charity,  never  fails,  but  keeps  the  mind 

*  (ibove  ?,11  outward  things,  and  ftrife  about  ouiwcud  things. 

2    G    2 


420  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [168^ 

*  It  overcomes  evil,  and  calls  out  all  falTe  fears.      It  is  of 

*  God,  and  unites  all  the  hearts  of  his  pe'-:>p!e  together  in  the 
^  heavenly  joy,  concord,    and  unity.     The    God    of   love 

*  preferve  you  all,  and  ellablifh  you  ip  Chrift  jefus,  your 
'  life  and   falvation,  in  whom  ye  have  all  peace  with    God. 

*  So  walk  in  him,  that  ye  may  be  ordered  in  his  peaceable, 

*  heavenly  wifdoni,  to  the  glory  of  God,  and  the   comfort 

*  one  of  another,  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  27tli  of  the 
'  3d  month,   1689.' 

Being  much  wearied  and  fpent  with  many  large  meet- 
ings, and  much  bufinefs  with  friends  during  the  time  of  the 
yearly  meeting,  and  finding  my  health  much  impaired  there- 
by, I  went  out  of  tovvn  with  my  daughter  Route  to  their 
country-houfe  near  Kingfton,  and  tarried  there  mod  of  the 
remaining  part  of  the  fummer.  In  which  time  I  fometimes 
vilited  friends  at  Kingfton,  and  wrote  divers  things  for  the 
fervice  of  truth  and  friends.  One  was  an  epiilie  to  friends  at 
Barbadoes ;  as  foilowcth  : 

*  To  all  friends  in  Sarbadoes  that  arc  convinced  of  God's 

'  truth. 

*  TV  yl"  Y  defires  are  that  ye  may  live  and  walk  in  hispeace- 
'  -LVa  able  truth,  and  ilievv^  forth  that  ye  are  children  of  the 

*  light  and  of  the  truth  ;  for  the  heavenly,  gtntle,  peaceable 
'  wifdom  is  juflified  of  her  children.     But   debate,    ftrife, 

*  wilfulnefs,  laying  open  one  another's  nakednefs  and  weak- 
'  nefs,  is  not  the  practice  of  heavenly  wildom's  children  (but 

*  of  Ham's)  nor  from  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  ;  neither  fuch  as 
^  bite  and  tear  one  another  ;  that  is  from  a  devouring  fpirit, 
'  not  the  Spirit  of  Jefus,  which  covers  that  which  is  uncome- 

*  ly,  and  can  forgive.      My  friends,  you   profefs  that  truth 

*  which  is  bej^ond   all  the  world's  ways,   therefore  fee   that 

*  you  excel  them  in  the  heavenly  gentle  wifdom,  that  is  ea- 
■  fy  to  be  intreated  ;  for  the  wifdom  o(  the  tvorid  is  not  cafy 

*  to  be  intreated,  and  fometimes  will  not  be  intreated  at  all. 

*  Pray  fee  you  excel  the  world  in  wifdom,  in  virtue,  in  kind- 

*  nefs,  in  love  that  is  over  hatred,  in  meeknefs,  humility, 
'  fobriety,  civility,  and  modefty,  in  tcniperance  and  pati- 
i  encc,  and  in  all  morality  and  humanity ;  which  will  not 
?  5i6l  any  thing  hil^w  men  nor  unmanly.     Shew  forvh  true 


689]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  42  j 

chriflianity,  and  that  ye  are  the  converted  and  tranflated 
believers  in  Chrifl,  dwelling  in  the  love  of  God  that  bear- 
eth  all  things,  endureth  all  things,  is  not  puffed  up,  and 
envies  not.      For  they  that  are  out  of  this  love  of  God, 
and  Chriflian  charity,  are  nothing  but  as  a  tinkling  cym- 
bal and  as  founding  brafs,  and  are  difcontented,  murmur- 
ers  and  complainers,  full  of  doubts,  queftions,    and  falfe 
jealoufics.      Keep  that  fpirit  out  of  the  camp  of  God  :  for 
do  not  you  read  m  the  fcriptures,  both  of  the   New  and 
Old  Teftament,  that  the  end  of  fuch  was  mifery  ?  There- 
fore, in  the  love  of  God,   buiid  up  one  another  ;    for  love 
edifies  the  body  of  Chrifl,  and  he  commands  his  believers 
to  love  enemies,  and  to  love  one  another ;  by  this  they 
are  known  to  be  the  difciples  of  Chrift.     But  to  live  in 
envy,  ft  rife,  and  hatred,  is  a  mark  that  they  are  no  difci- 
ples of  Chrifl ;  "  for  he  that  loveth  not  his  brother  abides 
'  in  death,  and  whofoever  hates  his  brother  is  a  murderer, 
'  a7id  ye  know  that  no  murderer  hath  eternal  life  abiding  in 
'  him.     But  they  that  love   the   brethren  are  paffed  from 
'  death  to  life,"  i  John  iii.  14,  15,     And,  "  If  a  man  fay, 
'  I  love  God,  and  hateth  his  brother,  he  is  a  liar  ;  for  he 
'  that  loveth  not  his  brother,  whom  he  hath  feen,  how  can  he 
'  iove  God.  whom  he  hath  not  feen  ?  And  this  command- 
'  mcnt  have  we  from  God,  that  he  who  loveth  God  loves 
'  his  brother  alfo,"  chap,  iv,   20,  21.     Therefore  "   love 
'  one  another;"  for  love  is  of  God,  and  hatred  is  of  the  de- 
vil, and  every  one  that  loveth  is  born  of  God,  and  knows 
God.     All  are  children  of  God  by  creation,  therefore  in 
that  ftate  they  are  to  love  their  neighbours  as  themfeives, 
and  "  to  do  unto  ail  men  as  they  would  have   them  do 
'•  unto  them.."     Secondly,   God  pouring  his  Spirit  upon  all 
flelh  (or  all  men  and  women)  all  that  are  led  by  the  Spirit 
of  God  arc  the  Sons  of  God,  heirs  of  God,    and  joint- 
heirs  with  Chnfl,  and  are  in  fellowfhip  in  the  everlafting 
gofpel,  and  in  unity  in  the    Spirit,  the  bond   of  peace. 
They  that  go  out  of  thjs  unity,  out  of  the  bond  of  peace, 
and  do  not  keep  it,  break  the  King  of  kings    peace  ;  but 
they  that  keep   in  the  unity  and  fellowfhip  in  the   Spirit, 
and  walk   in  the  light,  have  fellowfhip  one  with  another, 
and  with  the  Father  and  the  Son.      It  is  not  every  one  that 
talks  of  the  light  of  the  world,  of  righteoufnefs,  of  Chrift, 
and  of  God,   but  he  that  "  doth  the  will  of  God."  There- 
fore my   friends,  ftrive  to  excel  one  another  in  love,  in 
't  yi^tue,  in  .^ood  life  and  <:;onvcrfation  j  and  ftrive  all  to  be 


422  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [i6?9 

'  of  one  mind,  heart,  and  judgment  In  the  Spirit  of  God ; 

*  for  in  Chrifl  all  are  one,  and  are  in  peace  with  him.     The 

*  Lord  God  Almighty  preferve  you  in  him,  your  rock  and 

*  foundation,  that  is  heavenly  and  ftands  fure;  that  ye  may 
'  be  valiant  for  the  truth  upon  earth,  for  the  Lord  and  his 
'  glorious  name  ;  that  ye  may  all  ferve  him  in  your  genera- 
'  tion,  and  in  his  new  creation  in  Chrifl  Jefus,   Amen. 

'  And  now  that  you  are  come  into  fo  much  favour  with 
'  the  magiftrates  and  powers,  that  they  let  you  ferve  the 
'  office  of  a  conftable,  &c.  without  fwearing  or  taking  any 
'  oaths,  hereby  Chrifl's  do6lrine  and  command,  and  his 
'  apoftle's  is  let  up.  I  therefore  defire  that  you  may  double 
'  your  diligence  in  your  offices,  in  doing  that  which  is  juft, 

*  true,  and  righteous ;  fo  that  ye  may  excel  and  exceed  all 
'  that  are  tied  or  bound  by  oaths  to  perform  their  offices ; 
'  and  you  can  do  it  upon  your  Yea  and  Nay ;  fo  fay  and 
'  fo  do,  according  to  Chrifl's  do6lrine  and  command.  For 
'  Adam  and  Eve,  by  difobeying  the  command  of  God,  fell 

*  under  condemnation ;  and  they  that  difobey  the  command 
'  of  Chrifl,  in  taking  oaths  and  fwearing,  go  into  evil,  and 
'  fall  into  condemnation,  Mat.  v.  and  James  v.  My  love 
'  in  the  Lord  is  to  you  all, 

'  G.  F.' 
*  Kingflon  upon  Thames,  the  loth 
'  of  the  5th  month,  1688.' 

I  flaid  at  Kingflon  till  the  beginning  of  the  feventh 
month,  where  not  only  friends  came  to  vifit  me,  but  fome 
confiderable  people  of  the  world,  with  whom  I  difcourfed 
about  the  things  of  God.  Then  leaving  Kingflon,  I  went 
to  London  by  water,  vifiting  friends  as  I  went,  and  taking 
Hammerfmlth-meeting  in  my  v/ay.  Having  recovered  fome 
ftrength  by  being  in  the  country,  when  I  was  come  to  Lon- 
don I  v/ent  from  meeting  to  meeting,  labouring  diligently 
in  the  work  of  the  Lord,  and  opening  the  divine  myfteries 
of  the  heavenly  things,  as  God  in  his  Spirit  opened  them 
to  rne.  But  I  found  my  body  would  not  long  bear  the 
city ;  wherefore,  when  I  had  travelled  amongft  friends  there 
about  a  month,  I  went  to  Tottenham-High-Crofs,  and  from 
thence  to  Edward  Man's  country-houfe  near  Winchmore- 
hiil,  and  to  Enlield;  fpending  three  weeks  amongft  friends 
thereabouts,  and  had  meetings  at  all  thofe  places.  Then, 
being  a  little  refrcfljsd  in  the  country,  I  returned  to  Lon- 
don;  wher::;  I  tarried^  labouring  in  the  work  cf  the  mialftrys 


16893  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  423 

till  the  middle  of  the  ninth  month ;  at  which  time  I  went 
with  my  fon  Mead  to  his  houfe  in  ElTex,  and  abode  there 
all  the  winter.  During  which  time  I  ftirred  not  much 
abroad,  unlefs  fometimes  to  the  meeting  to  which  that  fa- 
mily belonged,  which  was  about  half  a  mile  from  thence; 
but  I  had  meetings  often  in  the  houfe  with  the  family  and 
thofe  friends  that  came  thither.  Many  things  alfo  I  wrote 
while  I  was  there,  fome  of  which  follow.  One  was  an 
epiftle  to  the  quarterly  and  yearly  meetings  of  friends  in 
Pennfylvania,  New-England,  Virginia,  Maryland,  the  Jer- 
feys.  Carolina,  and  other  plantations  in  America.  Whicli 
was  thus : 

'  My  dear  friends  and  brethren  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift, 
'  T/l /"HO^  by  believing  in  his  light,  arc  become  children 
'  V  V  of  his  light  and  of  his  day  :  my  dcfires  are,  that 
'  you  may  all  walk  in  the  light  and  in  the  day,  and  keep 
••  the  feafi:  of  Chrift,  our  pafTover,  who  is  facrificed  for  us, 
'  not  with  old  leaven,  neither  with  the  leaven  of  malice  and 
'  wickednefs ;   but  let  all  that  be  purged  out,  that  ye  may 

*  be  a  new  lump,  keeping  the  feaft  of  Chrift,  our  paiiover, 

*  with  the  unleavened  bread  of  fmcerity  and  truth.  Let  no 
'  leavened  bread  be  found  in  your  houfes,  nor  in  your 
'  meetings,  nor  in  the  camp  of  God,  or  houfehold  of  faith, 
'  which  are  the  houfehold  of  Chrift;  but  all  that  four,  old 
'  leaven,  which  makes  people's  hearts  four,  and  burn  one 
'  againft  another,  muft  be  purged  out  of  the  camp  of  God, 

*  and  kept  out.  For  the  feaft  of  Chrift,  our  paffover,  muft 
'  be  kept  in  the  New  Covenant  with  his  heavenly  unlea- 
'  vened  bread  of  life.  The  Jews  feaft  in  the  Old  Teftamcnt 
'  was  kept  with  outward  unleavened  bread  ;  and  now  in  the 

*  New  Teftament,  in  the  golpel-day,  our  feaft  is  to  be  kept 
'  with  the  heavenly  unleavened  bread  of  fmcerity  and  truth. 
'  Therefore  friends,  I  dehre  you  ferioufly  to  confider,  and 
'  to  keep  this  feaft  which  the  apoftle  directed  the  church  of 
'  Chrift  to  keep.  Do  not  you  fee  Chriftendom,  fo  called, 
'  keep  their  feafts  with  the  leavened  bread  of  malice  and 
'  wickednefs  ?   which  makes  them  fo  four,  and  their  hearts 

*  fo  to  burn  one  againft  another,  that  they  have  deftroyed, 
"  and  do  deftroy  one  another  about  religion.  Therefore  all 
'  live  in  the  love  of  God,  which  keeps  above  the  love  of  the 
'  v/crld ;  fo  that  none  of  your  hearts  m.ay  be  choakcd  or 
'  furfeited  with  thefe  outward  things,  or  with  the  cares  ot 
'  the  world  which  will  pafs  away  ;   but  mind  ye  the  world 


424  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1689 

*  and  the  life  that  is  without  end,  that  ye  may  be  heirs  of  it* 

*  And,  friends,  you  fhould  ftrive  to  excel  all,  both  profeifor 
'  and  prophane,  in  morality,   humanity,  and    Chiiftianity, 

*  modefty,  fobriety,  and  moderation,  and  in  a  good,  godly, 

*  righteous  life  and   converfation ;    (hewing  forth  the  huits 

*  of  the  Spirit  of  God  and  that  you  are  the  children  of 
'  the  living  God,   children  of  light  and  of  day,  and  not  of 

*  the  night.     And  ferve  God  in  newnefs  of  life ;  for  it  is  the 

*  life,  and  a  living  and  walking  in  the  truth,  that  mufl  an- 

*  fwer  the  witnefs  of  God  in  all  people,  '•  that  they,  feeing 
"  our  good  works,  may  glorify  our  Father  which  is  in  hea- 
"  ven."  Tnerefore  be  vaHant  for  God's  holy  pure  truth, 
'  and  fpread  it  abroad  among  both  profelfors  and  prophane, 

*  and  the  Indians.  And  you  fhould  write  over  once  a  year, 
'  from  all  your  yearly  meetings,  to  the  yearly  meeting  here, 
'  concerning  your  dnigcncL;  in  the  truth,  and  of  its  fpread- 
'  ing,  and  of  people's  receiving  it,  both  profelTors  and  pro- 
'  phane,  and  the  ladians;  and  concerning  the  peace  of  the 
'  church  of  Chrift  amongft  yourfelves.  For,  blelled  be 
'  the  Lord,  truth  doth  get  ground  in  thefe  parts,  many  are 
'  made  very  loving  to  friends,  and  the  Lord's  power  and 
'  feed  is  over  all :  in  which  God  Almighty  keep  all  his  peo- 
'  pie  to  his  glory,  Amen. 

'  G.  ¥.' 
'  Goofes,  the  28th  of  the  11th 
'  month,   1689.' 

While  I  was  in  the  city  I  had  a  concern  upon  my  fpirit 
with  refpeft  to  a  twofold  danger  that  attended  fome  who 
profefTed  truth;  one  was  of  young  people's  running  into  the 
fafhions  of  the  world,  and  the  other  was  of  old  people's  go- 
ing into  the  earth.  And  that  concern  coming  now  again 
weightily  upon  me,  I  was  moved  to  give  forth  the  follovv^- 
ing  as  a  reproof  to  fuch,  and  an  exhortation  and  warning  to 
all  friends  to  beware  of  and  keep  out  of  thofe  fnares. 

'  To  all  that  profefs  the  truth  of  God. 

MY  defires  are  that'you  walk  humbly  in  it ;  for  when 
the  Lord  firft  called  me  forth,  he  let  me  fee  that 
young  people  grew  up  together  in  vanity  and  the  fafhions 
of  the  world,  and  old  people  went  downwards  into  the 
earth,  raking  it  together;  and  to  both  thefe  I  was  to  be  a 
llranger.     And  now,  friends,   I  do  fee  too  many  young 


1690]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  425 

«  people  that  profefs  the  truth  grow  up  into  the  faihions  c>f 
'  the  world,  and  too  many  parents  indulge  them  ;  and 
«  amongft  the  elder  i'ome  are  dechning  downwards  and  rak- 
'  ing  after  the  earth.     Therefore,  taJce  heed  that  you  are 

<  not  making  your  graves  while  you  are  alive  outwardly, 

*  and  loading  yourfelves  with  thick  clay,  Hab.  ii.  6.  For 
«  if  yOQ  have  not  power  over  the  earthly  Spirit,  and  that 
'  which  leadeth  into  a  vain  mind,  and   the  fafiiions  of  tiie 

*  world,  and  into  the  earth ;  though  you  have  often  had  the 
'  rain  fall  upon  your  fields,  you  will  but  bring  fonh  thifl'es, 
'  briers,   and  thorns,   which  are  for  the  fire.      Such   will  be- 

<  come  brittle,  peevifli,  fretful  fpirits,  that  will  not  abide 
'  the  heavenly  doctrine,  the  admonitions,  exhortations,  and 
'  reproofs  of  the  Holy  Ghofl,  or  heavenly  Spirit  of  God  ; 
'  which  would  bring  you  to  be  conformable  to  the  death  of 
'  Chriil,  and  to  his  image,  that  ye  might  have  fello^vfhip 

*  with  him  in  his  refurreftion.  Therefore  it  is  good  for  all 
«  to  bow  to  the  name  of  Jefus,  their  Saviour,  that  all  may 
'  confefs  him  to  the  glory  of  God  the  Father.  For  I  have 
'  had  a  concern  upon  me,  in  a  fenfe  of  the  danger  of  young 
'  people's  going  into  the  faihions  of  the  world,  and  old  peo- 
'  pie's  going  into  the  earth,  and  many  going  into  a  ioofe 
'  and  falfe  liberty,  till  at  laft  they  go  quite  out  into  the  fpi- 
'  rit  of  the  world  as  fome  have  done.  The  houfe  of  fuch 
'  hath  been  built  upon  the  fand  on  the  fea-ftiore,  not  upon 
'  Chrifl:  the  Rock ;  that  are  io  foon  in  the  vorld  again,  un- 
'  der  a  pretence  of  liberty  of  coniciejnce.  But  it  is  not  a 
'  pure  confcience,  nor  in  the  Spirit  of  God,  nor  in  Chrifl 
'  fefus;  for  in  the  liberty  in  the  Spirit  there  is  the  unit)^ 
'  which  is  the  bond  of  peace ;  and  all  are  one  in  Chrift 
'  jefus,  in  whom  is  the  true  liberty  :  and  this  is  not  of  the 
'  world,  for  he  is  not  of  the  world.      Therefore  all  are  to 

*  ftand  fall  in  him,  as  they  have  received  him;  for  in  him 
'  there  is  peace,  who  is  the  Prince  of  Peace,  but  in  the 
'  world  there  is  trouble.  For  the  fpirit  of  the  world  is  a 
'  troublelome  fpirit,  but  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  is  a  peaceable 
'  Spirit :   m  which  God  Almighty  preferve  all  the  faithful, 

*  Amen. 

'  G.  F.* 
'  Goofes,  the  ill  of  the 
'  2d  month,  1690.' 

Another  I  wrote  while  I  was  here  concerning  the  Enfign 
which  Ifaiah  prophehed  the   Lord  Ihould  fct  up   for  the 
Vol.   II.  3  H 


426  GEORGE    TOX's    JOURNAL.  C1690 

Gentiles,  which  I  fhewed  was  Chrift.  Of  which  follows 
a  copy : 

THE  Lord  faith,  "  They  fhall  not  hurt  nor  dellroy  iii 
all  my  holy  mountain ;  for  the  earth  fliall  be  full  of  the 
''  knowledge  of  the  Lord,  as  the  waters  cover  the  fea,"  Ifa.  xi. 
'  g.  "  And  in  that  day  there  fliall  be  a  root  of  JefTe,  which 
'•  fliall  (land  for  an  enfign  of  the  people ;  to  it  fliall  the 
"  Gentiles  feek,  and  his  refl;  fliall  be  glorious,"  ver.  10. 
"  And  he  fliall  reign  over  the  Gentiles,  and  in  him  fliall 
"  the  Gentiles  trufl,"  Rom.  xv.  12.  This  Enfign  is 
'  Chrift,  who  was  prophefied  of  by  the  prophet ;  which 
'  prophecy  the  apoftle,  who  was  a  minifter  to  the  Gentiles, 
'  ftieweth  was  fulfilled  in  the  New  Teftament.  In  this  day 
'  of  Chrift,  Ifaiah  faith,  "  The  Lord  fliall  fet  his  hand 
"  again  the  fecond  time  to  recover  the  remnant  of  his  people, 
"  which  fliall  be  left,  from  AfTyria  and  from  Egypt,  Sec. 
'*'  And  he  fhall  fet  up  an  enfign  for  the  nations,  and  fhall 
'•  affemble  the  outcafls  of  Ilrael,  and  gather  together  the  dif- 
"  perfed  of  Judah  from  the  four  corners  of  the  earth,"  ver. 

*  11,  12.    This  is  in  the  day  of  Chrift:,  and  his  gofpel  of  life 

*  and  falvation,  which  is  preached  to  every  creature  un- 
'  dor  heaven,  who  "  enhghteneth  every  man  that  cometh 
"  into  the  world,"  both  Jews  and  Gentiles,  that  by  his  hea- 
'  venly  divine  light  they  may  fee  Chrift,  their  Enfign  and 

*  Captain  of  their  falvation ;  fo  Chrift  is  one  Enfign  both 
'  to  the  Jews  and  Gentiles.  Ifaiah  faith,  "  The  Redeemer 
"  fliall  come  to  Sion,"  &c.  Ifa.  lix.  20.  And,  "  This  is 
"  my  covenant  with  them,  faith  the  Lord,  my  Spirit  that  is 
'*  upon  thee  (to  wit,  Chrift)  and  my  words,  which  I  have 
''  put  in  thy  mouth,  fliall  not  depart  out  of  thy  mouth,  nor 
"  out  of  the  mouth  of  thy  feed,  nor  out  of  the  mouth  of  thy 
"  feed's  feed,  faith  the  Lord,  from  henceforth  and  for  ever," 
'ver.  21.  "  Arife,  fliine,  for  thy  light  is  come,  and  the 
"  glory  of  the  Lord  is  rifen  upon  thee,"  chap.  Ixi.  1. 
'•  And  the  Gentiles  fliall  come  to  thy  light,"  ver.  3.  "  And 
"  the  abundance  of  the  fea  fliall  be  converted  unto  thee,"  ver. 
'  5.  (the  fea  is  the  world).  "  The  Lord  fliall  be  thy  ever- 
"  lafting  light,"  ver.  20.  And,  "  Thou  fhalt  call  thy  walh, 
"  falvation,  and  thy  gates,  praife,"  ver.  18.  And  the  Lord 
'  faith,  "  I  will  make  the  place  of  my  feet  glorious,"  ver. 
'13.  "  Heaven  is  his  throne,  and  earth  is  his  footftool," 
'  chap.  Ixvi.  1.  '•'  And  he  that  puts  his  truft  in  me,  faith  the 
"  Lord,  fhall  policfs  the  land,  and  fliall  inherit  my   holy 


1690]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  427 

"mountain,"    chap.    Ivii.    13.     Which   mountain  is  efta- 

*  bhflied  above  all  the  mountains  and  hills,  I  fa.  ii.  2.  The 
'  Lord  faith  (fpeaking  of  Chrift)  "  I  have  put  my  fpirit  up- 
"  on  him,  he  fhall  bring  forth  judgment  to  the  Gentiles,' 
'  Ifa-  xlii.  1.  "I  will  give  thee  for  a  covenant  of  the  peo- 
*'  pie,  for  a  light  of  the  Gentiles  ;  to  open  the  blind  eyes, 
"  to  bring  out  the  prifoners  from  the  prifon,  and  them  that 
*'  fit  in  darknefs,  out  of  the  prifon-houfe.  1  am  the  Lord, 
*'  that  is  my  name,  and  my  glory  will  I  not  give  to  another, 
"  neither  my  praife  to  graven  images,"  ver.   6,  7,   8.      So 

*  Chrift  the  Light  is  come,  and  the  glory  of  the  Lord  is  ri- 

*  fen,  and  the  Gentiles  are  come  to  the  light  of  Chrift.  This 
'  prophecy  of  Ifaiah  concerning  Chrift,  many  of  the  Gen- 
'  tiles  witnefs  fulfilled,  that  "  falvation  is  come  to  the  Gen- 
"  tiles,"  Rom.  xi.  11.  God  gave  his  glory  to  his  fon; 
'  and  Chrift  faith,  "  The  glory  which  thou  gaveft  me,  1 
*■'  have  given  them  (namely  his  believers  and  followers)  that 
"  they  may  be  one,  even  as  we  are  one,"  John  xvii.  22. 
'  Here  you  may  fee  the  promifes  and  prophecies  are  fulfil- 

*  led  in  Chrift  Jefus,  whom  God  hath  given  for  an  Enfign 

*  both  to  the  Jews  and  Gentiles,  and  the  Captain  of  their 

*  Salvation ;  and  he  doth  enlighten  every  one  that  cometh 
'  into  the  world :  that  with  his  heavenly  divine  light  they 
'  might  fee   Chrift,  the   Lord  from  heaven,  their  Captain 

*  and    Enfign,  and  truft   in  him,    their   Conqueror ;    who 

*  bruifes  the  ferpent's  head,  and  deftroys  the  devil  and  his 

*  works  :  and  Chrift  and  his  followers  overcome  the  dragon, 

*  beaft,  and  falfe  prophet.     Therefore  all  Jews,  Gentiles, 

*  and    Chriftians,     that   come  to   believe   in    Chrift,  are  to 

*  ftand  to  their  Enfign,   Chrift,  who  is  alfo  the  Captain  of 

*  their  Salvation,  above  all  enfigns  and  captains  below,  for 
'  he  is  from  above  ;  therefore  all  are  to  truft  in  him,  for  he 
'  is  certain  and  able  to  fave  to  the  utmoft.  He  is  the  fame 
'  Enfign  and  Captain  to-day  as  he  was  yefterday,  and  io  for 

*  ever,  the  Firft  and  I, aft,  the  Beginning  and  Ending,  the 

*  Lord  of  lords,  md  King  of  all  kings  upon  the  earth  ;  and 
'  there  is  nothing'rertain  to  be  trufted  in  bsiow  Chrift  Jefus 

*  who  is  from  above.  You  fee  in  the  fcriptures,  there  were 
'  many  ways  and  religions  among  the  heathen,  as  there  were 
'  many  fefts  among  the  Jews  when  Chrift  came  ;  and  now 
'  there  are  many  fefts  or  religions  among   the    Chriftians, 

*  who  believe  from  the  fcriptures  "  that  he  is  come,"  as  the 
'  Jews   believed  *•  he  was   to  come."     But  they  that  clofe 

*  their  eyes,  and  ftop  their  ears  to  the  light  of  Chrift,  are 

^  H  2 


428  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  [1690 

'  not  like  to  fee  Chrift  who  hath  enlightened  tlicm,  to  be 
'  their  Eniign  and  the  Captain  of  their  Salvation,   that  fee 

*  not  with   the  heavenly  eye,  nor  hear  with  the  heavenly 

*  ear,  to  fee  and  hear  their  heavenly  Enfign  and  Captain  of 
'  their  Salvation,  to  convert  and  heal  them  ;  that  they  might 
'  follow   him,  and  be  of  his  holy    camp,  his  heavenly   lol- 

*  diers,  to  whom  he  gives  I  pi  ritual  arms   and   armour,   the 

*  helmet  of  falvation,  the  bread-plate  of  righteoufnefs,  the 
'  armour  of  light,  and  the  fhield  of  faith,  (which  will  quench 

*  all  the  iiery  darts  of  Satan  and  give  viftory)  and  the  fword 
'  of  the  Spirit,  the  word  of  God,   which  lliail  cut,  hammer 

*  down,  and  burn  up  all  the  Orong  holds  of  Satan.      Alfo 

*  he  clotheth  his  foldiers  with  fine  linen,  white  and  clean, 

*  his  righteoufnefs,  and  flioeth  them  with  the  everlalling 
'  gofpel  of  peace,  the  power  of  God  ;  which  clothes  and 
'  fhoes  will  never  wax  old.  And  all  that  are  fhod  with  the 
'  everiaftmg  gofpel,   the  power  of  God,  will  never  wax  old; 

*  but  will  (land  all  ftorms  and  tempefts  in  the  world.  They 
'  that  are  fhod  with  the  gofpel,   the  power  of  God,  can  in  it 

*  tread  upon  ferpents,  vipers,  and  fcorpions,  and  ail  the  veno- 
'  rnous  beafls  upon  the  earth,  and  all  the  thorns,  briers,  bram- 

*  bles,  thiftles,  fharp  rocks,  and  mountains,  and  never  be 
'  hurt,  nor  never  wear  out  their  fhoes  ;  for  their  feet  were  al- 
'  ways  beautiful  upon  the  mountains.  Mofes,  a  captain, 
'  the  fervant  of  the  Lord,  faid  unto  the  people  of  Ifrael, 
"  I  have  led  you  forty  years  in  the  wildernefs  ;  your  clothes 
"  are  not  waxen  old  upon  you,  and  thy  Ihoe  is  not  waxen 
*'  old  upon  thy  foot,"  Deut.  xxix.  5.  Here  ye  may  fee, 
'  the  Jews  in  the  Old  Teftament,  their  clothes  and  their 
'  fhoes  did  not  wax  old  :  hut  they,  who  are  Chrift's  follow- 
'  ers.   whom  he  fhoeth  with  his  everlalling  gofpel  of  peace, 

*  and  clothcAh  with  hir,  fine  linen,  his  righteoufnefs,  and 
'  arms  with  his  armour,  are  clothed,   inod,   and  armed,  with 

*  that  which  will  never  decay,  wax  old,  canker,  ruft,  cor- 
'  rapt,  nor  grow  blunt.  Now  ail  (whether  Chriflians,  or 
'  Jews,  or  Gentiles)  that  hate  the  light  of  Chrift,  clofe  their 
'  eyes,  aud  flop  their  ears  to  it.  are  not  like  to  fee  Chrill 
'  their  enfign  and  captain  of  their  falvation,  but  are  blind. 
'  As  no  outward  captain  would  liil  a  company  of  blind  and 
'  deaf  men,  and  clothe  and  ann  chcm  with  outward  armour, 
'  fo  fuch  as  are  blind  and  deaf,  vvhofe  c-ycs  are  ciofed,  an4 
'  cars  flopped  to  the  heavenly  light  of  Chrift,  he  is  not  like 
'■  to  clothe  witii  his  fine  linen,  and  ann  wiih  his  heavenly 
'  and  fpiritual  armour;  nor  are  they   hke   to    be  fpintualiy 


1690]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  429 

'  and  heavenly  difciplined,  and  to  fee  and  know  his  holy, 
'  fpiritual,  living  camp,  nor  to  follow  him,  while  they  are 
'  deaf  and   blind,  and  hate   his  light,  which  is   the  life  in 

*  Chrift.      For  it  is  the  light,  that  fhines  in  the  heart,  which 

•  gives  the  knowledge  of  the  glory  of  God  in  the  face  of 
'  Chrift  Jefus ;  who  is  the  enfign  and  captain  of  men's  fal- 
'  vations,  and  who  hath  brought,  and  doth  bring  many 
'  fons  unto  glory  :  praifes,  honour,  and  glory  be  unto  the 
'  Lord  over  all,  who  liveth  for  ever,   Amen. 

'  G.  F.* 
'  Goofes,  the  14th  of  the 
'  2d  month,  1690.' 

A  week  after  this  I  returned  to  London  ;  and  after  a  little 
ftay  there,  went  to  vifit  friends  at  Kuii^flon,  where  I  ftaid 
not  long  ;  but  came  back  to  London,  and  remained  in  the 
Lord's  work,  till  after  the  yearly  meeting,  v^hich  was  in  the 
fourth  month  this  year;  in  which  the  wonted  goodnefs  of 
the  Lord  was  witnelfed,  his  bleifed  prefence  enjoyed,  and 
his  heavenly  power  livingly  felt,  opening  the  hearts  of  his 
people  unto  him,  and  his  divine  treafures  of  life  and  wifdoni 
in  and  unto  them ;  whereby  many  ufeful  and  neceflary 
things,  relating  to  the  fafety  of  friends,  and  to  the  honour 
and  profperity  of  truth,  were  weightily  treated  of,  and  una- 
nimoufly  concluded. 

After  the  meeting,  I  wrote  the  following  paper  to  friends, 
to  be  added  to  the  epiftle,  which  from  the  yearly  meeting 
was  fent  into  the  feveral  counties. 

*  All  friends  every  where,  that  are  alive  to  God  thro' 
'  -/jL  jefus  Chrift,  and  are  living  members  of  Chrift  the 
'  holy  head ;  be  ftill,  and  ftand  ftiU  in  the  Lord's  camp  of 

holinefs  and  righteoufnefs,  and  therein  fee  the  falvation 
'  of  God.  and  your  eternal  life,  reft,  and  peace.  In  it  you 
'  may  feel  and  fee  the  Lord's  power  is  over  all ;  and  how 
'  the  Lord  is  at  work  in  his  power,  ruling  the  nations  with 
'  his  rod  of  iron,  and  breaking  (in  the  nations)  the  old  leaky 
•'  veftels  and  cifterns  to  pieces,  like  the  potter's  vcffels,  that 
'  will  not  hold  his  living  water  ol"  life,  who  are  erred  from 
"  the  Spirit.  But  bleftcd  be  the  Lord  God  of  heaven  and 
'  earth,  who  by  his  eternal  arm  and  power  hath  fettled  all 
•'  his  people  upon  the  living,  holy  rock  and  foundation,  that 

•  ftands  fure;  whom  he  hath  drawn  by  his  Spirit  to  his  Son, 
'  and  gathered  into  the  name  of  Jefus  Chnft,   his  only-be- 


430  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [169© 

*  gotten  Son,  full  of  grace  and  truth :   who  hath  all  power 

*  in  heaven  and  earth  given  to  him.  Whofe  name  is  above 
'  every  name  under  the  whole  heaven,  and  all  his  living 
'  members  know,   there  is  no  falvation  given  by  any  other 

*  name  under  the  whole  heaven,  but  by  the  name  of  Jefus ; 
'  and  he,  their  falvation,  and  their  living  head,  is  felt  in  the 
'  midfl  of  them  in  his  light,  life,  fpirit,  grace,  and  truth,  and 
'  his  word  of  patience,  wifdom,  and  power:  who  is  his  peo- 

*  pie's  prophet,  that  God  hath  raifed  up,  in  his  New  Tefta- 
'  raent  and  covenant,  to  open  to  them ;  and  their  living 
'  fhepherd,    that    hath  purchafed,    redeemed,    and   bought 

*  them  with  his  precious  blood.  Chrift,  the  living  One, 
'  feeds  his  living  fheep  in  his  living  paftures  of  life,  and  his 

*  living  fhecp  know  their  living  fhepherd's  voice,  with  his 
'  living  bread  and  water,  and  follow  him ;  and  will  not  fol- 
'  low  any  of  the  world's  hirelings,  nor  thieves,  nor  robbers, 
'  nor  climbers,  that  are  without  Chrift,  the  door.     Likewife 

*  Chrift's  living  children  know  Chrift,  the  bifhop  of  their 
'  fouls,  to  overfee  them  with  his  heavenly  and  fpiritual  eye, 
'  that  they  may  be  preferved  in  his  fold  of  life,  and  go  no 

*  more  forth.     Alfo  they  know   Chrift,   their  holy  prieft, 

*  that  by  the  grace  of  God  tafted  death  for  them,  and  for 

*  every  man,  and  is  a  propitiation  for  their  fms ;  and  not 

*  for  theirs  only,  but  for  the  fms  of  the  whole  world :  and 
'  by  the  one  offering  up  of  himfelf  he  hath  perfeded  for 

*  ever  them  that  are  fanftified.  Such  an  high-prieft  be- 
'  comes  Chrift's  fheep  in  his  new  covenant  and  teftament, 
'  who  is  holy,  harmlefs,  and  feparate  from  ftnners,  and  is 
'  made  higher  than  the  heavens ;   who  is  not  made  a  prieft 

*  after  the  order  of  Aaron  with  his  tithes,  offerings,  &c.  but 

*  he  makes  an  end  of  all  thofe  things,  having  abolifhed  them, 
'  and  is  made  an  high-prieft  after  the  power  of  an  endlefs 
'  life,   who  ever  liveth  to  make  intercelTion  for  his  people; 

*  and  is  able  to  fave  to  the  uttermoft,  all  that  come  to  God 
'  through  him.  He  is  the  one  holy  mediator  betwixt  God 
'  and  man,  v.'ho  fanctifies  his  people,  his  church,  that  he  is 
'  head  of,  and  pvefents  them  to  God  without  fpot,  or  wrin- 
'  kie,  or  blemifh,  or  any  f«ch  thing ;  and  makes  them  an 
=  lipiy,  royal  priefthood,  to  olfer  up  fpiritual,  holy  facrifices, 
'  acceptable   to  God  by    jefus  Chrifl,   who  is  King  of  all 

*  kings,  and  Lord  of  all  lords  in  the  earth.     So  an  holy, 

*  heavenl)^  ^'"g>  ^'^^o  l^^th  all  power  in  heaven  and  earth 

*  given  to  liirn ;  and  rules  in  all  the  hearts  of  his  fheep  and 

*  iaiTibs  bv  h:$  holy,  divine.  pr;.'cious  faith,  that  is  held  in 


1690]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL*  43^ 

*  all  the  pure  confciences  of  his  people :   which  holy  faith, 

*  Chrift,  the  holy  one,  is  the  author  and  finifher  of.     By 

*  this  holy  faith  all  the  juft  live,  in  which  hoiy,  divine,  pre- 

*  cious  faith  all  the  juft  and  holy  ones  have  unity ;  and  by 
'  it  quench  all  the  fiery  darts  of  Satan ;  and  have  accefs  to 
'  the  pure  God,  in  which  they  pleafe  him.  Chrift,  who  is 
'  fet  on  the  right  hand  of  the  throne  of  the  Majefty  in  the 
'  heavens,  in  his  New  Teftament  and  new  covenant,  is  the 
'  minifter  of  the  lanftuary  and  true  tabernacle,  which  the  Lord 
'  hath  pitched,  and  not  man.  Therefore  all  the  lambs  and 
'  ftieep  of  Chrift  muft  feel  this  holy  minifter  in  their  temple 
'  and  fan6luary,  who  minifters  ipiritual,  holy,  and  heavenly 

*  things  to  them  in  their  fanduary  and  tabernacle.  For  all 
'  the  tabernacles  and  fan6luaries,  that  are  built  or  pitch'd 

*  by  man,  men  make  minifters  for  them ;  and  fuch  minifters 
'  are  of  men  and  by  men,  with  their  worldly  fan6luaries  and 

*  tabernacles  of  men's  pitching,  by  men's  hands. 

'  And  now,  dear  friends  and  brethren  every  where,  that 
'  are  of  the  flock  of  Chrift  :  Chrift  our  palfover  is  facrificed 
'  for  us.  Therefore  let  us  all  keep  this  heavenly  feaft  of 
'  our  paflbver  in  his  new  teftament  and  covenant,  not  with 
'  old  leaven,  neither  of  malice  nor  wickednefs  ;   but  let  all 

*  that  be  purged  out,  with  the  four  old  leavened  bread,  that 
'  all  may  become  a  new  lump  :  and  fo  keep  this  heavenly 
'  feaft  of  Chrift,  our  heavenly  Paflbver,  with  the  unleavened 
'  bread  of  fincerity  and  truth,  Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 

I  ftaid  in  town  between  three  weeks  and  a  month,  after 
the  yearly  meeting,  and  then  went  to  Tottenham- High- 
Crofs,  where  was  a  meeting  on  firft-day,  which  I  was  at ; 
and  then  went  to  Edward  Man's  at  Ford-Green  near 
Winchmore-Hill :  and  the  firft-day  following  to  the  meet- 
ing at  Enfield ;  where  the  Lord  gave  me  many  precious 
openings  to  declare  to  the  people.  Afterwards,  moving  to 
and  fro  amongft  friends  thereabouts,  I  vifited  the  meetings 
at  Chefshunt,  Waltham- Abbey,  Enfield,  Tottenham,  and 
Winchmore-Hill  frequently;  the  Lord  being  with  mc,  and 
opening  many  deep  and  weighty  truths,  divine  and  heaven- 
ly myfteries  to  his  people  through  me,  to  their  great  re- 
freftiment,  and  my  joy.  After  fome  time  I  went  to  Hert- 
ford, to  vifit  friends  there;  and  was  at  their  meeting  on  a 
firft-day.  And  having  fomething  more  particular  upon  mc 
to  the  ancient  friends  of  that  place,   1  had  a  meeting  with 


432  GEORGE    F  O  X's    JOURNAL.  [1690 

fome  of  them  the  next  day,  and  imparted  to  them  what  the 
Lord  had  given  me  for  them.  Then  palTing  to  Ware,  I 
made  a  Httle  flay  amongft  friends  there,  and  was  at  their 
meeting.  After  which,  returning,  amongfl  friends  about 
Edmonton  fide  and  Tottenham,  and  taking  meetings  as  I 
went,  I  came  back  to  London  in  the  end  of  the  leventh 
month. 

I  remained  at  London  till  the  beginning  of  the  ninth 
month,  being  continually  exercifed  in  the  work  of  the  Lord, 
either  in  pub'ick  meetings,  opening  the  way  of  truth  to  peo- 
ple, and  buildmg  up  and  elbblifhmg  friends  therein,  or  in 
other  fervices  relating  to  the  chuich  of  God.  For  the  par- 
liament now  fitting,  and  having  a  bill  before  them  concern- 
ing oaths,  and  another  concerning  clandeftine  marriages, 
feveral  friends  did  attend  the  houfe,  to  get  thofe  bills  fo 
worded,  that  they  might  not  be  hurtful  to  friends.  In  this 
fervice  I  alfo  affilled,  attending  on  the  parliament,  and  dif- 
courfing  the  matter  with  ieveral  of  the  members. 

Having  (laid  more  than  a  month  in  London,  and  much 
fpent  myfelf  in  thefe  fervices,  I  went  to  Tottenham,  and 
fome  time  after  to  Ford-Green.  At  which  places  1  con- 
tinued feveral  weeks,  vifiting  friends  meetings  round  about 
at  Tottenham,  Enfield,  and  Winchmore-Hill.  In  this 
time  feveral  things  came  upon  me  to  write  :  whereof  one 
was  an  epiflle  "  to  friends  in  the  miniflry  ;"   as  followeth  : 

*  A    LL  friends   in   the   miniftry  every   where,   to  whom 

*  l\.  God  hath  given  a  gift  of  the  miniflry,  and  who  uTe 
'  to  travel  up  and  down  in  the  gift  of  the  miniflry,  do  not 
"  hide  your  talent,  nor  put  your  light  under  a  bufhel  ;  nor 
"  camber  yourfelves,  nor  entangle  yourfelves  with  the  af- 
"  fairs  of  this  world."      For  the  natural  foldiers  are  not  to 

*  camber  themfelves  with  the  world  ;   much  iefs  the  foldiers 

*  of  Chriil,   who  are  not  of  this  world  ;  but  are  to  mind  the 

*  riches  and  glory  of  the  world  that  is  everlailing.      There- 

*  fore  ilir  up  the  gift  of  God  in  you,  improve  it,  and  do  not 

*  fit  down,   Demas   like,  and  embrace'  this  prefent   world, 

*  that  will  have  an  end  ;  left  ye  b'^come  idolaters.     Be  va- 

*  liant  for  God's  truth  upon  the  earth,   and  fpread  it  abroad 

*  in  the  day-light  of  Chrift,  you  who  have  fought  the  king- 
'  dom  of  God,  and  the  righteoufnefs  thereof,  and  have  re- 
'  ceived  it  and  preached  it ;  which  "  flands  in  righteoufnefs 
"  and  peace,  and  joy  in  the  Holy  Ghod  :"  As  able  minif- 
'  ters  of  the  Spirit  fow  to  the  Spirit,  that  of  the  Spirit  ye 


1690]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  433 

*  may  reap  life  everlafting.      Go  on  in  the   Spirit,   plowing 

*  with  it  in  the  purifying  hope  ;  and  threfhing,  with  the 
'  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  the  wheat  out  of  the  chatF  of 
'  corruption,  in  the  fame  hope.  For  he  that  looks  back 
'  from  the  fpiritual  plow  into  the  world,  is  not  lit  for  the 
'  fpiritual  and  everlafling  kingdom  of  God  ;  and  is  not  like 
'  to  prefs  into  it,  as  the  faithful  do.  Therefore  you  that  are 
'  awakened  to  righteoufnefs,  and  to  the  knowledge  of  the 
'  truth,  keep  yourfelves  awakened  in  it :  then  the  enemy 
'  cannot  low  his  tares  in  your  field  ;  for  truth  and  righteouf- 
'  ncfs  is  over  him,  and  before  he  was.  My  defires  are, 
'  that  ail  may  fulfil  their  miniilry,  that  the  Lord  Jefus 
'  Chrift  hath  committed  to  them  ;  and  then  by  the  blood 
'  (or  life)  and  teftimony  of  Jefus  you  will  overcome  tlis 
'  enemy  that  oppofes  it,  within  and  without.  All  you  that 
'  preach  the  truth,  do  it  as  it  is  in  Jefus,  in  love  ;  and  all 
'  that  are  believers  in  Jefus,  and  receivers  of  him,  he  gives 
'  them  power  to  become  the  Sons  of  God,  and  joint-heirs 
'  with  Chrift ;  whom  he  calleth  brethren ;  and  he  gives 
'  them  the  water  of  life,  which  fhall  be  a  well  in  them, 
'  fpringing  up  to  eternal  life  ;  that  they  may  water  the  fpi- 
'  ritual  plants  of  the  living  God.  So  that  all  may  be  fpirit- 
'  ual  planters,  and  fpiritual  waterers ;  and  may  fee  with  the 

*  fpiritual  eye  the  everlalling,  eternal  God  over  all  to  give 
'  the  increafe,  who  is  the  infinite  fountain.  My  defires  are, 
'  that  you  may  be  kept  out  of  all  the  beggarly  elements  of 
'  the  world,  which  is  below  the  fpiritual  region,  to  Chrift 
'  the  head;  and  may  hold  him,  who  brnifeth  the  head  of 
'  enmity,  and  was  before  it  was ;  that  ye  may  all  be  united 
'  together  in  love,  in  your  head,  Chrift,  and  be  ordered  by 
'  his  heavenly,  gentle,  peaceable  wildom  to  the  glory  of 
'  God.  For  all  that  be  in  Chrift,  are  in  love,  peace,  and 
'  unity.  In  him  they  are  ftrong,  and  in  a  full  perfuafion  ; 
'  and  in  him,  who  is  the  firft  and  laft,  they  ars  in  a  fieaven- 
'  ly  relolution  and  confidence  for  God's  everlafting  honour 

*  and  glory.   Amen. 

'  From  him,  who  is  iranflated  into  the  kingdom   of  his 

*  dear  Son,  with  all  his  faints,   a  heave^Jy   falutation. 
'  And  falute  one  another  with  a  holy  kits  of  charity, 

•  that  never  faileth. 


G.   F.' 


*  Ford-Green,  the  2r,th  of  the 
'  9th  month.   1690.' 

Vox.     II.  Q    I 


434  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1690 

Another  epiftle  I  wrote  foon  after,  more  particularly  to 
the  friends  in  the  miniflry,  that  were  gone  into  America : 
after  this  manner. 

'  T^E^J^  friends  and  brethren,  miniflers,  exhorters,  and 

*  X^  admonifliers,  that  are  gone  into  America  aod  the 
'  in  inds  thereaway.  Stir  up  the  gift  of  God  in  you,  and 
'  the  pure  mind,  and  improve  your  talents ;  that  ye  may  be 
'  the  light  of  the  world,  a  city  fet  upon  an  hill,  that  cannot 
'  be  hid.  Let  your  light  fhine  among  the  Indians,  the 
'  Blacks  and  the  Whites;  that  ye  may  anfwer  the  truth  in 
'  them,  and  bring  them  to  the  ftandard  and  enfign,  that 
'  God  hath  fet  up,  Chrift  Jefus.  For  from  the  riling  of 
'  the  fan  to  the  going  down  of  the  fame,  God's  name  Oiall 
'  be  great  among  the  Gentiles ;  and  in  every  temple,  or 
'  fanttified  heart,  "  incenfe  fhall  be  offered  up  to  God's 
"  name."  And  have  fait  in  yourfclves,  that  ye  may  be  the 
'  fait  of  the  earth,  that  ye  may  fait  it;  that  it  may  be  pre- 
'  fervcd  from  corruption  and  putrefaction  :  fo  that  all  facri- 
'  ficrs  offered  up  to  the  Lord  may  be  feafoned,  and  be  a 
'  good  favour  to   God.      All  grow  in  the  faith  and  grace  of 

*  Chrift,  that  ye  may  not  be  like  dwarfs;  for  a  dwarf  fliall 
'  not  come  near  to  offer  upon  God's  altar;  though  he  may 
'  eat  af  God's  bread,  that  he  may  grow  by  it.  And  friends, 
'  be  not  negligent,  but  keep  up  your  Negroes  meetings  and 
'  your  family-meetings ;  and  have  meetings  with  the  Indian 
'  kings,  and  their  councils  and  fubjefts  every  where,  and 
'  with  others.  Bring  them  all  to  the  baptizing  and  circum- 
'  cifing  Spirit,  by  which  they  may  know  God,  and  ferve 
'  and  worfnip  him.  And  all  take  heed  of  fitting  down  in 
'  the  earth,  and  having  your  minds  in  the  earthly  things, 
'  co^'cting  and  fhiving  for  the  earth  :  for  to  be  carnally  mind- 
'  ed  brings  death,  and  covetoufneis  is  idolatry.  There  is 
'  too  much   ftrife  and   contention    about   that  idol,    which 

*  makes  too  many  go  out  of  the  fenfe  and  fear  of  God  ;  lb 
'  that  fome  have  loll  morality,  humanity,  and  true  Chrif- 
'  tizn  charity.  O  therefore,  be  awakened  to  righteoulhefs, 
'  and  keep  awakened  ;  for  the  enemy  foweth  his  tares,  while 
'  men  and  women  fleep  in  carelefTnefs  and  fccurity.  There- 
'  fore  fo  many  flothful  ones  go  in  their  filthy  rags,  and  have 
'  not  the  fine  linen,  the  righteoufnefs  of  Chrill;  but  arc 
'  flragvling,  and  plowing  with  their  ox  and  their  afs,  in 
'  their  woollen  and  linen  garments,  mixt  llufr.  feeding  upon 
'  torn  food,  and  thac   dieth  of  itfeif,  and  drinking  of  the 


1690]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  435 

*  dref^s  of  their  old  bottle,  and  eating  the  four,  leavened 

*  bread,  which  makes  their  hearts  burn  one  againfl  another. 

*  But  all  are  to  keep  the  feaft  of  Chrill,  our  paifover,  with 
'  the  unleavened  bread  of  fincerity  and  truth.  This  un- 
'  leavened  bread  of  Life  from  heaven  makes  all  hearts  and 

*  fouls  glad  and  joyful,  lightfome  and  cheerful,  to  fcrve  and 
'  love  God,  and  to  love  and  ferve  one  another  in  the  peace- 
'  able  truth,  and  to  keep   in   the   unity   of  God's    Spirit, 

*  which  is  the  bond  of  (the  Lord  of  lords,  and  the  King  of 
'  kings)  peace.  In  this  love  and  peace  God  Almighty  keep 
'  and  preierve  all  his  people,  and  make  them  valiant  for  his 
'  truth  upon  the  earth,  to  fpread  it  abroad  in  do£trine,  good 
'  life  and  converfation.   Amen. 

'  All  the  members  of  Chrifl  have  need  one  of  another. 
'  For  the  foot  hath  need  of  the  hand,  and  the  hand  hath 
'  need  of  the  foot :  the  ear  hath  need  of  the  eye,  and  the  eye 

*  of  the  ear.  So  that  all  the  members  are  ferviceable  in  the 
'  body  which  Chnft  is  the  head  of;  and  the  head  fees  their 
'  fervice.     Therefore  let  none  defpife  the  ieaft  member. 

'  Have  a  care  to  keep  down  that  greedy  earthly  mind, 
'  that    raveneth   and   coveteth   after  the   riches   and   things 

*  of  this  world ;  left  ye  fall  into  the  low  region,  like  the 
'  gentiles  or  heathen,  and  fo  lofe  the  kingdom  of  God 
'that   is  everlafting:    but  feek  that  firft,    and  God  knows 

*  what  ye  have  need  of;  who  takes  care  for  all  both  in  hea- 
'  ven  and  in   the  earth  :    thanks  be  unto  God  for  his  un- 

*  fpeakable  gifts,  both  temporal  and  fpiritual ! 

^  G.  F.' 
'  Tottenham,  the  1  ith  of  the 
'  10th  month,  1690.' 

Not  long  after  I  returned  to  London,  and  was  almofl 
daily  with  friends  at  meetings.  When  I  had  been  near  two 
weeks  in  town,  the  fenfe  of  the  great  hardihips  and  fore  fuf- 
ferings  that  friends  had  been  and  were  under  in  Ireland 
coming  with  great  weight  upon  me,  I  was  moved  to  write 
the  following  epiftle,  as  a  word  of  confolation  unto  them  : 

DEAR  friends  and  brethren  in  the  Lord  Jcfus  Chrift, 
whom  the  Lord  by  his  eternal  arm  and  power  hath 
''  upheld  through  your  great  fufferings,  exercifes,  trials,  and 
'  hardfhips  (more,  I  believe,  than  can  be  uttered)  up  and 
'  down  that  nation,  which  I  am  very  fenfible  of;  and  the 
'  reft  of  faithful  friends  that  have  been  partakers  wiih  you 
312 


43^  G  E  0  P.  G  E     F  O  X's     JOUR  N  A  L.  [1695 

'  in  )'our  fufFerlngs  :  v/ho  cannot  but  fuffer  with  the  Lord's 

*  people  that  fuffer.  My  confidence  hath  been  in  the  Lord, 
'  that  he  would  and  will  fupport  you  in  all  your  fufferings; 

*  and  that  he  would  preferve  all  the  faithful  in  his  ivifdom, 
'  that  they  might  give  no  juft  occafion  to  one  nor  other  tQ 
'  make  them  fuffer;  and  if  you  did  fuffer  wrongfully  or  im- 

*  ju{lly,  that  the  righteous  God  would  affift  and  uphold 
'  you ;  and  reward  them  accorduig  to  their  works,  that  op- 

*  preffed  or  wronged  you.      And  now  my  defire  is  unto  the 

*  Lord,  that  in  the  fame  holy  and  heavenly  wifdom  of  God 

*  ye  may  all  be  preferved  to  the  end  of  your  days,  to  the 
'  glory  of  God,  minding  his  fupporting  hand  and  power; 
'  who  is  God  All-fufHcient,  to  ftrengthen,  help,  and  refrefh 
'  in  time  of  need.  Let  none  forget  the  Lord's  mercies  and 
'  kindnelles,  which  endure  for  ever:  but  always  live  in  the 
'  fenfe  of  them.  And  truly,  friends,  when  I  conlider  the 
'  thing,  it  is  the  great  mercy  of  the  Lord  that  ye  have  not 
'  been  all  fwal lowed  up,  feeing  with  what  fpirits  ye  have 
'  beeri  compaiTcd  about.     But  the  Lord  carneth  his  lambs 

*  in  his  arms,  and  they  are  as  tender  to  him  as  the  apple  of 

*  his  eye;   and  his  power  is  his  hedge  about  his  vineyard  of 

*  heavenly  plants.  Therefore  it  is  good  for  all  his  children 
'  to  be  given  up  to  the  Lord  with  their  minds  and  fouls, 

*  hearts   and   fpirits,    who   is  a  faithful  keeper,    that  never 

*  flumbers  nor  ileeps ;  but  is  able  to  preferve  and  keep  you, 
'  and  to  favc  to  the  utmofc,  and  none  can  hurt  fo  much  as 
'  an  hair  of  your  heads,  except  be  fuffer  it,  to  try  you ;  for 
'  he  upholds  all  things  in  heaven  and  earth,  by  the  Word 
'  of  his  power:   ail  things  were  made  by  Chnft  :    and  by 

*  him  all  things  confifl  (mark,  conhic)  whether  they  be  vifi-. 
'  bles  or  invifibles,  &c.  So  he  hath  power  over  ail ;  for  all 
^  power  in  heaven  and  earth  is  given  to  him  :  and  to  you, 
'  that  have  received  him,  he  hath  given  power  to  become 
'  the  fons  and  daughters  of  God ;  fo  living  members  of 
'  Chrift,  the  living  head,  grafted  into  him  in  whom  ye  have 
'  eternal  life.     Chrift  the  Seed  reigns,  and  his  power  is  over 

*  all;  who  bruiies  the  ferpent's  head,  and  deilroys  the  devii 
'  and  his  works,  and  was  before  he  was.  So  all  of  you  live 
'  and  walk  in  Chrift  Jefus ;  that  nothing  may  be  between 
'  you  and  God,  but  Chrifi,  in  whom  ye  have  falvation,  life, 
'  reft,  and  peace  with  God. 

'  As  for  the  affairs  of  truth  in  this  land  and  abroad,  I 
"  hear,  that  in  Holland  and  Germany,  and  thereaway,  friends 
^  are  in  Ipve,  unity,  and  peace :  and  in  Jamaica.  Barbaiaes^ 


1690]  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  437 

•  Nevis,  Antigua,  Maryland,  and  New  England,  I  hear 
'  nothing,  but  friends  are  in  unity  and  peace.  The  Lord 
'  preferve  them  all  out  of  the  world  (in  which  there  is  trou- 
'  ble)  in  Chrifl  Jefus,  in  whom  there  is  peace,  life,  love, 
'  and  unity,  Amen.  My  love  in  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrifl;  to 
'  all  friends  every  v*here  in  your  land,  as  though  I  named 

*  them. 

'  G.  F.' 
'  London,  the  10th  of  the 
*  11th  month,  iGqvO.' 


DEATH     AND     BURIAL. 

THUS,  reader,  thou  haft  had  fome  account  of  the  life 
and  travels,  labours,  fufferings,  and  manifold  trials  and 
exercifes  of  this  holy  man  of  God,  from  his  youth  to  al- 
moft  the  time  of  his  death  :  Of  which  himfelf  kept  a  jour- 
nal ;  whence  the  foregoing  fheets  were  tranfcribed.  It  re- 
mains, that  an  account  be  added  of  the  time,  place,  and 
manner  of  his  death  and  burial;   which  was  thus  : 

The  next  day,  after  he  had  written  the  foregoing  epiftle 
to  friends  in  Ireland,  he  went  to  the  meeting  at  Grace- 
church-ftreet,  which  was  large  (it  being  on  the  firft-day  of 
the  week) :  and  the  Lord  enabled  him  to  preach  the  truth 
fully  and  efFetlually.  opening  many  deep  and  weighty 
things  with  great  power  and  clearnefs.  After  which  hav- 
ing prayed,  and  the  meeting  being  ended,  he  went  to  Hen- 
ry Gouldney's  (a  friend's  houfe  in  White-hart  Court,  near 
the  meeting-houfe) :  and  fome  friends  going  with  him,  he 
told  them,  '  He  thought  he  felt  the  cold  ftrike  to  his  heart, 
^  as  he  came  out  of  the  meeting;'  yet  added,  '  I  am  glad  I 
'  v/as  here ;  now  I  am  clear,  I  am  fully  clear.'  As  foon  as 
thofe  friends  were  withdrawn,  he  laid  down  upon  a  bed 
(as  he  fometimes  ufed  to  do,  through  wearinefs  after  a  meet- 
ing) but  foon  rofe  again  ;  and  in  a  little  time  laid  down 
agam.,  complaining  ftill  of  cold.  And  his  ftrength  fenhbly 
decaying,  he  was  fain  foon  after  to  go  into  the  bed  ;  where 
h©  lay  in  much  contentment  and  peace,  and  \'ery  fenllble 
to  the  laft.  And  as,  in  the  whole  courfe  of  liis  life,  his 
f|)irit,  in  the  univeriV.l  love  cf  God^  vras  fet;  and  bent  for  thQ 


438  GEORGE     F  O  X's    JOURNAL.  [1690 

exalting  of  truth  and  righteoufners,  and  the  making  known 
the  way  thereof  to  the  nations  and  people  afar  oflF  ;  fo  now, 
in  the  time  of  his  outward  weaknefs,  his  mind  was  intent 
upon,  and  wholly  taken  up  with  that :  and  he  fent  for  fome 
particular  friends,  to  whom  he  expreffed  his  mind,  and  de- 
fire  for  the  fpreading  friends  books,  and  truth  thereby  in 
the  world.  Divers  friends  came  to  vifit  him  in  his  ilinefs, 
unto  fome  of  whom  he  faid,  '  All  is  well :  the  Seed  of  God 
'  reigns  over  all,  and  over  death  itfelf.  And  though,'  faid 
he,  *  I  am  weak  in  body  :  yet  the  power  of  God  is  over 
*  aii,  and  the  Seed  reigns  over  all  diforderly  fpirits.'  Thus 
lying  in  an  heavenly  frame  of  mind,  his  fpirit  wholly  exer- 
cifed  toward;!  the  Lord,  he  grev/  weaker  and  weaker  in  his 
natural  flrengili ;  and  on  the  third  day  of  that  week,  be- 
tween the  hours  of  nine  and  ten  in  the  evening,  he  quietly 
departed  this  life  in  peace,  and  fw«etly  fell  afleep  in  the 
Lord,  whofe  bleffed  truth  he  had  livingly  and  powerfully 
preached  in  the  meeting  but  two  days  before.  Thus  ended 
he  his  day  in  his  faithful  tefiimony,  in  perfeft  love  and  unity 
with  his  brethren,  and  in  peace  and  good-v/ill  to  all  m.en, 
on  the  1  3th  of  the  1  ith  month  1690,  being  then  in  the  67th 
year  of  his  age. 

Upon  the  16th  of  the  fame  month  (being  the  fixth  of  the 
week,  and  the  day  appointed  for  his  funeral)  a  very  great 
concourfe  of  friends,  and  other  people  of  divers  forts,  aliem- 
bied  together  at  the  meeting-houfe  in  White-hart  Court 
near  Gracechurch-ftreet,  about  the  middle  time  of  the  day,  in 
order  to  attend  his  body  to  the  grave.  The  meeting  was  held 
about  two  hours  with  great  and  heavenly  folemnity,  mani- 
feftly  attended  with  the  Lord's  bleffed  prefence  and  glorious 
power;  in  which  divers  living  teflimonics  were  deJiv'ered, 
from  a  lively  remembrance  and  fenfe  of  the  bleffed  miniftry 
of  this  dear  and  ancient  fervant  of  the  Lord,  his  early  en- 
tering into  the  Lord's  work  at  the  breaking  forth  of  this  gof- 
pel  day,  his  innocent  life,  long  and  great  travels,  and  un- 
wearied labours  of  love  in  the  everlafting  gofpel,  for  the 
turning^and  gathering  many  thoufands  from  darknefs  to  llie 
light  of  Chrill  Jefus,  the  foundation  of  true  faith  ;  the  mani- 
fold fuffcrings,  affliftions,  and  oppolitions,  which  he  met 
withal  for  his  faithful  tefiimony,  both  from  his  open  adver- 
faries  and  from  falfe  brethren;  and  his  prefervations,  deli- 
verances, and  dominion  in,  out  of,  and  over  them  all,  by 
the  power  of  God:  to  whom  the  glory  and  honour  always 
was  by  him,  and  is  and  always  ought  to  be  bv  all  afcribed. 


t69o]  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  439 

After  the  meeting  was  ended,  his  body  was  borne  by 
friends,  and  accompanied  by  very  great  numbers,  to  friends 
burying-ground  near  Bunhill  fields  :  where,  a'tsr  a  folemn 
waiting  upon  the  Lord,  and  feveral  hving  teflimonies  boine, 
recommending  the  company  to  the  guidance  and  prote£lion 
of  that  divine  Spirit  and  pov/er,  by  which  this  holy  man  of 
God  had  been  raifedup,  furnilhed,  fupported  and  preferv- 
ed  to  the  end  of  his  day,  his  body  was  decently  committed 
to  the  earth ;  but  his  memorial  (hall  remain,  and  be  cver- 
laftingly  blelfed  among  the  righteous. 


An  epiflle  of  dear  George  Fox's,  writ  with  his  own 
hand,  and  left  fealed  up  with  this  fuperfcription,  viz. 
'  Not  to  be  opened  before  the  time  ;'  which  after  his  de- 
ceafe  being  opened,  was  thought  meet  to  be  printed,  viz. 

'  For  the  yearly  and  Second-day's  meeting  in  London, 
'  and  to  all  the  children  of  God  in  all  places  in  the 
'  world.     By  and  from  G.   F. 

•  This  for  all  the  children  of  God  every  where,  who  are 
'  led  by  his   Spirit,  and  walk  in  his  light,  in  which 

*  they  have  life,  unity,  and  feilowfnip  with  the  Fa- 

*  ther  and  the  Son,  and  one  with  another. 

'  T7'  EEP  all  your  meetings  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus, 
'  1\l.  that   be    gathered   in   his  name   by  his   light,  grace, 

•  truth,  power,  and  Spirit ;  by  which  you  will  feel  his  blef- 
'  fed  and  refrelhing  pr.-fence  among  you  and  in  you,  to 
'  your  comfort  and  God's  glory. 

*  And  now  friends,  all  your  meetings,  both  men's  and 
•'  women's,  monthly,  quarterly,  and  yearly,  &r.  were  fet 
'  up  by  the  pov>?er,  Spirit,  and  wifdom  ot  God  ;  and  in 
'  them  you  know  that  you  have  felt  his  power,  and  Spi- 
'  rit,  and  vvifdom,  and  bleiTed  refrefiiing  prefence  ^  among 

•  you,  and  in  you,  to  his  praife  and  glory,  and  your  com- 
'  fort  :  fo  that  you  have  been  a  "  city  i'tt  on  a  hill,  that 
"  cannot  be  hid." 

'  And  although  many  loofc  and  unruly  fpiiits  have  rifcn 
•'  betimes  to  oppofc  you  and  them,  in  print  and  other  ways, 
"'  you  have  feen  how  they  have  come  to  nougliL  '1  lie 
'  Lord  hath  blafted  them,   broug'it  their  deeds  to  li^ht,  and 


440  GEORGE    FOX's     JOURNAL.  [169a 

*  made  them  manifefl  to  be  trees  without  fruit,  wells  with- 

*  out  water,  wandering  ftars  from  the  firmament  of  God's 
'  power,  and  raging  waves  of  the  fea,  cafting  up  their  mire 
'  and  dirt ;  and  many  of  them  are  like  the  dog  turned  to 
'  his  old  vomit,  and  the  fow  that  was  wafhed,  turned  again 
'  to  the  mire.  This  hath  been  the  condition  of  many,  God 
'  knoweth,  and  his  people  ! 

'  Therefore  all  fland  fleadfaft  in  Chrifl  Jefus  your  head, 
'  in  whom  you  are  all  one,  male  and  female,  and  know  his 
'  government,   of    the  increafe   of  whofc    government   and 

*  peace  there  Ihall  be  no  end ;   but  there  will  be  an  end  of 

*  the  devil's,  and  of  all  that  are  out  of  Chrifl:,  who  oppofe 
'  it  and  him,  whofe  judgment  doth  not  linger,  and  their 
'  damnation  doth  not  flurnber.  Therefore  in  God  and 
'  Chrift.'s  light,  life,  Spirit,  and  power  live  and  walk,  that 
'  is  over  all  (and  the  Seed  of  it)  in  love,  in  innocency,  and 
'  fimplicity.  In  righteoufnefs  and  holinefs  dwell,  and  in 
'  his  power  and  Holy  Ghofl,  in  which  God's  kingdom  doth 

*  fland.  All  children  of  new  and  heavenly  Jeruialem,  that 
'  is  from  above,  and  is  free,  with  ail  her  holy  fpiritual  chil- 
'  dren,  to  her  keep  your  eyes. 

'  As  for  this  fpirit  of  rebellion  and  oppofition  that  hath 
'  rifen  formerly  and  lately,  it  is  out  of  the  kingdom  of  God 
'  and  heavenly  Jerufalem;  and  is  for  judgment  and  con- 
'  demnation,  with  all  its  books,  words,  and  works.  There- 
'  fore  friends  are  to  live  and  walk  in  the  power  and  Spirit 
'  of  God  that  is  over  it,  and  in  the  Seed  that  will  bruife 
'  and  break  it  to  pieces.  In  which  Seed  you  have  joy  and 
'  peace  with  God,  and  power  and  authority  to  judge  it  ; 
'  and  your  unity  is  in  the  power  and  Spirit  of  God,  that 
'  doth  judge  it:  all  God's  witnelTes  in  his  tabernacle  go  out 
'  againfl  it,  and  always  have  and  will. 

'  Let  no  man  live  to  felf,  but  to  the  Lord,  as  they  will 
'  di«  in  him  ;  and  fcek  the  peace  of  the  church  of  Chrifl, 
'  anvd  the  peace  of  all  men  in  him  :  for  "  bleifed  are  the 
"  peace-makers."     Dwell  in  the  pure,  peaceable,  heavenly 

*  wifdom  of  God,  that  is  gentle  and  eafy  to  be  intreated, 
'  that  is  full  of  mercy  ;  all  llriving  to  be  of  one  mind,  heart, 
'  foul,  and  judgment  in  Chrifl,  having  his  mind  and  Spirit 
'  dwelling  in  you,  building  up  one  another  in  the  love  of 

*  God,  which  doth  edify  the  body  of  Chrifl,  his  church, 
'  who  is  the  holy  head  thereof.  Glory  to  God  through 
'  Chrifl,  in  this  age  and  all  other  ages,  who  is  the  Rock 
'  and    Foundation,  the   Emmanuel,    God  with  us,  Amen. 


t69o]  GEORGE    FOX'*    JOURNAL.  441 

*  over  all,  the  beginning  and  the  ending.     In  him  live  and 

*  walk,  in  whom  you  have  life  eternal,  in  him  you  will  feel 

*  me,  and  I  you. 

*  All   children  of  New  Jerufalem,    that  defcends  from 

*  above,  the  holy  city,  which  the  Lord  and  tha  Lamb  is  the 
'  light  of,  and  is  the  temple ;  in  it  they  are  born  again  of 

*  the  Spirit:  fo  Jerufalem  that  is  above,  is  the  mother  of 
'  them  that  are  born  of  the  Spirit.  Thefe  that  come  and 
'  are  come  to  heavenly  Jerufalem,   receive  Chrift ;  and  he 

*  giveth  them  power  to  become  the  fons  of  God  and  they 

*  are  born  again  of  the  Spirit :   fo  Jerufalem  that  is  above, 

*  is  their  mother.  Such  come  to  heavenly  Mount  Sion, 
'  and  the  innumerable  company  of  angels,  to  the  Spirits  of 
'  juft  men  made  perfeft ;  and  to  the  church  of  the  Living 

*  God  written  in  heaven,  and  have  the  name  of  God  written 

*  upon  them.     So  here  is  a  new  mother,  that  bringeth  forth 

*  a  heavenly  and  fpiritual  generation. 

'  There  is  no   fchifm,   no  divifion,    no  contention,    nor 

*  ftrife  in  heavetily  Jerufalem,  nor  in  the  body  of  Chrift, 

*  which  is  made  up  of  living  ftones,  a  fpiritual  houle, 
'  Chrift  is  not  divided,  for  in  him  there  is  peace.      Chiiil 

*  faith,  '•  In  me  you  have  peace."     And  he  is  from  above, 

*  and  not  of  this  world;  but  in  the  world  below,  in  the  fpi- 

*  rit  of  it  there  is  trouble;  therefore  keep  in  Chrift,  and 

*  walk  in  him,   Amen. 

'  G.  F.' 

*  Jerufalem  was  the  mother  of  all  true  chriftians  before 

'the  apoftacy ;  and  fmce  the  outward  chriftian3  arc 
'  broken  into  many  fe6ls,  they  have  got  many  mothers ; 
'  but  all  thofe  that  are  come  out  of  the  apollacy  by 

*  the  power  and  Spirit  of  Chrift,  Jerufalem  that  is 
'  above  is  their  mother  (and  none  below  her;)  who 

*  doth  nourilh  all  her  fpiritual  children. 

*  G.  f: 

Read  at  the  yearly  meeting 
in  London,  1691. 


Reader,    Pleafe  to  note.    That  thefe  following  papers  and 
epiftles  (fome  of  which  being  mentioned  in  the  Journal, 

Vol.  II.  o  K 


442  GEORGE-   FQX's    JOURNAL.  [1676 

vol.    II.  p.   247,  Sec.  and  there  omitted)  are  found  meet 
to  be  here  inferted ;  and  are  as  followeth  : 

A  narrative  of  the  fpreading  of  truth,  and  of  the  oppofition 
from  the  powers  which  then  were,  written  by  George 
Fox,  in  the  year  1676. 

'  T^HE  truth  fprang  up  firfl  to  us,  fo  as  to  be  a  people 
'  A.  to  the  Lord,  in  Leicefterlhire  in  1644,  in  War- 
'  wickfhire  in  1645,  ^^  Nottinghamfhire  in  1646,  in  Derby- 
'  fhire  in  1647,  and  in  the  adjacent  counties  in  1648,  1649, 

*  and  1650;  in  Yorkfhire  in  1651,  in  Lancafliire  and  Well- 
'  moreland  in  1652,  in  Cumberland,  Durham,  and  Nor- 
'  thumberland  in  1653,  in  London  and  moft  of  the  other 
'  parts  of  England,   Scotland,   and  Ireland,  in  1654. 

'  In  1655  many  went  beyond  fea,  where  truth  alfo  fprang 
'  up,  and  in  1656  it  broke  forth  in  America  and  many 
'  other  places. 

'  In  the  authority  of  this  divine  truth  friends  flood  all  the 
'  cruelties  and  fufFerings  that  were  inflifted  upon  them  by 
'  the  long  parliament ;  to  the  fpoiling  of  goods,  imprifon- 
'  ment,  and  death,  and  over  all  reproaches,  lies,  and  flan- 
'  ders  ;  as  well  as  thofe  in  Oliver  Cromwell's  time,  and  all 
"  the  afts  made  by  him  and  his  parliament ;  his  fon  Richard 
'  after  him,  and  the  committee  of  fafety  ;  and  after  withftood 
'  and  outlafted  all  the  ads  and  proclamations  fmcc  1660, 
"  that  the  king  came  in. 

'  Friends  never  feared  their  a6ls,  prifons,  gaols,  houfes  of 
'  Gorretlion,  banifliment,  nor  fpoiling  of  goods,  nay,  nor 
'  the  lofs  of  life  itfelf ;  nor  was  there  ever  any  perfecution 
'  that  came,  but  we  faw  in  the  event  it  would  be  produftive 
'  of  good  ;  nor  were  there  ever  any  prifons  that  I  was  in,  or 
'  fufferings,  but  it  v/as  for  the  bringing  multitudes  out  of 
'  prifon ;     though   they    who    imprifoned    the    truth,     and 

*  quenched  the  Spirit  in  themfeives,  would  imprifon  and 
'  quench  it  without  them ;  fo  that  there  was  a  time  when  fo 

*  many  were  in  prifon,  that  it  became  as  a  bye-word,  "  truth 
"  is  fcarce  any  where  to  be  found  but  in  gaols." 

'  And  after  the  king  came  in,  divers  friends  fuffered- 
'  much,  becaufe  they  would  not  drink  his  health,  and  fay, 
"  God  blefs  the  king;"  fo  that  many  friends  were  in  danger 
'  of  their  lives  from  rude  perfons,  who  were  ready  to  run 
<  them  through  with  their  iWords  for  refuGng  it,  until  the 
'  king  gave   forth  a  proclamation  againil  drinking  healths ; 


1676]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  443 

*  for  we  were  and  are  againft  drinking  any  healths,  and  all 
'  £xcefs,  both  before  his  coming  in  and  after  ;  and  u-e  dc- 

*  lire  the  king's  good,  and   that  the   bleffing  of  God  mii^ht 

*  come  upon  him  and  all  his  fubje6ls,  and  all  people  upon 

*  the  face  of  the  earth ;  but  we  did  defire  people  not  to 
'  drink  the  king's  health,  but  let  him  have  his  health,  and 
'  all  people  elfe ;  and   to   drink   for  their   own   health  and 

*  neceffity  only ;  for  that  way  of  drinking  healths,  and  to 
'  excefs,  was  not  for  the  king's  health,  nor  their  own,  nor 
'  any  others  ;  which  excefs  often  brought  forth  quarrelling 
'  and  deftroying  one  another:  for  they  deflroyed  the  crea- 

*  tion  and  one  another ;  and  this  was  not  for  the  king's 
'  wealth,  nor   health,    nor    honour,  but   might  grieve  him 

*  to  have  the  creatures  and  his  fabjeds  deftroyed ;  and  fo 
'  the  Lord's  power  gave   us  dominion  over  that    alfo,  and 

*  all  our  other  fufferings.     But, 

'  Oh  !   the  number  of  fufferers  in   the  commonwealth's 
'  and  Oliver   Cromwel's  days,  and   fmce ;  efpecially  thofe 

*  who  were  haled  before  the  courts  for  not  paying  tithes,  re- 

*  fufing  to  fwear  on  their  juries,  not  puttmg  off  their  hats, 
'  and  for  going  to  meetings  on  the  firft-days ;  under  pre- 
'  tence  of  breaking   the  fabbath ;  and  to   meetings  on  other 

*  days  of  the  week  ;  who  were  abufed  both  in  meetings  and 
'  on  the  highways. 

'  Oh  !  how  great  were  the  fufFerings  we  then  fuflained  up- 

*  on  thefe  accounts  !  for  fometimes  they  would  drive  friends 
'  by  droves  into  the  prifon-houfes  like  penfolds,  confine 
'  them  on  the  firft-days,  and  take  their  horfes  from   them, 

*  and   keep    them  for    pretended   breach    of   their  fabbath, 

*  though   they  would  ride  in  their  coaches   and  upon   their 

*  fat  horfes  to  the  fteeple-houfes  themfelves,  and  yet  punifli 

*  others.  And  many  friends  were  turned  out  of  their  copy- 
'  holds  and  cuftomary  tenements,  becaufe  in  obedience  to 
'  the  command  of  Chrift  and  his  apoflile,  they  could  not 
'  fwear ;  and  as  they  went  to  meetings,  they  have  been 
'  ftoned  through  the  ftreets,  and  otherwife  cruelly  abuled. 

*  Many  were  fined  with  great  fines,  and  lay  long  in  prifon 

*  for  not  puttmg  off  their  hats,  v/hich  fines  friends  could 
'  never  pay,  though  they  kept  them  in  prifon  till  they  had 
'  fatisfied  their  own  wills,  and  at  laft  turned  them  out,  af- 
'  ter  keeping  them  a  year  or  more  in  prifon. 

'  Many  books  I  gave  forth   againft  tithes,  (hewing   how 

*  the  pricfthood  was  changed  that  took  them ;  and  that 
'  Chrift  fent  forth  his  twelve,  and  afterwards  leventy  difci- 

3  K  2 


444  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  [1676 

*  pies,  faying  unto  them,  "  Freely  ye  have  received,  freely 
**  give."     So  all  who  do  not   obey  the  doftrine  and  com- 

*  mand  of  Chrifl;  therein,  we  cannot  receive  them. 

'  I  was  alfo  moved  to  give   forth   feveral  books  againft 

*  fwearing,  and  that  our  Yea  and   Nay  might  be  taken  in- 

*  Head  of  an  oath,  which  if  we  broke,  let  us  fufFer  the  fame 

*  punilhment   as  they  who  broke  their  oaths.      And  in  Ja- 

*  maica  the   governor  and  the  affembly  granted  the  thing ; 

*  it  is  alfo  granted  in  fome  other  places ;  and  feveral  of  the 

*  parliament-men  in  England  have  acknowledged  the  rea- 
'  fonablenefs   thereof     The  magiftrates,    after   fome   time, 

*  when  they  faw  our  faithfuhiefs  in  Yea  and  Nay,  they  who 

*  were  moderate,  both  before  and  fince  the  king  came  in, 

*  would  put  friends  into  offices  without   an  oath  ;  but  the 

*  cruel  and  envious  would  fine  friends  to  get  mooey  of  them, 
'  though  t])ey  could  not  pay  them  any. 

'  Thas  the  Lord's  power  hath  carried  us  through  all,  and 

*  over  all,  to  his  everlafting  glory  and  praife;  for  God's 
'  power  hath  been  our  hedge,    our  wall  and   our  keeper 

*  (the  preferver  of  his  plants  and  vineyard)  who  have  not 

*  had  the  magiftrates  fword  and  ftafF  to  help  us,  nor  ever 

*  trufted  in  the  arm  of  flefh,  but  have  gone  without  thefe, 
^  or  Judas's  bag,  to  preach  the  word  of  life,  which  was  in 

*  the  liCginning  before  they  were ;  which  word  reconciles  to 

*  God.      And  thoufands  havs  received  this  word  of  reconci- 

*  liatipn,  and  are  born  again  of  the  immortal  Seed,  by  the 

*  Wor(i^f  God  ;  and  are  feeding  upon  the  milk  of  the  word, 

*  which  Ir^es  and  abides  for  ever. 

*  Many  have  lufFered  death  for  their  teftimony,  in  Eng- 

*  land  and  beyond  the  feas,  both  before  and  fince   the  king 

<  came  ip  ;  which   may  be  feen  in  an  account  given  to  the 

*  king  and  bofh  houfes  of  parliament ;  being  a  brief,  plain, 
*■  and  true  relation  of  the  late  and  fad  fufFerings  of  the  peo- 

*  pie  of  God  in  fcorn  called  Quakers,  for  worfhipping  and 
'  exerciling  a  good  con fcicnce  towards  God  and  man, 

'  By  reafon  whereof  eighty-nine  have  fufiFered  till  death, 

*  thirty-tivo  of  which  died  before  the  king  came  into  Eng- 
'  land,  and  fifty-fevcn  lince,  by  hard  imprifonment  and 
'  cruel  ufage.      Forty-three  have  died  in  the  city  of  London 

*  and  Southwaik  fince  the  Aci  made  againft  meetings,  8cc. 
'  about  i66i,  of  which  a  more  particular  account  was  given, 

<  with  the  names  of  the  fufFerers  to  the  king  and  parhament, 

<  about  1663. 

^  And  though  divers  \a\w%  were  defigned  againft  us,  yz% 


i577]  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  445 

*  never  could  any  of  them  juftly  touch  us,  being  wrefted 

*  and   mifapplied   in    their    execution   by   our    adverfaries, 
'  which  fome  have  been  made  to  confefs.     All  thofe  laws 

*  that  were  made,  and  the  oath  which  they  imprifoned  us 
'  for,  becaufe,  in  obedience  to  the  command  of  Chviil  jefus, 

*  we  could  not  fwear  at  all,   were  not  originally  intended 
'  againft  us;  and  yet  we  fufFered  by  the  feveral  powers,  and 

*  their  laws,  both  fpoiling  of  goods  and  imprifonment,  even 

*  to  death.      And  the  governor  of  Dover  caftle,   when  the 

*  king  allied  him  if  he  had  difperfed  all  the  feftaries  meet- 
'  ings  ?  faid,  that  he  had ;  but  the  Quakers,  the  devil  him- 

*  feif  CO. lid  not;  for  if  he  did  imprifon  them,  and  break  up 
'  their  meetings,  they  would  meet  again ;   and  if  he  fhould 

*  beat  them  or  knock  them  down,  or  kill  lome  of  them,  all 

*  was  one.   they  would  meet,  and  not  refift  again.     Thus 

*  the  Lord's  power  did  fupport  and  keep  them  over  their 

*  perfccuLors,  and  made  them  to  juflify  our  patience  and 

*  lamb-like  nature.     This  was  about  1671. 

'  Smce  the  kmg  came  in,  three  a6^s  have  been  made 
'  againft  us,  beild's  the  proclamations,  by  which  many  have 
■  fnfFered  impriff'nrhsnt  and  banilhment,  and  miny  to  death. 

*  And  yet  for  all  thei^  a5ts  and  proclamations,  perfeciitions, 

*  fufferings,  banifhmen-.s,  faithful  friends  are  as  frefh  as  ever 
'  in  the  Lord's  power,  and  valiant  for  his  name  and  truth. 

*  Some  weak  ones  there  v/ere,   when  the  king  came  in, 

*  who  did  take  the  oath ;   but  after  they  had  fo  done,   they 

*  were  fore  troubled  for  difobeying  the  command  of  Chrifl' 

*  and  the  apoftle,  and  went  to  the  magiftrates,  condemned 
'  themfelves,  and  offered  to  go  to  prilon. 

'  Thus  the  Lord,  in  his  everlafting  power,  hath  been  the 

*  fupport  and  ftay  of  his  people;  and  ftiil  his  Seed  reigns, 

*  his  truth  is  over  all,  and  exceedinsly  fpreads  unto  this 
'  year  1676. 

*  A  warning  to  the  magiftrates  and  people  of  the  city  of 

'  Oldenburg  : 

'  Friends, 
'  T  T AVE  you  feen  and  felt  the  judgments  of  God  upon 
'  JLX  your  city,  the  Lord  fending  lightning  from  heaven, 
'  that  deftroyed  and  burnt  it?     As  I  paifed  through  your 

*  city  on  a  firft-day  of  the  week,  which  you  call  your  fab- 

*  bath,    I   faw   fome   drinking,  foldiers   playing  at   fliuffle- 

*  board,   and  others  with  their  ftiops   open,   and   trading, 


446  EPISTLES     RELATING    TO  1:1677 

'  when  they  fhould  have  been  waiting  upon  God,  and  wor- 

*  Ihipping  him  ;  and  your  people  were  light  and  vain,  with- 

*  out   any   fenfe   of   God's  judgments,    or   repentance.      O 

*  therefore  repent,  left  the  all-feeing  God,  who  fees  all  your 
'  aftions,  and  is  over  all,  bring  fwift  judgment  upon  you  in 

*  his  wrath,  fury,  and  indignation.  Repent,  and  lay  afide 
'  all  manner  of  evil,  wickednefs,  ungodlmefs,  and  unright- 

*  coufnefs  :   for  the  day  of  the  Lord  will  come  upon  all  that 

*  do  evil,  all  the  workers  of  iniquity.  This  mighty  day 
'  of  the  Lord  will  find  them  all  out,  and  will  burn  as  an 
'  oven ;  burn  up  all  the  proud  and  wicked,  and  neither 
'  leave  them  root  nor  branch.     Therefore  all  ye  magiftrates, 

*  priefts,  and  people,  fearch  in  yourfelves  to  find  out  the 

*  caufe,  and  what  evil  you  have  committed,  that  has  brought 

*  the  wrath,  vengeance,  and  judgments  of  God  upon  you 
'  and  your  city,  in  burning  of  it.     All  return,  and  come  to 

*  the  light  of  Chrift  in  your  hearts,  to  God's  fpirit,  to  the 
'  grace  and  truth  in  your  hearts,  that  comes  by  Jefus  Chrift ; 
'  that  with  it  ye  may  fearch  your  hearts.  Do  not  grieve, 
'  nor  vex,  nor  quench  God's  good  Spirit  in  your  hearts; 
'  v>ralk  not  defpitefully  again  ft  the  Spirit  of  grace,  nor  turn 

*  from  it  into  wantonnefs  ;  and  yet  make  a  profeffion  of  God 
'  and  Chrift  in  words,  when  your  hearts  are  afar  off^,  living 
'  in  pleafures,  and  wantonly  upon  the  earth,  fporting  your- 
'  felves,  killing  the  juft,  crucifying  to  yourfelves  Chrift 
'  afrefh,  and  putting  him  to  open  fhame  ;  fo  difhonouring 
'  God,   Chrifl,  and  chriftianity,    yet    making    a  profeffion 

*  and  a  trade  of  the  fcriptures  ;  keeping  people  always  learn- 

*  ing,  that  they  may  be  always  paying. 

'  Ceafe  from  man,  whofe  breath  is   in  his   noftrils,   and 
'  look  unto  the  Lord,  all  ye  ends  of  the  earth,  and  be  fav- 

*  ed ;  for  the  Lord  God  of,  heaven  and  earth  is  come  ta 
'  teach  his  people  hi'mfelf  by  his  light,  Spirit,  grace,  and 
'  truth,  and  to  bring  them  olF  all  the  world's  teachers. 
'  God  hath  raifed  up  Chrift  Jefus  his  prophet,   whom  peo- 

*  pie  fliould  hear ;  and  faith,  "  This  is  my  beloved  Son, 
^'-  hear  ye  him  :"  and  Chrifl  faith,  "  Learn  of  me,  I  am  the 
''  wixy,  the  truth,  and  the  life;  and  no  man  comes  to  the 
"  Father,  but  by  me."  There  is  no  falvation  by  any  other 
'  name  under  the  whole  heaven,  but  by  the  name  of  Jefus^ 
'  who  faith,  "  I  am  the  good  Shepherd,  and  have  laid  down 
'■  my  life  for  my  ftieep,  and  my  fheep  hear  my  voice  and 
'•  follow  me,  and  will  not  follow  the  hireling:"  for  Chrift 

*  feeds  them  in  the  paftures  of  life,  that  will  never  wither. 


1677]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL 


447 


*  God  hath  anointed    Chrift  Jefus  to  preach,  if  you  will 

*  hear  him;   and  God  hath  given  Chrift  for  a  couniellor  and 

*  a  leader,  if  you  will  be  led  and  counfelled  by  him  ;  and 
'  God  hath  given  Chrift  for  a  biftiop  to  overfee  you,  and  a 
'  king  to  rule  you,  if  you   will  be   overfeen  and   ruled  by 

*  him.      You  that  will  not  have   Chrift  to  rule  over  you, 

*  who  never  fmned,  nor  was  guile  found  in  his  mouth,  you 

*  may  read  his  fentence  in  the  New  Teftamcnt  upon  fuch. 
'  Is  not  Chrift  a  fufficient  teacher,  whofe  blood  was  ft]ed 

*  for  you,  and  tailed  death  for  every  man  ?  Doth  not  Chrift 
'  fay  to  his  minifters,  "  Freely  ye  have  received,  freely  give?" 

*  And  the  apoille  iaith,  "  We  covet  no  man's  gold,  filver, 
*'  or  apparel."     They  laboured  with  their  hands,  and  kept 

*  the  gofpel  without  charge.     Have  they  that  are  called  mi- 

*  nifters  amongft  you  done  the  fame,  and  kept  this  command 

*  of  Chrift  Jefus  ?     Let  them  be  examined,   and  examine 

*  themfelves.      Have  you  not  trimmed  your  outfides  ?  but 

*  look  within  with  the  light  and  Spirit  of  Chrift  jefus,  and 

*  fee  if  your  infides  be  not  black  and  foul.      For  Chrift  le- 

*  fus,  who  doth  enlighten  every  man  that  cometh  into  the 

*  world  with  the  life  in  himfelf,  faith,  "  Believe  in  the  light, 
*«  that  ye  may  become  children  of  the  light."  With  the 
•'  light  ye  may  fee  all  the  evil  and  ungodly  deeds  that  ye 

*  have  committed,  all  your  ungodly  words  yon  have  fpo- 

*  ken,  and  all  your  ungodly  thoughts  ye  thmk ;  that  ye 
'  may  turn  from  them  to  Chrift,  from  whence  the  light 
'  comes  :   who  is  your   Saviour  and   Redeemer,  who  hath 

*  given  you  a  light  to  fee  your  fin,  and  that  you  are  dead 

*  in  Adam  ;  that  with  the  fame  light  you  may  fee  Chrift, 
'  the  quickening  Spirit,  who  makes  you  alive  to  God,  and 
'  faves  you  from  your  fm.     But  if  you  hate  the  light,  whiv-^h 

*  is  the  life  in  Chrift,  the  Prince  of  life;  and  love  the  dark- 
'  neis  and  the  prince  of  darknefs  more  than  the  ligiit  or  the 
'  life  in  Chrift,  bccaufe  it  will  reprove  you ;  Chrift  tells 
'  you,   "  This  light  will  be  your  condemnation,"   john.  iii. 

*  Therefore  be  warned  now  in  your  day.      While  you- have 

*  time,  turn  to  the  Lord.  Do  not  quench  the  Spirit  ol  the 
'  Father,  by  which  he  draws  to  his  Son;  nor  hate  the  light 

*  of  Chrift  ;  for  if  you  do.  you  hate  the  life  in  Chrift,  and 

*  fo  remain  under  condemnation  from  God  and  Chrift  with 

*  the  light,  who  now  fpeaks  to  his  people  by  his  Son,,  as  he 

*  did  in  the  apoftie's  days ;  the  fame  God,  that  was  the 
'  fpeaker  by  the  prophets  to  the  fathers,  and  Ipcaker  to  Adam 

*  and  Eve  in  paradile  :  and  happy  had  Adam  and  live,  and 


44?  EPISTLES    RELATING    TO  [16^7 

*  the  Jews,  and  all  Chriftians  been,  if  they  had  kept  to  this 
'  fpe'aker,  and  not  have  followed  the  ferpent,  that  falfe  fpeak- 
'  er,  and  his  inflruments.  And  now  God  is  the  true  fpeak- 
'  er  by  his  Son,  who  bruifes  the  head  of  the  ferpent,  the 
'  falfe  teacher,  the  head  of  all  falfe  ways,  falfe  prophets,  falfe 
'  churches,  and  falfe  religions  and  worfhips.     So  God  in 

*  Chrift  is  bringing  people  to  the  pure  undefiled  religion, 

*  that  will  keep  them  from  the  fpots  of  the  world,  into  the 

*  new  and  living  way  Chrift  Jefus ;  and  to  the  Church  in 
'  God,  which  Chrift  is  the  head  of,  as  he  was  in  the  apof- 
'  ties  days ;  and  to  worfhip  God  in  the  Spirit  and  truth, 
'  which  worfhip  Chrift  fet  up  above  fixteen  hundred  years 
'  fince.  Therefore  muft  all  people  come  to  the  grace  and 
'  Spirit  of  truth  in  their  own  hearts,  to  know  the  God  of 
'  truth,  who  is  a  Spirit,  and  in  the  Spirit  and  truth  to  wor- 
'  fhip,  ferve,  honour,  and  glorify  the  living  God,  who  is 
'  over  all,  and  worthy  of  all,  bleffed  for  evermore,  Amen! 

'  Ye  magiftrates  and  officers,  read  this  in  all  your  aflem- 
'  blies,  and  caufe  all  your  priefts  to  read  it  in  their  churches; 
'  that  they  and  you,  and  all  people  may  hear  and  fear  the 

*  God  of  heaven,  as  you  will  anfwer  it  at  the  great  and  ter* 

*  rible  day  of  judgment,  and  vengeance  of  the  Lord  God 

*  Almighty.  This  is  in  love  to  your  fouls,  and  for  your 
'  temporal  and  eternal  good. 

'  G.  f: 

'  Amfterdam,  the  igth  of  the 
*  7th  month,  1677.' 

*  An  epiftle  concerning  true  fafting,  true  prayer,  true  ho- 

'  nour,  and  againft  perfecution,  and  for  the  true  liberty 
'  in  Chrift  Jefus ;  that  all  may  have  a  care  that  the  apof- 
'  tie  hath  not  beftowed  his  labour  in  vain  upon  you  in 
'  your  obferving  of  days,  months,  times,  feafts,  and  years, 
'  and  of  coming  under  the  beggarly  elements,  and  the 
'  yoke  of  bondage  again,  and  of  bringing  and  forcing 
'  people  into  them. 

WHERE  did  ever  Chrift  or  his  apoftles  command 
any  believers  or  Chriftians  to  obferve  holy-days  or 
'  feaft-days.i  Let  us  fee  where  it  is  written  in  the  New 
'  Ttftament,  in  the  four  evangelifts,  the  epifties,  or  the 
'  Revelation,  that  ever  Chrift  or  his  apoftles  commanded 
'  Chriftians  to  obferve  the  time  called  Chriftmas,  or  a  day 
'  for  Chrift's  birth  ?  or  to  obferve  the  time  called  Eafter, 


S5773  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  449 

*  or  Whitfuntide,  or  Peter's,  Paul's,  Mark's,  or  Luke's,  or 

*  any  other  fainr/s  day  ? 

'  You,  that  prcft'ls  yourfelves  to  be  reformed  churches 
'  from  the  Papiils,  Jews,  and  Heathens,  and  the  fcriptures 

*  to  be  your  rule,  and  are  profefTors  of  the  new  covenant, 
'  where  do  you  prove  out  of  the  New  Teftament,   that  the 

*  apoftJes  and  the  primitive  church  praftifed  or  forced  any 
'  fuch  thing,  or  that  Chrift  and  his  apoftles  gave  any  fuch 
'  command  to  the  churches,  that  they  fhould  praclife  and 
'  obferve  any  fuch  days  ?      Let  us  fee  where  this  command 

*  is  written.  Did  not  the  apollle  fay  to  the  Galatians  in  the 
'  fourth  chapter,  "  But  now,  after  that  ye  have  known  God, 
"  or  rather  ye  are  known  of  God,  how  turn  ye  again  to  the 
"  weak  and  beggarly  elements,  whereunto  ye  defire  again 
"  to  be  in  bondage  ?  Ye  obferve  days,  and  months,  and 
"  times,  and  years  ;  I  am  afraid  of  you,  left  I  have  beftow- 
"  ed  upon  you  labour  in  vain."  And  in  the  third  of  Gala- 
'  -tians  it  is  faid,  "  O  foolifti  Galatians,  who  hath  bewitched 
"  you,  that  you  fhould  not  obey  the  truth,"  &c.  And  in 
'  Galatians  the  fifth,  the  apoftle  exhorts  them  to  "  ftand 
"  faft  in  the  liberty  wherewith  Chrift  hath  made  them  free:'* 
'  and  moreover  faid,  "  Be  not  entangled  again  with  the 
"  yoke  of  bondage." 

'  Doth  not  this  manifeft  there  were  fome  teachers  that 
'  were  drawing  the  church  of  the  Galatians  into  thefe  beg- 
'  garly  elements,  and  bringing  them  again  into  bondage,  in 
'  obferving  of  days,  months,  times,  and  years  ?      It  was  the 

*  apoftle's  work  to  bring  them  out  of  thofe  bondages  and 
'  beggarly  elements ;  therefore  when  they  Vvcre  going  back 
'  again  into  obferving  days,  months,  times,  and  years,  he 
'  was  afraid  that  he  had  "  beftowed  his  labour  upon  them 
"  in  vain  :"  and  he  exhorts  them  to  "  ftand  faft  in  the  liber- 
"  ty  wherewith  Chrift  Jefus  hath  made  them  free,  and  not 
"  to  be  entangled  again  with   the  yoke  of  bondage  :"  and 

*  again  hgnifies,  "  that  they  had  been  once  entangled  with 
'•  that  yoke  of  bondage  and  beggarly  elements."     But   01 

*  how  are  people,  called  Chriftians,  fmce  the  apoftles  days, 
'  gone  again  under  this  yoke  of  bondage,  and  thele  beggarly 
'  elements,  in  obferving  days,  months,  times,  and  years, 
'  let  their  praftice  declare.  Nay,  do  not  both  Papifts  and 
'  Proteftants   force   people   to   obierve   days,    months,    and 

*  times  ?  And  therefore  is  not  the  apoftle's  labour  and  tra- 
'  vail   befiovv-ed  upon  Chriftendom  in  vain,  which  was  to 

*  bring  people  from  under  fuch  beggarly  e^ciienls  and  that 

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450  EPISTLES    RELATING    TO  [1677 

*  yoke  of  bondage  (which  the  law  did  require)  to  "  {land 
*'  fafl  in  the  hberty  wherewith  Chrift  hath  made  them  free, 
"  and  not  to  be  entangled  again  with  the  yoke  of  bondage  ?" 
'  It  was  and  is  Chrift  that  hath  made  and  doth  make  his 
'  people  free  from  thefe  beggarly  elements;  therefore  the  re- 

*  deemed  are  to  "  ftand  faft  in  that  liberty  wherewith  Chrift 
"  hath  made  them  free/*  This  liberty  all  true  Chriftians  are 
'  to  ftand  faft  in ;  they  are  made  free  by  Chrift,  and  not  by 
'  man;   for  man,   without  the   Spirit  and  mind  of  Chrift, 

*  feeks  to  force  and  compel  Chrift's  followers,  fuch  as  he 
'  hath  made  free  from  the  yoke  of  bondage,  to  outward 
'  things  that  the  law  commanded,  to  the  obferving  of  days, 
'  months,  times,  feafts,  and  years.  From  fuch  weak,  beg- 
'  garly  elements,    thofe  that  know   God,   or  are  known  of 

*  God  and  Chrift,  are  to  ftand  faft  in  their  liberty,  and  not 
'  come  under  nor  be  entangled  with  the  yoke  of  bondage 
'  again,  feeing  he  hath  made  them  free.  For  they  that  are 
'  in  fuch  things,  and  would  force  others  to  them,  are  gone 

*  from  that  which  gives  the  knowledge  of  God,  and  have 

*  not  ftood  faft  in  the  liberty  wherewith  Chrift  makes  free. 

'  Concerning  prayer,  we  do  not  read  that  ever  Chrift  or 
'  his  apofties  did  feek  by  force  to  compel  any  to  faft  or  pray 

*  with  them.      But  Chrift  taught   them  how   they  fliould 

*  pray,  and  be  diftin6l  from  the  hypocrites.  His  words  are 
'  as  folio  weth  :  "  When  thou  pray  eft,  thou  ftialt  not  be  as 
"  the  hypocrites  are ;  for  they  love  to  ftand  praying  in  the 
•'  fynagogues,  and  in  the  corners  of  the  ftreets,  that  they 
*'  may  be  ieen  of  men,  &c.  But  when  thou  prayeft,  enter 
"  into  thy  clofet,  and  when  thou  haft  fliut  thy  door,  pray 
*'  to  thy  Father  which  is  in  fecret,  and  thy  Father,  that  feeth 
*'  in  fecret,  will  reward  thee  openly.  But  when  you  pray, 
^*  ufe  not  vain  repetitions,  as  the  heathen  do ;  for  they  think 
"  that  they  fliail  be  heard  for  their  much  (peaking.  Be  not 
*'  ye  therefore  like  them ;  for  your  Father  knoweth  what 
*'  things  ye  have  need  of  before  ye  afk  him,"  &c.     As  the 

*  apofties  and  faints  did,  fo  do  we ;  we  pray  in  fecret,  and 
'  we  pray  in  pubhck,  as  the  fpirit  gives  us  utterance,  which 
'  helps  our  infirmities,  as  it  did  the  apofties  and  true  Chrif- 

*  tians :   after  this  manner  we  pray  for  ourfclves,  and  for  all 

*  men  both  high  and  low. 

'  Concerning  falling,  Chrift  faith,  "  Moreover  when  ye 
*'  faft,  be  not  as  the  hypocrites,  of  a  fad  countenance;  for 
*•'  they  disfigure  their  faces,  that  they  may  appenr  unto  men 
••  to  faft.     But  when  thou  fiifteft,   anoint  lay   head,  and 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX'9    JOURNAL.  41^1 

*'  wafh  thy  face,  that  thou  appear  not  unto  men  to  fafl:, 
*'  but  unto  thy  Father  which  is  in  Tecret ;  and  thy  Father, 
*•  which  feeth  in  fecret,  fhall  reward  thee  openly." 

'  You  may  fee  in  Ifaiah  Iviii.  what  the  true  fail  the  Lord 

*  requires  is,  where  it  is  faid  to  the  prophet,  "  Cry  aloud, 
"  and  fpare  not,  lift  up  thy  voice  like  a  trumpet,  and  fliew 
*'  my  people  their  tranfgreflion,  and  the  houfe  of  Jacob 
"  their  fins  ;  yet  they  feek  me  daily,  and  delight  to  know 
"  my  ways,  as  a  nation  that  did  righteoufnefs,  and  forfook 
"  not  the  ordinance  of  their  God;  they  aflc  of  me  the  ordi- 
"  nances  of  juftice,  they  take  delight  in  approaching  to 
"  God.  Wherefore  have  we  faded,  fay  they,  and  thou 
*'  feeft  not  ?  Wherefore  have  we  aflFlifted  our  foul,  and  thou 
*'  takefl;  no  knowledge  ?  Behold,  in  the  day  of  your  f^ifl  ye 
**  find  pleafure,  and  exa6l  all  your  labours.  Behold,  ye 
*'  fafl  for  ftrife  and  debate,  and  to  fmite  with  the  fifl  of 
"  wickednefs ;  ye  fliali  not  fafl  as  ye  do  this  day,  to  make 
"  your  voice  to  be  heard  on  high.  Is  it  fuch  a  fall  that  I 
*'  have  chofen  ?  A  day  for  a  man  to  affli6l  his  foul  ?  Is  it 
"  to  bow  down  his  head  as  a  bulrufh,  and  to  fpread  fack- 
**  cloth  and  afhes  under  him  ?  Wilt  thou  call  this  a  fafl, 
"  and  an  acceptable  day  to  the  Lord  ?  Is  not  this  the  fall 
*'  that  I  have  chofen,  faith  the  Lord;  to  loofe  the  bands  of 
*'  wickednefs,  to  undo  the  heavy  burdens,  and  to  let  the 
*'  opprefiftd  go  free,  and  that  ye  break  every  yoke  ?"  So  this 

*  fafl  that  the  Lord  requires,  is  not  to  lay  yokes,  to  opprefs, 
'  and  lay  heavy  burdens,    and  to  make  faft  the   bands   of 

*  wickednefs;  but  to  loofe  and  break  fuch  things. 

'  Further,  Concerning  the  true  fafl;  the  Lord  requires, 
"  Is  it  not  to  deal  thy  bread  to  the  hungry,  and  that  thou 
**  bring  the  poor,  that  are  call  out,  to  thy  houfe  ?  When 
"  thou  feefl  the  naked,  that  thou  cover  him,  and  that  thou 
*'  hide  not  thyfelf  from  thy  own  flefh  ?  (Do  you  keep  this 
*'  true  fall  ?)  Then  fhall  thy  light  break  forth  as  the  morn- 
"  ing,  and  thine  health  fhall  fpring  forth  fpeedily  r  and  th}^ 
*'  righteoufnefs  fhall  go  before  thee,  the  glory  of  the  Lord 
"  fhall  be  thy  rereward.  Then  fhalt  thou  call,  and  the 
*'  Lord  fhall  anfwer;  thou  fhalt  cry,  and  he  fhall  fay,  Here 
"  I  am:  If  thou  take  away  from  the  midfl  of  thee  the  yokes, 
'*  the  putting  forth  of  the  finger,  and  (peaking  vanity  ;  and 
*'  if  thou  draw  out  thy  foul  to  the  hungry,  and  fatisfy  the 
<'  affli6led  foul;  then  fhall  thy  light  arile  out  of  obfcurity, 
*'  and  thy  darknefs  be  as  the  noon-day.  And  the  Lord 
*'-  fliall  guide  thee  continually,  and  fatisfy  thy  foul  in 
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452  EPISTLES     RELATING     TO  [1677 

"  drought,  and  make  fat  thy  bones  :  and  thou  fhalt  be  like 
*•'  a  watered  garden,  and  like  a  fpring  of  water,  whofe  wa- 
"  ters  fail  not,"  &c. 

*  Here  is  the  praftice  of  the  true  fall  the  Lord  requires 
'  of  his  people ;  and  to  them  that  obferve  this  faft,  the 
'  Lord  faith,  '*  When  they  call,  he  will  anfwer."    You  rnay 

*  fee  what  glorious  and  happy  comforts  they  receive  from 
'  the  Lord,  that  keep  this  true  faft ;  but  fuch  as  fall  for 
'  ftrife  and  debate,  and  to  fmite  with  the  fills  of  wipkcdnefs, 
*'  to  make  their  voices  to  be  heard  on  high,  to  afili6l  their 
*'  fouls  for  a  day,  to  bow  down  their  head  as  a  bulruili, 
'■  and  loofe  not  the  bands  of  wickednefs,  nor  undo  every 
*'  heavy  burden,  break  off  every  yoke,  and  let  the  opprefl'ed 
*'  go  free,  that  does  not  deal  his  bread  to  th£  hungry,  clothe 
*'  the  naked,  and  bring  the  poor  to  his  houfe,  but  hides 
*'  himfelf  from   his  own  fiefti  ;"  fuch   fafts  and  fafttrs  the 

*  Lord   doth   not    accept,    neither    hath    he    chofen    them. 

*  Thefe  appear  to  men  with  their  disfigured  faces,  hanging 
'  down  their  heads  as  a  bulrufh  for  a  day,   like  the  hypo- 

*  crites,  to  faft,  as  Chrift  fpeaks  in  Matth.  vi. 

'  Ls  it  not  the  command  of  Chrift,  that  in  their  faft  they 

*  Ihould  not  appear  unto  men  to  faft  ?      And  now  you,  that 

*  Vv^ould  force   us   to  ftiut  up  our  fiiops  on  faftmg-days,  or 

*  for  a  day,  does  not  this  faft  appear  to  men  ?    and  is  not 

*  this  the  faft,  that  the  Lord  faith  in  Ifaiah,  "  he  doth  not 
*•  accept  ?"  for  he  faith,  ''■  Is  this  the  faft  that  1  have  cho- 
*'  fen,  a  day  for  a  man  to  afflift  his  foul,  and  bow  down  his 
"  head  as  a  buirufh,"  &r..  "  V/ilt  thou  call  this  a  faft,  and 
*'  an  acceptable  day  to  the  Lord  ?"  I  fa.  Iviii. 

'Therefore  all  God's  people  are  to  keep  the  true   faft  of 

*  the  Lord  from  debate  and  ftrife,  and   the  fifts  of  wicked-' 

*  nefs ;  that  "  faft  that  breaks  the  bands  of  wickednefs,  un- 
*'  does  every  heavy  burden,  breaks  every  yoke,  lets  the  op- 
'•  prefTed  go  free,  deals  bread  to  the  hungry,  clothes  the 
*'  naked,  and  brings  the  poor  that  are  call  out  to  bis  own 
"  houfe."  Every  one  that  keeps  this  true  faft,  their  health 
'  fhall  grow,  and  when  they  call,  the  Lord  will  hear  them  ; 
'•  he  will  be  their  guide  confinually,  fatisfy  their  fouls  in 
"  drought,  rnake  their  bones  fat,  and  th^y  fhall  be  like  a  wa- 
"  tered  garden,  and  like  a  fpring  of  water,  whofe  waters 
"  fail  not."     Now  you,  that  keep  not  this  true  faft,  when 

*  you  call  upon  the  Lord  on  your  own  fafting-days,  does 
'  the  Lord  anfwer  you,  and  fay,  "  Here  I  am  ? "  Doth  the 
'  Lord  guide  you   continually  ?  Are  your  bones  made  fat 


1677]  GEORGE     FOX's     JOURNAL.  453 

*  by  him,  and  your  fouls   fatisfied  in    drought  ?  Are  you 

*  like  a  watered  garden,  and  like  a  fpring  whofe  waters  fail 

*  not  ?   You  that  keep  not  this  true  taft,  do  you   not  want 

*  thefe  waters  which  fail  not  ?  fo  your  fouls  are  not  fatisfied 
'  in  drought,  but  your  bones  are  lean,  and  you  hear  not 
'  the  voice  of  the  Lord,  who  faith,  "  Here  I  am  :"  fo  you 

*  lofe  the   heritage  of  Jacob,  and  ride  not  upon  the  high- 

*  places  there ;  but  come  under.     Therefore  every  man  and 

*  woman,  fhut  your  hearts  againft  all  manner  of  evil 
'  whatfoever,  and  trade  not  with  Babylon's  merchants  of 
'  confulion ;  but  keep   the  fupernatural  day  of  Chrift,  that 

*  is  fprung  from  on  high,  that  is  kept  by  believing  and  walk- 

*  ing   in  the   light  of  Chrift,  and  being  grafted  into  him. 

*  This  will  bring  you  to  the  true  faft,  from  feeding  upon 
'  any  evil,  and  to  the  true  praying  in  the  Spirit,  as  Chrift 

*  and  the  apoftles  have  taught.  The  fruit  of  the  Spirit  is 
'  love,  Szc.  The  birth  of  the  Spirit  is  not  a  perfecuting 
'  birth  J  but  he  that  is  born  of  the  fleft;  will  perfecute  him 
'  that  is  born  of  the  Spirit,  becaufe  he  will  not  follow  the 
'  birth  of  the  flefh,  with  its  weak,  beggarly  elements,  that 

*  entangles  with   its  yoke  of  bondage,  and  its   obferving  of 

*  days,  months,  times,  fafts,  feafts,  and   years  ;   which   the 

*  birth  of  the   Spirit    is  to    ftand  faft  againft  in  the  liberty 

*  wherewith  Chrift  hath  made  it  free. 

'  Do  you  not  know  that  the  Turks  keep  their  fabbath  on 

*  the   fixth-day,  the   Jews  upon   the  feventh-day.  and  the 

*  Chriftians    meet  together    on   the  firft-day  of  the  week  ? 

*  And  that  day,  which  the  Turks  keep,  the  Jews  and  Chrif- 

*  tians  fhops  are  open  ;  and  that  day  the  Jews  keep,  Chrif- 
'■  tians  and  Turks  ftiops  are  open;  and  the  firft-days,  that 

*  the  Chriftians  keep,  both  Jews  and  Turks  fhops  are  open  ? 

*  The  Turk  does  not  force  the  Jews  nor  the  Chriftians  to 

*  ftiut  up  their  ftiops  on  their  meeting-days,  but  lets  them 
'  have  their  liberty  in  Turkey.  And  where  do  you  read 
'  that  ever  the  Turks  forced  any  Chriftians  to  obferve  any 
'  of  their  holy  days,  fafts,  or  feafts  ?  If  not,  fhould  not 
'  Chriftians   be   beyond   the  Turks  in  giving  liberty  to  all 

*  tender  confciences   to  ferve  God,  feeing    Chrift    and  the 

*  apoftles  command  not  nor  force  people  to  obferve  holy 
'  days,  or  times,  or  months,  or  years,  but  fhould  pray  al- 
'  ways  in  the  Spirit,  and  faft  always  from  ftrife  and  debate, 
'  from  all  mannner  of  fm  and  evil ;  and  that  will  keep 
'  down  the  fift  of  wickednefs,  and  the  bond  of  iniquity  ? 
^  Why  Oiould  not  people  of  a  ten(^cr  confcience  have  theij 


45+  EPISTLES     RELATING    TO  [1677 

*  liberty   to  exercife   their  confciences   towards    God,    that 

*  they  may  have  a  "  good  confcience  always,  towards  God 
"  and  man,"  to  perform  that  which  God  requires,  and  "  to 
"  do  unto  all  men  as  they  would  have  them  to  do  unto 
*'  them,  and  to  love  their  neighbours  as  themfeives  ;"  feeing 
'  fo  many  debauched,  evil  and  feared   confciences,  as  with 

*  an  hot  iron,  have  liberty  m  their  loofe  lives  and  converfa- 

*  tions,  and  in  their  loofe  words,  whole  tongues  are  at  liberty 

*  to  fwear  and  curfe,  and  their  fpirits  at  liberty  in  drunken- 

*  nefs  and  uncleannefs  ?  Let  the  magiftrates  look  and  fee. 
'  how  this  evil  feared  confcience  hath  its  liberi)  to  be  exer- 
'  cifed  in  ail  manner  of  evil  things  all  Chriflendom  over : 
'  which  is  a  great  fhame  and  difhonour  to  God,   Chrift,  and 

*  Chriftianity,  yea,  and  humanity.  Therefore  why  fhould 
'  not  God's  people  have  liberty  to  exercife  their  good  and 
'  tender  confciences  towards  God  and  man  ?  The  myftery 
'of  faith,   which  Jefus  Chrift  is  the  author  and  finifher  of, 

*  is  held  in  a  pure  confcience  ;  and  fhould  not  the  work  of 
<  the  true  Chriflian  magiftrate  be  to  encourage  the  exercife 
'  of  this  pure  confcience  towards  God  and  man,  and  to  dif- 

*  courage  the  exercife  of  this  evil  feared  confcience  that  dif- 

*  honours  both  God  and  Chrifl,  and  true  Chriftianity  ?  If 
'  not,  how  are  they  a  praife  to   them  that  do  well,  and  a 

*  terror  to  evil  doers  ? 

*  Concerning  the  not  putting  off  our  hats  to  men.      Ma- 

*  ny  under  the  name  of  Chriflians,  have  taken  oflFence  at  us 

*  becaufe  we  could  not  put  oiF  our  hats,  and  bow  down  to 
'  them  ;  which  we  find  no  command  from    Chrift  or   his 

*  apoftlcs  for,  but  rather  to  the  contrary.  For  Chrift  faith, 
"  I  receive  not  honour  of  men"  (mark,  he  did  not  receive 
'  honour  of  men) :  and  further,  *'  How  can  ye  believe, 
"  which  receive  honour  one  of  another,  and  feek  not  the 
'•  honour  that  comes  from  God  only  ?"  Now  Chrift  de- 
'  clarcs  it  to  be  a  mark  of  unbelievers,  that  feek  "  honour 
"  one  of  another,"  and  feek  not  that  "  honour  that  comes 
"  from  God  only ;"  and  is  not  the  putting  off  the  hat,  and 
'  bowing  with  it,  an  honour  to  men,  which  they  feek  one  of 
'  another,  and  are  offended  if  they  have  it  not  ?  Do  not 
'  the  very  Turks  mock  at  the  Chriftians  in  their  proverb, 
'  faying,  "  The  Chriftians  fpend  much  of  their  time  in  put- 
'•'  tin'f  oft^  their  hat's,  and  fbewing  their  bare  head  to  one  an- 
"  other?"  Should  not  thofe  be  beyond  Turks,  that  bear  the 
'  noble  name  of  Chriftian,  above  feeking  honour  one  of  an- 
'  gther,  and  pcrfccuting  them  that  will  not  give  it,  when,  all 


16773  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  455 

'  true  believing  Chriflians  fhould  feekthe  honour  that  comes 

*  from  God  only  ?  which  is  the  duty  of  all  true  believers  in 

*  Chrift  Jefus,  for  he  would  not  receive  honour  of  men. 
'  And  '-he  that  believeth  on  the  Son  of  God,  hath  ever- 
"  lading  life:  and  he  that  believeth  not  the  Son,  fhali  not 
"  fee  life,  but  the  wrath  of  God  abideth  upon  him,"  John 
'  iii.  36.  Is  not  the  Turks  proverb  a  reproach  to  the  Chril- 
'  tians,  who  fay,  "  That  the  Chriflians  fpend  much  of  their 
"  time  in  putting  ofF  their  hats,  and  fhewing  their  bare  head 
"  one  to  another  ?"  Have  you  not  fined  and  imprifoned  ma- 
'  ny,  becaufe  they  would  not  put  off  their  hats  to  you, 
'  and  Ihew  you  their  bare  heads  ?   In  many  of  your  courts 

*  they  fhall  not  have  right  andjuftice,  nor  liberty  and  free- 

*  dom  in  cities   or  flates,   though   they   have  truly   ferved 

*  their  time,  and  are  honed  and  civil  men,  unlefs  they  will  put 

*  off  their  hats,  and  Ihew  you  their  bare  head  ?   Have  you 

*  not  made  a  law  againft  fuch,  that  they  muft  forfeit  two 
'  guilders  if  they  do  it  not  ?  Do  not  you  feek  to  compel  and 
'  force  them  to  do  it,  and  fine  fuch  as  do  not,  as  at  Lanf- 
'  meer  in  Waterland  ?  Is  not  this  the  honour  that  you 
'  feek  one  of  another  ?  Did  not  the  Pharifecs  and  Jews  do 

*  the  fame  ? 

'  As  for  your  faying,  "  The  apollle  commands  to  honour 
"  all  men ;  and  fuch  as  rule  well  are  worthy  of  double  ho- 
"  noun"  If  this  "  honouring  all  men"  were  to  put  oft^  their 

*  hats  to  all  men,  and  fhew  all  men  their  bare  heads,  then 
'  this  command  you  break  yourlelves,  for  you  do  not  this 
'  to  all  men  generally;  and  if  they  that  rule  wtli,  muft 
'  have  double  hat-honour,  then  they  muft  put  off  their  hats 
^  twice,  and  fhew  them  their  bare  heads.     If  this  hat-honour, 

*  and  fhewing  the  bare  head,  be  an  invention  of  men,  an»d 
"*  not  from  God,  and  ye  cannot  prove  it  by  fcripture,  yet 
'  fay,  "  It  is  your  rule,  ;"  then  you  a6t  belide  the  rule,  and 

compel  people  to  aft  contrary   to  your  rule.      For  where 
did  ever  the   prophets,   Chrift,  or  the  apoftles  command 


'  any  fuch  thing  ?  Let  us  fee  a  command,  a  practice,  anc 
'  an  example  for  it.  Nebuchadnezzar,  who  was  a  perfecu- 
'  tor,  and  caft  the  three  children  of  Krael  into  the  fire  with 
'  their  hofe,  cloaks,  and  hats,  we  do  not  read  that  he  was 
'  offended  at  them  becaufe  they  did  not  put  off  their  hats, 
'  and  fhew  him  their  bare  heads ;  but  becaufe  they  would 
'  not  bow  to  his  nnage.  And  is  it  not  find  in  the  margin 
'  of  the  bible,  where  it  is  laid,  "  Honour  all  men,"  "  Have 
"''  all  men  in  efteem  ?"     Then  they  that  rule  well,  arc  wor- 


4j6  EPISTLES    RELATING    TO  [1677 

*  thy  of  double  efteem ;  and  this  efteem  muft  be  truly  in 

*  the  heart,  without  any  envy,  malice,  or  hatred.  As  all 
'  men  are  the  workmanlhip  of  God,  they  are  to  be  efteem- 
'  ed  in  the  heart  with  the  Spirit  of  God ;  and  they  that  rule 
'  well,  are  worthy  of  double  efleem  :  here  is  true  ho- 
'  nour  from  the  heart,  both  to  God  and  man,  his  workman- 
'  fliip.  For  people  may  put  off  their  hats  and  ftiew  their 
'  bare  heads  one  to  another  once,  or  twice  to  the  officers 

*  and  magiftrates,  and  yet  be  full  of  envy,  mahce,  hatred, 
'  and  murder  in  their  hearts  one  againft  another;  and  give 
'  them  that  honour,  as  you  call  it,  and  yet  fpeak  or  wilh 

*  evil  towards  them,  when  they  have  turned  their  backs  off 

*  them.  The  true  honour  or  efteem  in  the  heart  to  all  men, 
'  as  they  are  God's  creation,  is  without  any  evil  wifh  or 
'  thought  in  the  heart  to  any,  and  they  that  rule  well  have 
'  the  double  efteem,  whom  God  hath  placed  over  people. 
'  There  is  no  evil  in  the  heart  that  gives  this  refpeft,  efteem, 
'  or  honour,  and  brings  them  to  love  their  neighbours  as 

*  themfelves,  and  to  "  do  unto  all  men  as  they  would  have 
*'  them  do  unto  them,"  in  that  they  efteem  all  men,  and 

*  have  a  double  efteem  for  them  that  rule  well.  This  is 
'  beyond  all  the  honour  of  putting  off  the  hats  once  to  all 

*  men,  and  twice  to  them  that  are  worthy  of  the  double- 
'  honour,  as  you  may  call  it.     But  we  would  afk   Chrif- 

*  tians,  that  pra6life  this  hat-honour,  and  ftrewing  one  ano- 
'  ther  their  bare   heads,  Who  invented  this  honour,  feeing 

*  they  cannot  prove  that  ever  Chrift  or  the  apoftles  did  com- 
'  mand  or  pra6life  any  fuch  thing,  or  Mofes  in  the  time  of 
'  the  law  ?  Do  not  fay  or  think  that  we  had  this  praftice  of 
'  not  putting  off  our  hats  from  the  Turk  ;  for  we  were  mov- 
'  ed  by  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord,  before  ever  we  heard  of  the 
'  Turks  proverb  and  pra6lice,  to  leave  the  honour   that  is 

*  below,  and  feek  the  honour  that  comes  from  above,  when 
'  we  came  to  be  true  believers  in  Chrift  Jefus. 

'  Concerning  perfecuting,  imprifoning.  and  banifhing 
'  God's  people,  in  whom  Chrift  is  manifeft,  and  dwells  in 
'  their  hearts,  doth  not  Chrift  tell  you,  that  in  fo  doing  you 
'  imprifon  him  ?  Then  do  you  not  banifh.  him,  and  perie- 
'  cute  him  out  of  your  cities  and  corporations  ?  And  how 
'  can  you  enter  into  and  have  a  ftiare  in  his  kingdom,  though 
'  you  may  profefs  him  in  words  ?  Are  not  fuch  to  go  into 
'  everlafting  punifiiinent,  that  do  not  vifit  Chrift  in  prifon  ? 

*  Then  what  will  become  of  you,  that  banifli  and  imprifon 

*  him.  where  he  is  manifeft  in  his  members,  nor  fuffer  thcra 


i6J^^}  GEORGE     FOX'S    JOURNAL.  457 

*  to  meet  together  to  enjoy  him  amongft  them,  according  to 

*  his  promife  ?  Therefore  you,  that  will  not  let  Chrift  reign 

*  in  his  people,  and  have  his  liberty  in  them  in  your  cities 

*  and  countries,  to  exercife   his  offices,  you  will    not  hax-e 

*  your  liberty  in  heaven.     You  that  will  not  let  ChriR  reign 

*  in  your  hearts,  nor  fufFcr  him  to  reign  in  his  people  here 

*  upon   the   earth,  in   this  world,    in  your  kingdoms,  you 

*  will  not  reign  with  Chnft  in  heaven,  in  his  kingdom,  nor 

*  in  the  world  without  end. 

'  You,  that   banifh  the  truth  out  of  your  cities  or  coun- 

*  tries,  or  his  people  for  its  fake,  you  banifh  tiie  truth  and 

*  Chrift  out  of  your  hearts  from  ruling  there;  fo  you  your- 

*  felves   are   not   the   temples   of  God.     When   you   have 

*  banifhed  Chrift  and  his  truth  out  of  your  ovvn  hearts,  you 

*  banifli  fuch,  in  whom  he  rules,  out  of  your  eftaies  and 
*■  country ;  then  fee  what  judgments  the  Lord  doth  bring 

*  upon  you,  when  you    are   left  to  yourlelves ;  yea,  fears 

*  and  troubles,  one  judgment  after  another,  ^omes    upon 

*  you,  till  you  are  even  filled  with  them.     But  the  banifti- 

*  ed,  the  fufFerers  for  truth  and  Chrift's  fake,  have  a  peacea- 

*  ble  habitation  in  the  truth,  which  the  devil  is  out  of,  and 

*  cannot  get  into  ;    which  habitation   will   outlaft   all    the 

*  habitations  of  the  wicked  and  perfecutors,  though  they  be 

*  never  fo  full  of  words  without  life  and  truth.     The  life 

*  and  the  truth  will  outlaft  all  airy  notions ;  and  Chrift  the 

*  Lamb  and  his  patient  Seed,  will  overcome   the  devourer 

*  with  his  impatient  feed  :   and  they  that  have  the  garment, 

*  the  righteoufnefs  of  Chrift,  which  is  the  fine  linen,  will 

*  find   it  to  outlaft   all   the   rags   and  inventions   of  men. 

*  Chrift  faith  to  his  learners,  "  Be  of  good  cheer,   I  have 
*'  overcome  the  world,  the  perfecuting  world."     He  alfo 

*  faid  to  his  difciples,   "  Marvel  not  if  that  the  world  hate 
*'  you,  for  it  hated  me  before  you."     Therefore  let  all  that 

*  profefs  themfelves   Chriftians,  lay  afide  perfecution  about 

*  religion,  churches  or  worfliip,  fafling  or  praying  days ;  for 

*  you  have  no  command  from   Chrift  and  his  apofties  to> 

*  perfecute  any.      Chrift,  who   is   the    King   of  kings,  and. 
'  Lord  of  lords,  when  they  called  him  a  deceiver,,  blafphe-.. 

*  med  him,  and  faid,   "  He  had  a  devil,"  did  not  perfectite 

*  any  of  them  for  it,  nor  force  or  compel  any  to  hear  and 

*  believe  him,  nor  the  apofties  after  him;  but  he  bad  them, 

*  that  would  have   been  plucking  up   the   tares,   '•'  l-<:t  the 
*'  tares  and  the  wheat  §row  together  until  the  harveft."     !^a 


Vol,  H,  ^  M 


'p  /^SS  EPISTLES     RELATING    TO  [1677 

'  you  have  no  command  from  Chrifl:  or  his  apoflles  to  prr- 
'  fecute,  iiiiprifon,  banifli,  or  fpoil  the  goods  of  any  for 
'  matter  of  pure  confcience  and  religion,  worfhip,  faith,  and 
'  church  in  the  gofpel-times. 

'  G.  f: 

'  Harh'ngen  in  Friefland,   the  11th 
'  of  the  6th  mOHth,  1677/ 


'  A  warning  fo  the  magiftrates,  prieRs,  and  people  of  the 

*  city   of  Hamburgh,  to  humble   themfeives   before  the 

*  Lord,  and  not  to  be  high-minded. 

'  Friends, 

*  "^/OLI  have  painted  and  garnifhed  the  infide  of  your 
'  X  outward  houfes  and  hi^h-places  ;  but  look  withni 
'  your  hearts  with  the  light  of  Chrifl,  which  he  hath  enli^ht-- 

*  ened  you  and  every  man  thi.t  ccmeth  into  the  world  with- 
'  al,  and  wirii  it  you  may  fee  how  foul  your  hearts  and  in- 
'  fides  are  with  iin  and  evil,  which  Chrift  tells  you  ye 
'  fhould  make  clean;  who  toid  the  Phanfees  how  they 
"  painted  the  fepulchres  of  the  righteous./'  and  the)'  them- 

*  felves  were  full  of  rortennefs  and  corruption.     Thertfore 

*  look  into  yourfelves  and  your  own  hearts,  what  you  are 
'  full  of.  To  paint  the  fepulchres  of  thr  righteous  apoflles, 
'  and  make  a  trade  and  a  profefTion  ot  their  words,  without 
'  the  fame  Holy  Ghofl,  power,  light,  and  truth  which  they' 
'  were  in,  will  not  ftaud  the  day  of  God's  vengeance.' 
'  Therefore  repent  while  you  have  time,  turn  to  the  Lord 
'  with  your  whole  hearts,  and  do  not  think  yourfelves  fe- 
'  cure  without  a  fenfe  ot  his  immediate  almighty  prote6lion. 

*  For  it  is  not  all  your  works,  nor  all  your  own  ftrength, 
'  po^ver,   and   defence  that  can   protccl:  you.      It  is  not  for 

*  you  to  look  at  them,  and  think  yourfelves  fecure,  and  to 
'  lit  down  in  your  fecarity,  and  let  your  hearts  be  merry, 
'  and  at  rcfl  and  eafe,      Wlicn  the  Lord  brings  a  fcourge 

*  upon  you,  that  you  are  filled  with  terrors  and  fears,  re- 
'  member  you  wevc  warned,  that  you  were  fet  down,  but 
'  not  in  (he  true  refl.  Then  all  your  oun  flrcngih  and 
'  force  will  fland  you  in  no  Head;  you  will  acknowledge 
'  that  it   mufl   be   God  that  muft  proted  you.      Therefore 

*  take   warning ;  for  your  priefts  and  people  are  too   high, 

*  are  fwaliowed  ud  too  much  in  this  world.     The  vanities 


T677]  GEORGE    FOX'S    JOURNAL.  459   ^ 

*  of  it  cany  youY  minds  away  from  God ;  your  care  is  tiiore 

*  for  the  world  than  for   God,  and  more:  after  the  riches  of 

*  this  world  than  after  the  riches  of  the  vv'orld  that  has  no 

*  end.      Know  you  not  that  all  your  heaps  of  outward  trea- 

*  fure  maft  have  an  end,  and  that  you  mud  leave  them  all 

*  behind  you?    Therefore  I   am  to  warn  and   advife  you, 

*  both  high  and  low,  prielts  and  people,  to  come  to  the 
'  grace,  light,  and  truth  that  comes  by  Jefus  Chrift ;  to 
'  the  manifeftation  of  the  good  Spirit  of  God,  which  is  giv- 
'  en  you  to  profit  withal ;  that  with  this  grace,  truth,  light, 

*  and  Spirit  of  Chrift,  you  may  turn  to  him  from  whence  it 

*  comes,  who  Taith,  "•  Learn  of  me  ;"  and  God  -faith, 
*'  This   is   my   beloved   Son,  hear  ye   him."     So    all   the 

*  children   of  the  new  covenant,  that  walk  in  the  new  and 

*  living  way,  do  hear  Chrift  their  prophet,  that  God  has 
'  raifed  up,  and   anointed  to   be   their  teacher  and  prieft. 

*  So  now,  God  doth  fpeak  to  his  people  by  his  Son,  as  he 
'  did  in  the  apoftles  days.     The    Lord  is  come  to  teach  his 

*  people  himfelf  by  his  grace,  light,  truth,  and  Spirit,  and 

*  to  bring  them  off  from  all  the  world's  teachers,  made  by 

*  men  fmce  the  apoftles  days ;  who  have  kept  people  always 

*  learning,  that  they  may  always  be  paying  of  them.      And 

*  he  is  come  to  bring  them  off  all  the  world's  religions,  to 

*  the  religion  that  he  fet  up  in  the  apoftles  days  in  the  new 
'  covenant,   which   is  pure   and   undefiled   before  God    in 

*  his  fight,  and  keeps  from  the  fpots  of  the  world,  &c. 
'  And  the  Lord  is  come  to  bring  them  off  all  the  v/orld's 
'  churches,  to  the  church  in  God,  which  Chrift  the  heaven- 
'  ly  man  is  head  of;  and  to  bring  them  off  all  the  world's 
'  worfhips,  to  worftiip  God  in  Spirit  and  in  truth,  which 

*  Chrift  fet  up  above  fixteen  hundred  years  {incQ.  So  all 
'  men  and  women  mull  come  to  the  Spirit  and  truth  in 
'  their  hearts,  by  which  they  mull  know  the  God  of  truth, 
'  who  is  a  Spirit;  and  then  in  the  Spirit  and  truth  they  will 
'  worftiip  him,  and  know  vvhat  and  who  they  worfaip.     Al- 

*  fo  the  Lord  is  come  to  bring  his  people  off  all  the  world's 
'  temples,  that  with  the  Spirit  they  may  know  their  bodies 
'  to  be  the  temples  of  the  Holy  Ghoft.  And  the  Lord  is 
'  come  to  bring  his  people  off  all  the  world's  croffes,  pic- 
'  tures,  images,  and  likeneffes;  to  know  that  the  power  of 
'  God  is  the  crofs  of  Chrift,  which  crucifies  them   to  the 

*  world,  and  brings  them  up  into  the  likencfs  and  image  of 

*  Cod  man  and  woman  were  in  before  they  fell ;  and  fo  to 

3  ^^  2 


46d  EflSTLES    RELATING    TO  [1677 

«  Chrift  that  never  fell.  This  work  mull  all  know  in  their 
'  hearts  by  the  light  of  Chrift  Jefus,  who  "  is  the  true  light 
"  that  lighteth  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world."  It 
'  is  called  the  light  in  man  and  woman,   and  the  life  in 

*  Chrift  the  Word  ;  who  faith,  •'  Believe  in  the  light,  that 
"  ye  may  become  children  of  the  light."     And  the  light  lets 

*  you  fee  all  your  evil  a6lions  that  you  have  committed^ 
'  )'our  ungodly  ways  you  have  walked  in,  and  your  ungod- 
'  ly  words  and  thoughts.      If  you  hate  this  light,  and  love 

*  the  darknefs,   and  the  prince  of  it,   more  than  this  light, 

*  which  is  the  life  in  Chrift,  the  Prince  of  life,  and  will  not 

*  come  to  it,  becaufe  your  deeds  be  evil,  and  it  will  reprove 
'  you,  Chrift  tells  you,  "  This  light  is  your  condemnation." 
'  Then  what  is  all  your  profcffion  good  fc-r,  when  )/ou  re- 
'  main  under  the  condemnation  of  the  true  li^ht.  in  which 

*  you  fhouid  believe,  and  fo  become  children  of  light,  and 
'  out  of  condemnation  ?  Therefore  every  one  muft  believe 
'  in  the  light,  if  they  deceive  Chrift  Jefus ;  and  to  as  many 

*  as  receive  him,  he  gives  "  power  to  become  the  fons  of 
''  God."  He  that  hath  the  Son  of  God,  hath  life;  they 
'  that  have  not  the  Son  of  God,  have  not  life  ;  and  if  you 
'  have  no .  life,  what  good  doth  all  your  profefiion  of  the 
'  fcripturcs  from  Genefis  to  Revelations  do  you,  any  more 
'  than  the  Jews,   Scribes,  and  Pharifees,  that  would  not  re- 

*  Cv^ve  Chrift  the  life,  upon  whom  God  brought  his  over- 
'  fl'.>wing  fcourge.  Therefore  do  you  take  heed  for  your 
'  ftrength  will  be  no  better  than  theirs,  if  you  have  not  God 
'  and  Chrift's  fupporting  power,  when  God's  fcourge  comes 
'  upon  you,  and  you  are  filled  with  horrors  and  fears.  My 
'  defires  are,  that  you  may  ail  repent,  from  the  higheft  to 
'  the  loweft,  and  not  grieve,  nor  quench,  nor  vex,  nor  re- 
'  bel  againft  God's  good  Spirit  in  you,  nor  "  walk  defpite- 
''  fully  againft  the  Spirit  of  grace,"  nor  turn  from  it  unto 
'  wantonnefs,  which  would  teach  you,  and  bring  your  fal- 
'  vation.  If  you  do,  how  can  you  efcape  the  overflowing 
'  fcourge  of  the  Almighty,  and  the  wrath  of  the  Lamb  ? 
'  My  dcfires  are,  that  you  may  all  obey  God's  good  Spirit 
'  of  truth,  which  will  lead  you  out  of  all  evil  into  all  truth, 
'  and  reprove  you  for  your  own  righteoufnefs,  and  for  your 

*  own  judgment  and  fin,  and  bring  you  to  cleave  to  that 
'  whicli  is  good,  to  forfake  that  which  is  evil,  and  to  turn  to 
'  the  I-ord,  who  will  receive  you  in  his  mercy  and  kindnels; 

*  by  which  means  you  may  efcape  the  overflowing  fcourge  in 


i677l  GEORGE    FOX's    JOURNAL.  461 

*  the  day  of  vengeance,  which  dreadful  day  is  coming  upon 

*  all  evil-doers.     This  is  a  warning  to  you,  both  for  your 

*  temporal  and  eternal  good;  for  you  to  read  in  your  affem- 

*  blies,  and  your  priefts  in  their  churches ;   fo  that  all  peo- 

*  pie  may  hear  and  fear,  as  you  will  anfwer  it  at  the  terrible 

*  and  dreadful  day  of  judgment. 

*  G.  F.' 
*  Amfterdam,  the  19th  of  the 
*  7th  month,  1677/ 


»  For  the  ambafladors  that  are  met  to  treat  for  peace  at  the 
*  city  of  Nimeguen  in  the  States  dominions. 

*  /CHRIST  Jefus  faith,  "  Blefled  are  the  peace-makers, 
«  V^  "  for  they  (hall  be  called  the  children  of  God,"  Matth* 

*  V.  9.  fo  all  Chriftian  men  are  to  forfake  evil  and  do  good, 

*  to  feek  peace  and  follow  it,  if  they  will  "  love  life,  and 
*'  fee  good  days,"  1  Pet.  iii.   11.     God  hath  called  all  true 

*  Chriflians  unto  peace,   1  Cor.  vii.  therefore  all  Chriftians 

*  ought  to  follow  this   peace,  which    God  calls    them    to. 

*  They  fliould  let  the  peace  of  God  rule  in  all  their  hearts  ; 

*  which  is  above  the  peace  of  this  world  that  is  fo  foon  broken. 
'  For  the  apoftie  commands  the  Chriftians  to  let  the  peace 

*  of  God  rule  in  their  hearts  ;  to  which  all  Chriftians  ftiouid 

*  be  fubjeft.     The  pradice  of  this  fliould  be  among  all  that 

*  profefs  Chriftianity;  and  this  peace  is   above  that  which 

*  Chrift  takes  from  the  earth,  Rev,  vi.  which  is  the  peace 
'  of  the  wicked.  The  apoftie  faith  to  Chriftians,  "  Ee  at 
**  peace  among  yourfelves."  l  Thelf.  v.  All  Chriftians 
'  Ihould  obey  this  command,  and  be  at  peace  among  them- 

*  felves ;  not  in  wars  and  ftrife.  Further,  the  apoftie  ex- 
'  horts  Chriftians  to  "  keep  the  unity  of  the  Spirit  in  the 
"  bond  of  peace."     So  this  unity,  this  bond  of  peace  fliould 

*  be  kept  (and  not  broken)  by  all  that  bear  that  noble  name. 

*  Chriftian.  They  fliould  keep  the  unity  of  the  Spirit  of 
'  Chrift  in   the  Bond  of  the    Prince   of  princes.    King  of 

*  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords  peace,  which  is  the  duty  of  all 
'  true  Chriftians.  Herein  they  may  honour  Chrift,  in 
'  bringing  forth  the  fruits  of  peace,  which  are  love  and  cha- 

*  rity.  For  the  apoftie  tells  you,  "  Tjie  fruits  of  the  good 
"  Spirit  are  love,  joy,  and  peace,  long-fu£Fering,  gcntle- 
'■  nefs,  goodnefs,"  <Scc.  Gal.  r. 


462  EPISTLES     RELATING    TO  [1677 

'  The  apoftle  exhorts  Chriflians,  "  If  it  be  poffible,  as 
"  much  as  lieth  in  you,  live  peaceable  with  all  men."  This 
'  fiiould  be  the  endeavour  of  all  Chriflians.  P'or  it  is  no 
'  honour  to  Chrift,  that  Chriflians  fhould  war  and  deflroy 
'  one  another,  that  profefs  the  name  of  Chrift,  who  faith, 
"  He  came  to  fave  men's  lives,  not  to  deftroy  them."   Chrif- 

*  tians  have  enemies  enough  abroad  without  them,  and 
'  therefore  they  fhould  love  one  another,  as  Chrift  com- 
'  mands,  who  faith,  "  By  this  ye  fhall  be  known  to  be  my 
"  difciples,  if  ye  love  one  another."  Chriftians  are  com- 
'  manded  to  love  enemies,  much  more  one  another.  And 
'  Chrift  faith,  "  As  the  Father  hath  loved  me,  fo  I  have 
"  loved  you  :  continue  ye  in  my  love,"  John  xv.  8.  "  By 
'■  this  ftiall  all  men  know  that  ye  are  my  difciples,  if  ye 
"  love  one  another,"  John  xiii.  35.  But  if  Chriftians  war 
'  and  deftroy  one  another,  this  will  make  Jews,  Turks, 
'  Tartars,  and  Heathens  fay,  you  are  not  difciples  of 
'  Chrift.  Therefore,  as  you  love  God,  and  Chrift,  and 
'  Chriftianity,  and  its  peace,  all  make  peace,  as  far  as  you 
'  have  power,  among  Chriftians,  that  you  may  have  the 
'  blefting.  You  read,  Chriftians  were  called  the  houfehold 
'  of  faith,  the  houfehold  of  God,  a  holy  nation,  a  peculiar 
'  people :  and  they  are  commanded  to  be  "  zealous  for 
"  good  works,"  not  forbad.      Chriftians  are  alfo  command- 

*  ed  not  to  bite  and  devour  one  another,  left  they  be  con- 
'  fumed  one  of  another. 

'  Ls  it  not  a  fad  thing  for  Chriftians  to  be  biting  and  con- 
'  fuming  one  another  in  the  fight  of  the  Turks,  Tartars, 
'  Jews,  and  heathens,  when  the}'  fhould  "  love  one  ano- 
"ther,  and  do  unto  all  men  as  they  would  have  men  do 
"  unto  them  ?"  Such  devouring  work  as  this  will  open  the 
'  mouths  of  Jews,  Turks,  Tartars,  and  heathens  to  blaf- 
'  pheme  the  name  of  Chrift,  the  King  of  kings,  and  Lord 

*  of  lords,  and  caufe  them  to  fpeak  evil  of  Chriftianity,  for 
'  them  to  fee  how  the  unity  of  the  Spirit  is  broken  among 
'  fuch  as  profefs  Chrift  and  Chrift's  peace.  All  Chriftians 
'  are  to  mind  God  and  Chrift's  teaching,  who  teach  Chrif- 
'  tians  to  love  one  another,  yea,  enemies  ;  and  perfuadc 
'  kings  and  princes  to  give  liberty  to  all  tender  conlciences 
'  in  matters  of  religion  and  worftiip,  they  living  peaceably 
'  under  every  government  :  fo  that  for  the  time  to  come 
'  there  may  be  no  more  imprifonment  and  perlecution 
'  amoni^   Chriftians  for  tender  conlciences  about  matters  of 


,6773  GEORGE     FOX's    JOURNAL.  463 

*  faith,  worfhip,  and  religion,  that  the  Jews,  Turks,  Tar- 

*  tars,  and  heathens  may  not  fee  how  Chriftians  are  perfe- 

*  cuting  one   another  for  religion.      Seeing  from  Chrifl  and 

*  the  apoftles  Chriftians  have   no  fuch  coinraand,   but,    on 

*  the  contrary,   to  love  one  another ;    and    knowing    that 

*  Chrift  faid  to  fuch  as  would  have  been  plucking  up  tares, 
<*  Let  the  tares  and  the  wheat  grow  together  till  the  harveft 
"  (which  is  the  end  of  the  world)  left  they  plucked  up  the 
"  wheat ;"  and  at  the  end  of  the  world  Chrift   would  fend 

*  forth  his  angels,  and  they  fhould  fever  the  wheat  from  the 

*  tares.  So  Chrift  tells  you,  it  is  the  angels  work  at  the  end 
<  of  the  world,  and  not  men's  work  before  the  harveft  at  the 
«  end  of  the  world.  Hath  not  all  this  perfecution,  banifli- 
'  ing,  imprifoning,    and  putting  to  death  concerning    reli- 

*  gion,  been  the  pretence  of  plucking  up  tares  ?  and  hath 
'  not  all  this  been  before  the  harveft,  before  the  end  of  the 
«  world?  Have  not  all  thefe  been  aftors  againft  the  exprefs 
'  command  of  Chrift,  the  king  of  heaven  ?  All  kings  and 
^  rulers,  efpecially  thofe  that  call  themfelves  Chriftians, 
'  fliould  obey  their  Lord  and  Saviour's  command  ;  "  Let 
•'  the  tares  and  the  wheat  grow  together  till  the  harveft  ;" 

*  and  the  harveft  is  the  end  of  the  world.  Aifo  Chrift  told 
'  fome  of  his  difciples,  that  would  have  had  "  fire  to  come 
*'  down  from  heaven,  to  deftroy  fuch  as  would  not  receive 
"  him  (in  their  zeal)  That  they  did  not  know  what  Spirit 
"  they  were  of:"  and  rebuked  them,  faying,  "  He  came  not 
"  to  deftroy  men's  lives,  but  to  fave  them."     Have  ail  fuch 

*  as  have  deftroyed  men's  lives  concerning  religion,  and  the 
'  worfhip  of  God,  known  what  fpirit  they  have  been  of? 

*  Have  they  not  done  that  they  fhould  not  do  ?   That  which 

*  Chrift  forbad,  who  faith,  "  Left  ye  fliould  pluck  up  the 
*'  wheat  with  the  tares,"  and  faith,  "  It  is  the  angels  work 
*'  at  the  end  of  the  world  ?"     Hath  not   God  fiiewed  unto 

*  man  what  is  good,  and  his  duty.  To  "  love  mercy,  to  do 
"  juftly,  and  to  walk  humbly  with  his  God  ?"  which  man  is 

*  to  mind. 

*  And  the  apoftle  exhorts  Chriftians  to  "  follow  peace 
*'  with  all  men,  and  holinefs,  without  which  no  man  fhali 
*'  fee  the  Lord,"  Heb.  xii.  14.  Why  fliould  Chriftians 
'  war  and  ftrive  one  with  another,  feeing  they  all  own  in 
'  words  one  King,  and  Lord  and  Saviour  Chrift  J;;fus, 
'  whofe  command  is,  that  they  fiiould  '*  love  one  another;" 
'  which  is  a  mark  that  they  fhall  be  known  by,  to  be  Chrift's 


464  EPISTLES,  &c.  [16771 

*  difciples,  as  I  faid  before.     And  Chrift,  who  is  the  King 

*  of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords,  faith,  "  As  I  have  loved  you, 
*'  fo  love  one  another,"  John  xv.  12.  and  John  xiii.     And 

*  the  apoftle  faith,  •'  Chriftians  ought  to  be  patient  towards 
*'  all  men,"  1  Theff.  v.  14. 

*  From  him  who  is  a  lover  of  truth,  righteoufnefs,  and 

*  peace,  and  defires  your  temporal  and  eternal  good ;  and 

*  that  in  the  wifdom  of  God,    that  is  pure,   gentle,   and 

*  peaceable  from  above,  you  may  be  ordered,  and  order  all 

*  things  God  hath  committed  to  you  to  his  glory,  and  ftop 
<  thofe  things  among  Chriftians,  fo  far  as  you  have  power, 

*  which  difhonour  God,  Chrift,  and  Chriftianity  ! 

*  G.  F.* 

*  Amfterdam,  the  21ft  of  the 

*  7th  month,  1677/ 


THE     END. 


INDEX. 


A 


BUSES  done  to  George  Fox,  vol,  i.  page  85,   104,   107.     By 
profeffors,  Sic.  vol.  i.  p  126,    145,    163,   209,    304.    Friends 
abufed,  vol.  i.  p  144,  378,  401,  vol,  ii,  p  15,  B4 
Adon  in  the  fields,  near  London,  where  friends  had  been  much  abufed, 

G.  F.  had  a  meeting,  vol,  i,  377 
Adam  the  firfl  and  fecond  compared,  vol.  ii.  375 
AfFedions,  lufts  and  defires  mortified,  vol.  i,  3*26 
Aged  friend  of  100  years  old,  vol.  i,  p  70  ;  one  aged  122  vol.  ii.  2B 
Allegiance  to  the  king,  vol  ii  p  38,  41,  and  fupremacy,  vol  ii  p  190 
America,  G.  Fox's  travels  there,  from  Maryland    to  New-England,     &c. 
through  the  woods  and  wildernefTes,  over  bogs  and  great  rivers 
(not   without   imminent  danger  of  fome   of  their  lives)  and 
lying  on  nights  in  the  woods,   by  a  fire  in  a  very  cold  feafon, 
the  wolves  howling  about  them,  vol  ii  p  145  to  169.    Truth's 
profperity  there,  vol  ii  p  254^     G,  F's  epiftle  to  thofe  places, 
vol  ii  p.  423 
Anointing  within  teacheth  the  believers,  vol  1  p  6,  vol  ii  p   229 
Antichrilts.     See  falfe  prophets. 

Apoftacy  entered  fince  the  days  of  the  apoflie?,  vol  i  p  382 
Apolhtes,  backfliders,  and  falfe  brethren,  are  got  into  the  terapJe  of  God, 

vol  ii  p  342,   369,  418,  419 
Apoftles  were  tradefmec,  vol  ii  p  412 
Apparel  for  pride  judged,  vol  ii  p  339 

Apparition,  forefliewing  the  death  of  O.  C.  feen  by  G.  F,  vol  i  p  ■^'■S 
Appeals  of  London  friends  tried,  vol  ii  p  359 
Apprentices  put  forth  by  monthly  meetings,  vol  ii   p    iio 
Arminians,  ftrangers  ta  the  fpirit   cf  the  apoflles,    vol  i   p  440 
Afirzcs  of  G,  F's  trials  at  Cariifle,  vol  i  p  135  ;   Lancafter,  vol  i  p  ic8, 
vol  ii  33,    52,    59;    LanceOon,  vol  i   p  2?o  ;    Nottin^liam-. 
vol  ii  p  5  :  V/orcefier  vol  ii  p  185,     See  fcfliono. 
Allrologcrs.      See  ftar-gazers, 

B 

Backfliders  warned,  vol  ii  p  346.      See  apouates. 
Vol.     II.  0     N 


INDEX. 

Baniniment  of  G.  F.  in  Scotland,  vol  i  p  342.  Banifhment  and  impri- 
foning  for  religion  is  no  part  of  Chrift's  dodrine,  vol  ii  p  256. 
Friends  banifhed  in  England,  vol  ii  p  73  ;  at  Dantzick, 
vol  ii  p  414 

Baptifm,  vol  i  p  212,   285,   294 

Baptift  meetinos,  vol  i  p  15,  134,  171.  Baptifts  difconrfed  by  G.  F. 
vol  i  p  35,  133,  184.  A  teacher  convinced,  vol  i  p  144, 
186,  206.  Baptifts  in  Warwick,  vol  i  p  208.  In  Notting- 
hamfhire,  vol  i  p  20.  Baptifts  and  Fifth-monarchy-men  pro- 
phefied  of  Chrifl:  to  come  that  year  to  reign,  vol  i  p  262.  A 
Baptift  woman  reftored,  vol  i  p  210.  Baptifts  deny  G.  F. 
their  raeeting-houfe,  vol  i  p  212.  Particular  Baptifts,  vol  i 
P214. 

Battledore,  the  author's  account  thereof,  vol  i  p  436,  vol  ii  p  31. 

Believers  are  born  of  God,  vol  i  p  6. 

Bible  given  to  G.  F.  to  fwear  upon,  which  forbids  fwcaring,  vol  ii  p  57» 
and  teaches  the  plain  language,  vol  ii  p  69. 

Bonds  for  appearance  refufed,  vol  ii  p  19.     Bonds  for  good  behaviour,  vol  ii 

.     P  185- 
Book,  fee  bible.     Books  writ  and  anfwered  by  G.  F.  vol  ii  p  62,  vol  ii 

p  78,   199,  201. 
Bowling  and  foolifti  exercifes  denied,  vol  i  p  271. 
Bread  and  wine.      See  Papifts. 
Brown's  prophecy  of  G.  F.  vol  i  p  16. 
Brownifts,  vol  i  p  440,  vol  ii  p  228. 

Butchers  and  rude  people  bind  ihemfelves  with  an  oath  to  kill  G.  F.  vol  i 
*p  .57. 

C 

Calviniftsj  vol  i  p  440. 

Carr-ibridge,  fcholars  rudenefs,  vol  i  p  192. 

Captain  much  given  to  laughter  convinced,  vol  i  p  213,  In  Scotland  his 
impious  iaying,  vol  i  p  3^9* 

Carlifle  in  an  uproar,  vol  i  p  134.  G.  F.  in  Carlifle  prifon,  vol  i  p  137, 
144. 

Cartmeil  Wapentake  Court,  vol  ii  p  2S8. 

Certificates  to  be  brought  by  frien  Is  proceeding  to  marriage,  vol  ii  p  87 

Clieat  di;'>ovcrcd  by  G-  F.  vol  ii  p  90 

Civ.ift,  the  teacher  of  his  people,  vol  i  p  132.  The  Reft,  vol  ii  p  337. 
Sun  of  righteoufnefs,  vol  ii  p  3(')6.  A  quickening  Spirit, 
vol  li  p  371.  Who  can  fpeak  to  men's  conditions,  vol  i  p  9, 
II,  if)  ;  and  is  known  by  revelation,  vol  i  9,  &c. 

Church,  the  true  and  the  falfe,  vol  i  p  356.    The  church  of  Chrift  clothed 
with  the  fun,  vol  ii  p  365 
of  Rome   degenerated,    vol   i  p   364,   439  ;    perfecuting,    vol  i 

r  3^7 
of  England's  faith,  vol  i  p  376 
Climate's  fuU.'en  change  and  variety  in  America,  vol  ii  p  163 
Cloifters,  monalferies,  "kc.  tliere  is  no  fcripture  for  them,  vol  i  p  364 
Coldbe.  k  (Ueple-houfe  ;   Robert  Wic!dc:rs   going  thither,   Sec.   was  almoft 

killtc!  by  tlie  peo  Jc,  vol  i  p  [44 
Collejjc'S  canr.or  m'lke  minifters  of  Chrift,  vol  i  p  35  J 
Colle^iians,  vol  ii  p  228,  232 


INDEX. 

Committee  of  fafetj',  &c.  their  procLiimicg  fafts   is   like  Jezebel's,   vol  i 

P  374 
Conjuror  (fo  reputed)  reproved  by  G.  F.  in  gaol,  vol  i  p  59 
Conlcience,  a  witnefs  to  truth,  vol  i  p  371  to  374;  is    not  to   be  forced, 

vol  ii  p  350  ;  mud  be  void  of  offence,  vol  ii  p  361 
Contentions  not  to  be  in  meetings,  vol  ii  p  268 

Conventicle  adc  is,  not  to  do  as  they  would  be  done  by,  vol  ii  p  113,  117 
Convincements  in  the  nation  in  the  beginning,  vol  i  p  15,  19,  20,  &c.  vol  i 

p  141;,  147,  151,  152,  159  ;  London,  vol  i  p  173 
In  Oliver  Cromwel's  houfe  and  family,  vol  i  p  173 
Cromwel,   Oliver,  his  difcourfe  with  G.  F.  vol  i  p  169,  277.      A  friend 

offers  himfcif  to  O.  C.  to  lie  in  prifon  for  G,  F.  vol  i  p  266 
Crofs,  the  pov;er  of  God,  vol  i  p  12,  15,  362 
Covetoufnefs  of  wrecks,  6cc.  reproved,  vol  i  p  390,  vol  ii  p  434 
Cutpurfe  at  feffions  fearching  friends  pockets  is  fet  at  liberty,  vol  ii  p  16 

D 

Dangers  and  perils  of  G.  F.  vol  i  p  30,  38,  83,  99,  104,  lofi,  1 14,  124, 

128,    135,    137,   157,  218,  222,232,279,306,319,333, 
*  3^3»  394'  397»  ^^^  'i   P   '7»  26,  78,  84,  102,  at  fea,  vol  ii 

p  129  ;  by  knives,  rapiers,  rude  multitudes,  beatings,  bruifings, 

and  binding  themfelves  with  an  oath  to  kill  him. 
Day  of  judgment  coming  upon  perfecutors,  vol  ii  p  125.     The  day  of  the 

Lord's  wrath  is  kindled  upon  them,  vol  i  p  180 
Deceivers  beyond  the  priefts  that  (land  in  deceit  defcribed,  vol  i  p  23 
Declaration  of  G.  F's  offered  by  him  to  the  court  inftead  of  the  oath,  vol  ii 

p  190 
Devil,  he  was  not  made  of  God,  vol  i  p  187,  vol  ii  p  22 
Differences  about  outward  things  to  be  fnunned,  vol  ii  p  419 
Difputes  at  Leicefter,  vol  i  p  19 

with  the  prieft  of  Grayrigg,  £cc.  vol  i  p  124,  125 
at  Drayton,  vol  i  p  foi 
G.  F.  with  prieft  Wilkinfon,  vol  i  p  147 
Difpute  of  James  Nayler  with  eight  priefts,  vol  i  p  206 

A  vain  difputer  anfwered,  vol  ii  p  34.      Vain  janglings  to  be 

fhun.ned,  vol  ii  p  208 
Dogs  did  not  move  their  tongues  againft  them,  vol  ii  162 
Do  unto  others  as  you  would  have  others,  &c.  vol  i  P  3i>  39'i  vol  ii  p  35  i> 

416,  421 
Dreams  relied  on  by  a  people,  vol  i  p  7 
Drought  was  great  in  England,  vol  i'  p  308 
Drunkennefs  teftified  againft  by  G.  F.  at  inns  in  his  travels,  vol   i  p   214, 

2  79'   391 
Great   drunkennefs    at  the    choofing   of  pailiaraent-men,   vol   i 

P  397 
Dwarfs  not  to  come  nigh  the  altar  of  God,  vol  ii  p  399,  404 

Out   of  Chrift  all  mankind  are  imperfe»fi  and  deformed,  vol  ii 

P  377 

E 

Egyptians  afflidt  Ifrael  till  the  Lord  overthrows  them,  vol  i  p  256 
Eledtion  and  reprobation,  vol  i  p  75,  133,  214,  316,  335,  vol  ii  p  105,  ic6 
3   N   2 


INDEX. 

Embaffador  with  Irifhrnen  come  to  difturb  the  meeting,  vol  1  p  431 

Embafladors  at  Nimeguen  :   G.  F.'s  epiftle  to  tliem,  vol  ii  p  461  to  464 

Enemies,  who  are  the  word:  to  truth,  vol  ii  p  213 

Epifcopal  men  cannot  affirm  they  have  the  fame  fpirit  as  the  apoftles  had, 
vol  i  p  440 

Errors  pleaded  in  Margaret  Fell's  indicflment,  vol  ii  p  54 

in  G.  F.'s  indidment  pleaded    by  iiimfelf,  vol  ii  p  54,  55,  and 
the  fecond  indidment  quaflitd  by  errors,  vol  ii  p  61 

Examples.     See  judgments 

Excife-men  warned,  vol  i  p  37 

Excommunicated  friends  in  Scotland,  none  was  to  buy  or  fell  with  them, 
vol  i  p  344;  in  England,  vol  ii  p  70 

Experiences  formerly  had,  or  other  men's  fpoken  and  preached  from,  vol  i 
p  101,  vol  ii  p  205,  213 
F 

Faith  gives  vidory  over  fin,  vol  i  p  338.  Chrifl  is  the  author  of,  vol  i 
p  376.      Stands  in  the  power  of  God,  vol  ii  p  203,   210 

Fanatics,  who  and  what  they  are,  vol  i  p  388,  406 

Falhions,  and  vanities  of  the  world  teftified  againU,  vol  ip  31,  vol  ii  425. 
See  Apparel' 

Fall  of  G.  F's,  vol  i  p  112,  126.  Of  a  woman  in  Lancafhire,  vol  i  p 
15.  Proclaimed  by  O.  C.  for  rain,  vol  i  p  308.  A  day  of 
humiliation,  vol  i  p  370.  The  true  and  falfe,  vol  i  p  308  to 
313.     And  holy  days  fo  called,  vol  ii  p  175 

Tjidrng  and  prayer,  vol  ii  450,  451 

Feafting  and  fporting,  whiUt  others  were,  G.  F.  vifited  the  poor,  relieving 
them,  vol  i  p  5 

Fees  Marlliars,  vol  ip  419,  vol  ii  p  72.  G.  F.  could  not  pay,  being  in- 
nocent, and  the  gaoler's,  vol  ip  270,  vol  ii  p  16 

Fell,  Judge,  fends  a  warrant  againft  the  abufers  of  G.  F.  vol  i  p  107,  and 
grants  a  fuperfedeas  of  a  warrant  againlt  him,  vol  i  p  109 

Fell,  Margaret,  Ihevvs  to  the  king  friends  lufferings  and  innccency,  vol  i  p 
420. 

Fellowfliips  in  outward  things  will  corrupt  and  wither,  vol  ii  p  52 

Fifth-monarchy-men's  uproar,  vol  i  p  418.  They  cleared  friends  openly 
at  their  execution,  vol  i  p  427.  They  look  for  Chrill's  per- 
fonal  coming,  vol  i  p  440.     Are  fighters,  ibid 

Fighters  are  not  of  Chrifl's  kingdom,  vol  i  p  3b2.  Sion  needs  no  fuch, 
ibid,  and  vol  i  p  43 1^.     See  wars. 

Fox,  George,  his  place  of  birth,  parents  and  rchitions,  voli  p  i,  3,  50, 
165,  398,  vol  ii  p  80,  178  ;  his  cloaths  and  wear,  vol  i  p  73, 
214  ;  his  marriage,  vol  ii  p  1  10  ;  a  great  weight  fell  upon  his 
fpirit,  vol  ii  p  J20;  his  travels  and  lulferings  at  Reading,  vol 
i  p  379,  381,  397,  417  ;  oiFers  his  hair  and  cheek  to  the 
threatener,  vol  i  p  431  ;  and  labours  diligently  in  the  work  of 
the  Lord,  vol  ii  p  422  ;  his  perfecutors  would  have  hiingcd 
him,  vol  i  p  135  ;  his  care  for  truth  and  friends,  vol  ii  p  437  ; 
h-z  prays  to  the  Lord,  vol  i  p  j  8,  vol  ii  p  i  26  ;  and  for  the 
an-iictcd,  vol  i  p  37,  vol  ii  p  30S,  &:c.  fee  miracles  ;  his  weak- 
ncls  of  body,  vol  ii  0414,  4-^8  ;  death  and  burial,  vol  ii  p 
437,  4'^o;  whofe  name  is  written  in  the  Lamb's  book  of  life, 
which  was  before  the   foundation  o:"  tne  world  }  vol   i  p  27  ; 

<  ,.  .  his  '.-^^Ilk  left  feah'd  up,  vol  i;  p  439 


INDEX. 

Fox,  Mary,  mother  of  G.  F.  died,  vol  ii  p  i86 
Frederickftadt,  friends  caufe  pleaded  by  G.  F.  Tol  ii  p  331   to  335 
Friends  much  abufed  by  prieft  and  people,  vol  i  p  83,   104.     Their  charity 
to  the  poor,  vol  i  p  400 


Gaoler  of  Derby  watches  G.  F.  for  evil,  being  in  a  rage  againft  him,  i  40, 
his  vifion  concerning  G.  F.  i  45  ;  was  convinced  of  truth  ; 
G.  F.  finding  him  among  friends,  i  398  ;  and  afterwards  he 
wrote  a  fenfible  letter  to  G.   F.  ii  8 

Gaolers  of  Carlifle,  their  cruelty  againfl:  G.  F.  i  135,  137  ;  fo  that  the 
under-gaoler  was  put  into  the  dungeon  to  G.  F.  for  ufing  him 
fo  badly,  i  144 

Gaoler  at  Lancefton,  i  220,  his  wickednefs  and  rage  againfl  G.  F.  &c.  i 
229,  had  been  a  thief  and  burnt  in  the  hand,  i  230,  and  after- 
wards was  put  into  Doomfdale  hinifelf,  and  died  in  prifon, 
i  266 

Under-Gaoler  at  Lancafler,  a  very  wicked  man,  i  404 ;  and  the  upper- 
gaoler,  Hunter,  was  cut  off  in  young  days  for  his  wickednefs 
to  G.   F.  ii  64,  76 

Gaoler  at  Leicefter  was  very  cruel  to  friends  in  prifon  before  G.  F.  came 
there,  ii    14 

Gaoler  of  Durham,  incenfing  the  governor  and  foldiers  of  Scarborough 
caftle  againft  G.  F.  was  cut  off  in  his  wickednefs,  ii  76 

God's  people  to  be  like  unto  him,  ii  386 ;  the  power  of  God  thundered 
amongft  the  magiftrates  of  Derby,  &c.  i  39 

Good  behaviour,  G.  F.  could  not  confent  to  be  bound  to,  who  had  com- 
mitted no  ill  behaviour,  i  50.      See  Bond. 

Good  morrow,  good  evening,  &c.  vain  cuftoms  and  traditions,  forbidden, 
i  29 

Goods  ill-gotten  are  a  curfe  to  men,  i  391 

Gofpel  is  not  the  four  evangelifts,  ii  23 

Governments,  change  of,  God  has  a  mighty  hand  therein,  i  411 

Governor  of  Dover  convinced,  i  186 

Governor  of  Tinmouth   Caftle,  with  others,  vifits  G.   F.  in  prifon,  ii  67 

Grace  of  God  teaches  thofe  that  turn  to  it,  i  28,  298  ;  which  hath  appear- 
ed to  all  men,  ii  68 

Grammar  and  accidence  diftinguifh  the  fingular  from  the  plural,  ii  69 

Groans  which  broke  forth  through  G.  F.  did  reach  to  people  and  ilrike 
them,  i  69 

H 

Habeas  Corpus,  &c.   for  G.   F's  removal,  i  409,  ii  183,   190,    197 

Hacker,  Col.  his  fon  Needham's  wicked  laying  of  G.  F.  i  167 

Hacker,  Col.  cut  off,  being  hanged  at  Tyburn,  i  168;  his  wife  and  mar- 
fliil  convinced  of  the  truth,  i  205 

Hogget,  judge,  his  wife  vifus  G.  F.  in  Lanceflon  gaol,  and  was  convin- 
ced, i  248 

Hairwornlong  of  G.  F.  i  217,  274,  323 

Hale,  judge,  his  anfwer  to  G.  F's  adverfaries  in  court,  ii  198 

Hands  not  to  be  laid  on  any  fuddcnly,  i  358 


INDEX. 

Honour  hat,  proud  fiefli  looks  for,  129,  30,  148,  221,  224,  228,  341, 
348  ;  a  profeflbr's  proof  for  it  from  fcripture  (pretendedly) 
i  232;  profeiTors  offended  at  it,  i  304,  3;9  ;  friends  fined 
for  it,  i  261  ;  and  imprifoned,  &c.  i  316,  378,  ii  116,  184; 
The  hat  kept  on  in  prayer  by  J.  Perrot  and  his  party,  ii  81 

Hebrew,  Greek,  and  Latin  makes  no  miniftcr  of  Chrift,  i  351 

Hirelings  and  diviners  for  money  get  vaft  fums  of  it  by  felling  the  fcriptures, 
i  32,    164 

Honour,  the  true  from  the  falfe  diftinguifhed,  i  30,  250,   360,  ii  34,  78 

Hornby  caltle  robbed  of  the  wainfcot,  and  bucks  horns  in  major  Porter's 
houfe,  i  408,  409 

Houfe-creepers  leading  filly  women  captive,  &c.  are  fuch  as  having  crept 
into  temples,  with  tithes  and  offerings,  keep  people  always 
learning  under  them,  &c.  i  376 

Houfe  of  Ifraei,  the  houfe  of  God,  ii  407,  408 

Humility  goes  before  honour,  i  250,  ii  211,   278 

J 

Jeroboam's  calves  houfes  likened  to  the  houfes  called  churches,  fet  up  in 
the  darknefs  of  popery,  i  103 

Jerufalem  which  comes  down  from  heaven,  its  ftate  defcribed,  ii  123,  the 
children  thereof,  ii  441 

Jefuits,  two  of  them  (fawning  upon  friends)  difcourfed  by  G.  F.  con- 
cerning the  degeneracy  of  the  church  of  Rome,  i  363,  366, 
438  ;  who  are  filthy  dreamers,  dreaming  they  are  the  apolHes 
fucceffors,  i  439 ;  and  are  in  a  rage  againft  the  work  of  the 
Lord,  ii  106  ;  and  perfecute  to  death  for  religion,  i  36^ 

Jew  difcourfed  by  G.  F.  concerning  the  coming  of  the  Meffiah,  ii  235  ; 
others  would  not  difcourfe,  ii  249 

Imprifonments  for  not  fwearing,  i  203  ;  for  tithes,  and  going  to  lleeple- 
hoiifes,  i  288,  316,  327,  ii  441  ;  G.  F.  impnfoned  in  a  fil- 
thy prifon  at  Nottingham,  133;  in  Derby  prifon,  i  39,  63  ; 
in  Lancefton  prifon,  i  220,  227;  Doomfdale,  i  229;  Lan- 
cefton  gaol,  i  232;  at  Leicefter,  ii  1  3  to  i6;  in  Lancafter 
prifon,  ii  35,  63  ;  in  Scarborough  caftle,  ii  65  to  74;  taken 
at  London  meetings  and  had  before  magiftrates,  ii  115;  in 
Worcefter  gaol,  ii  176,  177  ;  being  premunired,  ii  197  ;  and 
the  errors  of  the  indi<5lment  pleaded  at  the  king's  bench  bar, 
and  was  fet  at   liberty,  ii  198  ;  friends   imprifoned  to  death, 

"  9>  73»  444 

Independents,  i  loc,  440 

Indian  king,  difcourfed  by  G.  F.  and  fcveral  Indians  at  the  king's  cabin, 
ii  164;  their  gravity  and  attention,  ii  ;68 

Indiftments,  errors,  pleaded  by  G.  F.  ii  54  to  61,  64,  191  ;  calls  it  a 
bundle  of  lies,  ii  189  ;  is  qualhed,  ii  191 

Informers  .hired  in  Cumberland  ii  29;  fet  at  work  by  priefts,  a  papift  in- 
former againrt  G.  F.  ii  115,  they  make  fpoil,  ii  293  ;  Hil- 
ton, ii  297;  Shad,   ii  321 

Inn-keepers  in  Wales,  their  treachery  to  G.  F's  horfe,  i  318  ;  another  of 
Topfliam,   burns  G.  F's  leathern  girdle,  i  214 

Inquifition,  friends  travelling  in  the  fervice  of  the  Lord  were  many  times 
in  danger  thereof,  but  preferved,  i  151  ;  and  at  Dunkirk, 
i  i86  ;  two  women  friends  were  in  that  at  Malta,  ii  8 


INDEX. 

Ireland,  friends  chanty  for  the  relief  of  friends  fufferers  in  England,  ii  348 

Judge  and  juries  wrong  proceedings  in  G.  F's  cafe,  ii  186;  a  judge's  bafe 
expre/Iion,  ii  185  ;  of  Holland  difcourfed  by  G.  F.  ii  248 

Judoing,  the  church  of  Chrift  hath  power  and  ability  to  judge,  ii  264 
•265,  352,   359,   419 

Judgments  of  God,  on  Derby,  i  63,  upon  a  falfe  accufer  of  G.  F.  181, 
82  ;  on  a  perfecutor,  i  1 17  ;  upon  Adam  Sands,  i  122  ;  on 
two  perfecuting  juftices  of  Carlifle,  i  151  ;  on  confpirators 
againfl;  G.  F.  i  158  ;  on  captain  Drury,  i  170  ;  on  a  mock- 
er of  friends  meetings,  i  389  ;  on  Preflon's  wife,  i  404  ;  up- 
on New-England,  i436;  an  independent  Scottifh  pallor,  i 
338,  339  ;  a  foldier  fpeaking  evil  of  the  light,  i  347  ;  upon 
perfecuting  envious  officers,  ii  21  ;  upon  a  perfecutor  in  Corn- 
Avall,  ii  23,  24  ;  In  Lancafliire,  ii  37  :  on  juftice  Fleming, 
ii  43  ;  on  major  Wiggan,  i  43  ;  on  perfecutors  and  bad  men, 
i  73  ;  on  juflices,  G.  F's  perfecutors,  i  76  ;  upon  a  common 
fvvearer  in  Barbadoes,  ii  132;  on  juftice  Simpfon,  ii  193; 
and  on  jufHce  Street,  ibid  ;  on  perfecuting  powers,  i  387  ; 
day  of  judgment.      See  day. 

Juftices  fair  proraifes  at  Worcefter  aiTize  broken,  ii  179,  to  181  ;  enfnar- 
ing  queftions,  ii  219 

Juftices  fitting  about  hiring  fervants  were  admonifhed  and  exhorted  by  G. 
F.  to  juftice,  and  the  fervants  to  do  their  duty,  i  20  ;  courts  of 
juftice  warned  by  G.   F.  to  do  juftly,  i  30 

K 

Keat,  captain,  his  bafe  carriage  to  G.  F.  i  219 

King  Charles   II.   his  coming  in,  i    379,   397,   408  ;    old  king's  judges 
executed,    i  428  ;    to  the   king  and   council,    a  declaration, 
i  421 
Kings  of  France  and  Spain,  and  the  Pope,  to  prove  all  things,  &c.  in  an 
epiftle  of  G.  F's  to  the  pope  and  all  kings  and  rulers  in  Eu- 
rope, i  180 
King's  bench  bar,  G.   F.  being  removed  by  Habeas  Corpus,  had  his  trial 
there,  i  414,  415,  ii  183,  191,  197 
evil,  a  friend's  daughter  being  healed  of,  ii   200 
Kingdom  of  Chrift  has  been  let  up  above  1 600  years  ago,  i  440 
is  in  peace  and  rigiiteoufnefs,  i  422,  423 
its  heirs  arc  fuch  as  are  regenerated  and  born  again,  ii  389  to  393 


Landmark,  thofe  that  removed  it,  to  caufe  the  blind  to  wander,  were  curfed, 

ii  41  I 
Languages.     See  Tongues. 

Law  of  God  is  perfect:,  i  13;  is  written  in  the  heart,  i  423 
Lawyers  muft  be  reformed  and  brought  into  the  law  of  God,  i  23 
Liberty  and  freedom  man  is  brought  into  by  the  miniftry  of  Clirilt  and  his 

teaching,  i  14  ;  an  intention  was  in  the  government  of  gaining 

friends  liberty,  i  417 
true  liberty  is  in  that  which  puts  down  fin  and  iniquity,  ii  273, 

274 


INDEX. 

the  falfe  liberty  is  from  the  way  of  truth,  ii  344 
Life  eternal  is  in  Chrift,  not  in  the  fcriptures,  ii   396,  397 
Light  is  not  natural,  i  27,  167,  216,   217,223,    277,   295,    314,   315;, 
326 

and  grace,  i  336 

curfed  by  the  Scotch  priefts,  i  337 

all  are  enlightened,  ii  43 

denied  by  Dr.  Witty,  ii  68 

alfo  by  a  Dr.  in  Carolina,  ii  161 

which  gives  the  light  of  the  knowledge,  ii  229,  393,  429 
Little  Eafe,  a  prifon  whereinto  Richard  Sale  was  fqueezed,  that  not  long 

after  he  died,  i  430 
Love  of  God,  its  infinitenefs,  in,   16 

and  charity's  efFeds,  ii  361,419 

and  unity  is  from  the  Spirit  of  God,  ii  420 

M 

Magiflratcs  mufl:  yield  to  truth,  I  139  to  142 
are  to  do  juRice,  i  392 
and  flop  profanenefs,  i  41  2 
their  fword  again il  evil  doers,  ii  32 

of  Dantzick,  their  work  of  perfecution,  ii  255,  349,  414 
Marriages,  i  5,  Hated,  ii  71,  77  ;  the  proceedings  thereof  fettled,  ii  87, 
ii  134,  217;  to  be  laid  before  the  monthly  and  quarterly 
meetings,  ii  87,  and  to  have  certificates,  ibid;  a  cafe  of  mar- 
riage tried  at  Nottingham  affizes,  ii  5  ;  marriage  in  E.hode- 
Ifland,  ii  150;  friends  care  therein,  ^327 
Major-general  of  Northamptonfhire,  an  old  perfecutor,  fliarply  reproved  by 

G.  F.  i  278 
Meetings  with    friendly  people  in  Derbyfhire,  i,  8  ;  at  Broughton,  i    15  j 
of  friends   fet  up,  i    103;  at  T.   Leper's,  i   114;  Atnfide, 
i  126;  great  at   London,  i    172;  near   Aflon  in  tlie   fields, 
i  173  ;  one  near   London,  where  friends  were   much  abufed, 
i  377  ;  monthly  and  quarterly,  men's  and  women's  fet  up  in 
London,    and   in    the  nation,  ii   81,  84,   88,     lOo;     in  the 
power  of  God,  which  is  the  authority  thereof,  ii  207,   212; 
and  are   of  God's  ordering,  ii    365  ;  being  fet  up  in  his  wif- 
dom,  ii   439  ;    of  women    fet   up,  and   the    fervice    thereof, 
ii  174;  yearly  in   Bedfordfliire,  i  354;  at  Balby,   (Boultbie, 
Yorklhire)  i  398  ;  York,  ii  419  ;  and   at  London,  ii    127  ; 
for  fufFerings  at  Skipton  fet  up,  i  400  ;  powerful  in  Ireland  ; 
ii  102 
Minifters  went  forth,  i  127  ;  from  the  north  country  over  England,  i  152  ; 
into  Scotland,  i  173  ;  and  beyond  the  feas,  i,    184 
truth  fpreading  in  England,  i  248 
True  Minifter's  trial,  i  181  ;  exercifing  their  gift,  i  357  ;  and 
founding  abroad  their  trumpets,  ii  105 
ofChrifl,  i  6,  9,  14;  ii  68,   207 
take  no  hire,  ii  152 
Miracles  v/roiight  by  tiie  power  of  God,  i  206  ;  fhe  that  was  ready  to  ilre 
raifcd  op  again,  i  210  ;  the  lame  made  whole,  i  126  ;  the  dil- 
eafcd  reddrcd,  ii  200;    a  diftratfled  woman  healed,  i  34.   See 


INDEX. 

trouble  of  mind  ;  a  gnn  m.in  given  orer  by  pbyficians  reftor- 
ecl,  137,  3^  ;  G.  F.  prays  for  a  diilraded  woman  at  Ciii- 
chefter,  i  211;  reftores  J.  Jay's  neck,  (broke  as  the  people 
faid)  by  a  fall  from  a  liorfe  in  Ead  Jerfey,  ii  154  ;  fpeaks  to  a 
fick  man  in  Maryland,  who  was  raifed  up  by  the  Lord's  power, 
ii  157,  and  prays  the  Lord  to  rebuke  J.  C's  infirmity,  and 
the  Lord  by  his  power  foon  gave  him  eafe,  &c.  ii  308 

Monk,  general,  his  order  requiring  all  officers  and  foldiers  to  forbear  dlf- 
turbing  Qu^akers'  meetings,  i  397  ;  which  are  not  leditious, 
i  426 

Mountebanks  vanity,  131;  their  ignorance,  i  305 

Montague,  Judge,  G.  F;  difcourfing  him  at  his  chamber  in  London  about 
tithes,  ii  289 

Muggletonians,  i  440 

Mufquetoes  in  America,  little  flies  or  gnats,  ii  152 

Mufick  and  finging,  i  3  i 

N 

Names  are  given  to  things  according  to  their  nature,  i  22 
Natures  of  creatures  outward  to  be  read  within  man,  i  16,  24,  99 

That  all  things  come  by  nature,  refuted,  i  20 
Nayler,  James,  runrting  into  imaginations,  is  warned  by  G.  F.  i  273.    His 

recovery,  i  274.     His  followers,  i  306. 
Nebuchadnezzar's  dream  of  Chrift's  kingdom,  which  is  not  of  this  world, 

Negroes  and  family  meeting'-,  recommended,  ii  434 

New-England  profeffors  proclaimed  a  fad,  i   374.      Soon  after  put  four 

friends  to  death,  and  became  bloody  perfecutors,  i  432.     G. 

F.  charged  their  magiftrates  with  murdering  them,  according 

to  their  own  confeflion,  i  435,  who  felt  God's  judgments  for 

their  wickednefs,  ii  251 
News  hearing  and  telling,  i  78,  ii  413 
Nicknames.     See  Sirrah 

O 

Oath  or  engagement  to  O.  Cromwel,  1151.  Swear  not  at  all,  i  1^0,  222 
to  224.  Oath  of  abjuration,  i  201,  tendered  to  G.  F.  i  217. 
His  paper  againfl:  fvvearing  read  in  court,  i  224.  Oaths  and 
fwearing,  ii  37  to  39,  ii  422.  refufed  by  G.  F.  ii  33,  69  to 
71,  &c.   being  unlawful,  ii  70. 

Oaths  of  allegiance  and  iupremacy,  ii  6,  13,  ic,  33,  198.  Oath  taken 
falfely  againlt  friends,  ii  21,  Oath  tendered  to  G.  F.  ii  52, 
57,  180.  Allegiance,  wherein  it  contiits,  ii  68.  what  G.  Y. 
could  fay  inftead  of  it,  ii  180.  and  of  fupremacy,  ii  181,  184, 
190 

Offering,  the  true  and  the  falfe,  ii  379  to  382,  395,  399,  430. 

Old  caufe,  the  fctting  up  thereof  was  for  themfelves,  i  388 

Oldenburg,  magiftrates  and  people,  a  warning  to  them,  ii  445  to  448 

Openings  of  G.  F's,  i  7,  9,  17,  27  ;  of  the  things  of  the  creation,  121; 
of  phyfick,  divinity,  and  law,  &c.  i  22 

Oppofers  of  the  faithful  come  to  ncjght,  ii  439 
Vol.  II.  3  cj 


INDEX. 

Order  of  Bodmin  feffions  for  the  prifoners  eafe  i  231 

Order  and  difcipline  in  the  church  of  Chriit  maintained,  ii  344,  345  ;  is  of 

the  Spirit,   ii  370 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  teachers  cannot  make  minifters  of  Chrift,  i  6,  9 
Oxford  fcholars  rudenefs,  i  280 


Papifts,  their  fuperftltlon  of  confecrated  bread  and  wine,  i  365,  366;  images, 
crofTes,  and  relicks,  i  364,  ii  9;  pray  by  beads,  i  439,  ii  37^^ 5 
and  fprinkle  children,  ii  96  ;  their  purgatory,  ib.  artd  mother- 
church  pretended,  ii  97  ;  A  warning  to  them,  i  179,  180;  and 
their  murdering  falfe  doftrine  confuted,  ii  67 

Pardon  being  offered  by  the  king  to  G.  F.  he  could  not  take  it,  ii  196;  and 
was  fairly  freed  without  it,  ii  198 

Parliament-men  difcourfing  G.  F.  in  prifon,  ii  68 

Parnel,  James,  convinced,  (1653)  i  137;  was  at  a  difpute  of  G.  Fox's 
againft  eight  priefls,  &c.  at  Drayton,  on  an  hill,  (1654)  i  162; 
imprifoned  in  Colcherter  Caftle  (1655)  i  138;  is  vifited  by 
G.  F.  in  prifon,  i  188;  the  gaoler's  wife  threatened  to  have  his 
blood,  ib.  who  died  by  a  fall  from  a  ladder  going  up  to  his 
prifon,  i  13S;  of  whom  profefTors  (to  cover  their  cruelty)  faid 
he  fafted  himfclf  to  death,  ib. 

Patience  and  faith's  exercife,  i  330 

People  flew  like  chaff  before  the  dreadful  power  of  God,  i  39,  99;  people 
trembled  and  fhook  in  Carlifle  iteeple-houfe,  i  1 34.  See  Shaking. 

Perfe(5tIon,  a  prie{t  diicourfes  G.  F.  about  it,  ii  187. 

Perfedion  in  Chrift  is  above  Adam's,  ii  138  ;  imperfection  pleaded  for  by 
profeffbrs,  i  45,  145 

Perfecution  judged,  i  1 15  to  1 17  ;  teftified  againfj:,  and  perfecutors  warned, 
i  235  to  248;  they  being  blinded,  i  259,  327  to  330,  412, 
and  not  knowing  what  fpirit  they  are  of,  i  411  ;  perfecutors 
to  blood,  ii  91  ;  perfecutors  reftrained,  ii  78,  79,  83,  84, 
103  ;  perfecution  violent  at  London  meeting,  ii  121  ;  tefli- 
monies  againlt  it,  ii  257,  259,  283,  286,  298,  299,  443* 
445  ;  in  its  event  productive  of  good,  ii  445.  Four  friends 
in  New  England  hanged,  i  432,  43 c,  436 

PhyHck  and  letting  blood,  a  prieft's  remedy  againft  a  troubled  mind,  i  5 
Phyficians  mufl:  be  in  the  wifdom  of  God,  i  23 
Pleafures  and  vain  delights  denied,  i  iGg,  270 

Plots  and  fightings,  friends  declaration  againft,  {421  to  427  ;  and  denied, 

Poland's  exiled  Proceltants,  x  369,  370;  king  of  Poland,  two  letters  to  him 

from  G.  F.  ii  255,  and  ii  349 
Powers  of  the  earth,  i  363 

Prayers  in  fighs  and  groans,  i  332  ;   liov/  to  pray,  ii  378,  379 
Preachers  (congregational)  at  a  meeting  with  G.  F.  i  ^14 
Premunire  of  G.  F.  ii  61  ;  of  two  friends  in  Devonuiire,  ii  91 ;  Cjunicllor 

Corbet's  plea  for  G.  F.  in  court,  ii.  1 98 
Prefbyterian  meeting  flufFed  witli  bread  and  checfe,  5:c.  ii  S5 
Prefs-maflers  on  board  of  G.  F's  ve/Tcl,  ii  120,  170 
Pride  in  apparel,   i  177  to  179 


INDEX. 

Priefls  fell  the  fcriptures,  132;  pray  by  form,  i  165  ;  tlieir  fpirit,  132; 
they  are  hirelings,  i  123,  163,  cic.  tithe-takers,  i  2t'\;  rob- 
bers of  the  people,  and  not  minifters  of  the  gcfpe!,  ii  62  ; 
plead  for  fin  and  imperfedlion,  i  40,  45,  63  ;  are  confounded, 
i  73;  dreaded  the  man  in  leathern  breecher,  i  73;  a  prieft 
trembles,  i  84;  hides  himfelf  from  G.  F.  i  gf)  ;  are  miferable 
comforters,  i  5  ;  reproved  by  judge  Fell,  &c.  at  feffions  for 
their  grofs  afiertions,  i  109J  reproved  in  the  ftreets,  i  iio. 
Eight  priefts  difpute  againd:  G.  F.  i  162;  are  falfe  prophets 
and  antichrids,  i  12.S  ;  One  pleads  for  adultery,  ii  182  ;  one 
beats  friends,  ii  ico;  is  choaked  by  a  parfonage,  i  38;  and 
love  a  fat  benefice,  i  206,  ii  69  ;  fo  much  a  year,  i  396  ;  the 
devil's  lawyers  and  counftllors,  i  331  :  opprelfors,  i  62;  per- 
fecutors,  i  255,  ii  79,  121 

Prophecy  of  R.  Jones  vain,  i  157  ;  of  Brown's,  See  Brown  ;  a  woman's 
prophecy  of  the  king's  coming  in,  i  380  ;  prophecy  of  priefts 
and  profeflbrs  againlt  the  Quakers  vain,  i  148;  falfe  prophecies 
and  falfe  prophets,  i  157 

Prifon  of  G.  F's,  its  badnefs,  ii  54,  59  ;  &  that  of  Scarborough  caftle,  ii  65 

Prifon-keeper  ftruck  with  terror,  i  45  ;  prifoners  many,  i  374;  friends  offer 
their  bodies  one  for  another,  ib.  died  prifoners  i  378,  il  6,  7, 
36,40,42,73,91 

Prifoners  fet  at  liberty  by  the  king,  i  416,  ii  359 

Pirates,  ii  129,  145 

Q„ 

Quakers  firfl:  fo  called,  i  46 

love  to  all  men,  ii  78 
A  Quaker's  upright  verdift,  being  upon  a  jury,  commended  by  the  judge  in 

court,  i  160 
Quakers  principle  dated  to  the  king  by  G.  F.  ii  194,   195 

R 

Rain  fell  after  a  meeting  in  Chefhire,  in  a  great  drought,  i   308 

Ranters  confounded,  i  37,  69,  71,  160,  i6t,  171,  187,  279,  440;  a 
ranting  woman  at  Loo,  ii  22  j  their  wickednefs,  and  the 
judgment  fallen  on  them,  ii  92,  93.  G.  F.  had  a  meeting, 
with  ranters  in  Rhode-Ifland,  ii  150,    151 

Rebellion  and  plots  denied,  ii  342 

Regeneration  mult  be  known,  to  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  God,  ii  389,  to 

393 

Religion  the  reformed  by  tradition,  i  370;  the  true  one  is  the  life  and  pow- 
er of  God,  i  410,  ii  230  ;  th.e  pope's  i  ^<'^^.     See  Papilt 

Repentance  of  fome  that  had  run  out,  ii  8 

goes  before  the  gofpel,  ii  385,  386 

Reports  raifed  of  G.  F.  falfeiy,  i  304,  at  Nailfworth,  ii  107;  of  G.  F. 
and  friends  at  Barbadoes,  ii  138 

Reftitution  made  of  wrong  done,  i  33 

Redoration  out  of  the  fall  into  the  fiate  that  never  fll,  ii  i  ?4 

Revelation  of  John  is  a  fealed  up  book,  faid  the  prielU  to  G.  F.  i  7,  by  re- 
velation  God  is  known,  i  9 

Righteous  men  are  prcfcrvtd  from  deilrmSlioa,  ii  372,  374 

3  «  - 


INDEX. 

Rude  people  at  meetings  and  inns,  i  303 

in  Wales,  i  317,  319 

lit  Manchefter,  i  3^4 

in  Scoiland,  i  3^9 

fellows  by  the  \v;iy  fide,  i  345 

ferving  men  abuiive  to  friends  in  and  out  of  meetings,  1114;  and 
to  women  going  liome,  i  401  ;  fellows  encompalling  G.  F.  by 
the  way,  i  278  ;  rude  prieils,  i  404;    rude  people,  i   431  ; 
ii  27,  89 
Rule  of  life,  li,  187 

s 

Sacrament   of  bread   and  wine,   the    deuial  of  it  objccled   and   anfwered, 

i   285,    287 
Sallce  man  of  war  that  gave  chafe  to  the  vcffel  G.  F.  went  m  to  America, 

his  report  thereof,   ii   129 
Salutation  of  G.   F    to  the  council  of  Edinburgh,  being   had  before  then^, 

i  34' 

Sciiools  fet  up  for  friends  children,  one  at  Waltham  Abbey  for  boys,  ii  88  ; 
and  at  Shackleweil,  another  for  girls,  ibid. 

Scots'  challenging  a  difjiute'  with  friends,  vyere  overthrown,  i  338  ;  a 
Scotch  oificer's  imperious  fayings,  j  339  ;  Scotch  priefts' 
principles,  i  337  ;   curfes,  i  538  ;  blindnefs,  i  339, 

Scriptures  are  the  words,  not  the  word  of  God,  i  124,  262,  and  under-r 
ftood  by  the  Spirit,  i  27,  ii  316;  being  given  forth  by  it,  ii  230 

Scripture-knowledge  without  the  life  vain,  i  9  ;  ii  230 

Seekers  i,  440,  ii  228 

Separation  and  its  fpirit,  a  warning  againll  ir,  ii  2:5  to  218;  jiltuds  a 
libe-rty,  ii  227;  lias  tlie  name  of  truth,  but  not  the  nature, 
ii  227,  240,  24-I,  262,  266,  322,  3O3  ;  uniuiy  fpiiits  at 
Rcadm'^,  ii  252;  in  A^mcrica  G.  F.  had  a  meeting  with 
them,  li  148 

Serpent,  fpeaking  in  people,  i  16 

Serving-men.     See  Rude. 

Selliuns  at  LancaHer,  i  108,  113,  ii  33;  Leiceftcr,  ii  15  ;  Worcefter,  ii 
179,  188  ;   Bodmin,  i  231 

Shaking  of  the  houfe,  G.  F.  praying,  i.  18;  a  meeting  of  friends  was 
greatly  flraken,  i  20  ;  people  fliook,  i  134.    See  Steeple-houfe. 

SherifTof  Lincoln  convinced,  i  159 

Sheriffs  to  be  chofen  by  friends,  fuch  as  they  can  give  their  voices  for,  ii  294 

Shipwrecks  called  God's  grace,  i  390 

Sick  and  affliifled  reflcred.     See  Troubled  in  mind,  and  Miracles 

Sign,  Thomas  Aldam  a  fign  to  O.  Cromwel,  i  380  ;  Robert  Huntingdon, 
i  430;  fome  in  fackcloth  and  aflies,  ii  62,  75  ;  another  before 
the  fire  of  London,  ib.  another  going  naked,  ib.  a  woman  go- 
ing before  the  parliament,  &c.  i  380.  See  Prophecy.  Richard 
(Sale  carrying  a  lanthorn  and  candle,  i  450 

Silent  meeting,  i  76 

Singing  in  the  Spirit  with  a  melodious  found,  i  346 

Sin,  pricfb  preach  up  for  term  of  life,  i  40 

S-p's'tntail  and  original  cut  off,  i  331  ;  jirofeffors  diftingnifh  the  guilt  and 
the  power  of  it,  i  337  ;  and  plead  for  fin,  ii  1B7  ;  fin's  de-. 
ceiifu'iivfs  to  be  waichcJ  a^ainit,  ii  31 1 


INDEX. 

Sirrah,  and  oilier  reproachful  nick-names  given  by  raaglftrates  to  prifoners 
reproved,  ii  38 

sSIander  raifed  by  a  prieft  on  a  meeting  he  was  at,  i  1 24 

Socinians,  i  440 

Soldiers,  one  profFered  G.  F.  to  affifl:  Wm,  x  105  ;  others  were  convinced, 
and  their  wives,  at  meetings,  i  129,  130,  132,  and  at  Cran- 
brook,  i  185  ;  another  draws  his  fword  at  a  friend,  i  232  ; 
fome  could  not  take  the  oath  to  O.  C.  i  151  ;  others  took  it 
and  fell  into  danger,  ibid.  ;  a  foldier's  wicked  faying  of  Chrift, 
i  265  ;  feveral  officers  convinced  in  Scotland,  i  349  ;  fome 
foldiers  ftriking  friends  at  meeting,  i  393  ;  troopers  came  to 
fee  G.  F.  when  prifoner,  ii  64;  foldiers  teftimony  of  him, 
ii  75  ;  lewd  foldiers  in  Germany,  ii  237  ;  blind  men  are  not 
lifted  for  foldiers  (neither  outward  nor  inward)  ii  428 

Somerfet-houfe,  i  380 

Soul,  a  people  holding  that  women  have  no  fouls,  i  7 

Spirit  of  difcerning  in  G.  F.  i  17,  132  ;  the  Spirit  tries  doarines,  i  32, 
33  ;  and  leads  into  all  truth,  i  296  ;  a  meafure  of  it  is  given 
to  every  one,  ii  44  ;  its  fruits,  if  obeyed,  ii  194  ;  a  fpirit  in 
the  fliip  and  in  the  fteeple-houfe,  i  67,  ii  129 

Sports  and  feadings,  i  5 

Sceeple-houfes  and  markets,  truth  preached  in  them,  i  327;  the  found  of 
its  bell  feemed  like  a  market  bell,  i  32,  38  ;  G.  F.  in  the 
fteeple-houfe  at  Beverly  and  Crantfick,  i  66,  67;  Mansfield 
Woodhoufe,  the  people  fail  upon  him,  135;  fteeple-houfe 
fhook,  i  100,  134;  friends  declaring  truth  in  fteeple-houfes, 
i  184,  218,  232  ;  others  admonlQied  the  bowlers,  i  269 

Streets,  truth  preached  in  them,  i  306,  317 

Stone  laid  in  Sion  rejefled,  ii  273  ;  that  became  a  great  mountain,  ii  398 

Stiiinefs,  the  mind  feels  the  principle  of  God  in  it,  i  367 

Students  at  Aberdeen,  fome  convinced,  ii  200 

Sufferings  of  G.  F.  and  friends  for  being  contrary  to  the  world's  ways  and 
cuftoms,  i  30 ;  G.  F.  cruelly  beaten  by  a  clerk  in  the  fteeple- 
houfe,  i  83  ;  by  a  rude  multitude,  i  1 06 ;  banifhed.  See  Banifli- 
ments.      Sufiered  in  bad  prifons,  ii  54,  &c. 

Sufferings  of  friends  for  travelling  about  their  occafions,  i  249  ;  for  going 
to  fteeple-houfes,  5:c.  i  327  ;  laid  before  O.  C.  i  376 

Sufferings  of  friends  at  meetings,  i  378  ;  by  imprifonmenrs,  ib.  ii  6,  62, 
93  ;  and  after  the  monarchy-men's  riling,  i  420;  fome  baniflt- 
ed,  &c.  Dantzick  friends  fufferings,  ii  255,  261,  349,  414 

Swear  not  at  all.  Sec.  ii  57;  friends  not  fwearing  how  difcerned  from  others 
not  fwearing,  ii  98  ;  offices  ferved  by  friends  without  fwear- 
ing, ii  422  ;  juftices  and  jury  forfworn  at  Lancafter  affizes  in 
G.  Fox's  cafe,  ii  53,  57  ;  three  officers  of  the  court  forfworn 
in  tlie  fame  cafe,  ii  60 
Syllogifms  and  Icplnftick  arguments  overthrown,  1  3.JC 


T.ilcnts,  i  299 ;  and  the  ftothful  fcrvant,  II  434 

Talkers,  airy,  i  ic,  229 

Tawneys,     See  Blacks 

Teacher;  Gud  was  the  l^ift  tcacLtr  in  }\'.raJif>.',  ii  J  73 


INDEX. 

Tempeft,  great,  with  thunder  and  rain,  ii  80 

Temples  made  with  hands  God  dwells  not  in,  i  6,  38 

Temptations  to  defpair  upon  G.  F.  i  3,  7,  10  ;  for  the  trial  of  his  faith,  i 
11;  was  under  great  temptations  fometimes,  i  15 

Thee  and  thou  to  a  fingle  perfon,  i  348,  379,  387,  ii  69.      See  Hat. 

Thieves  lying  hid  by  the  highway  in  Scotland,  reproved  by  G.  F.  i  345 

Tithes,  Quakers  cannot  pay,  i  144,  418  ;  great  havock  and  fpoil  made  for 
them  by  priells,  i  200,  428;  fome  imprifoned  to  death  for 
them,  ii  36,  40  ;  friends  to  keep  up  the  teftlmony  againft 
them,  ii  2Z3  ;  tithes  pleaded  for  by  the  priefls,  i  283 

Tongues  and  languages  the  beaft  has  power  over,  i  352 

Toleration  prayed  againft  by  a  pried,  i  431 ;  how  to  ufe  it,  ii  382 

Two  Thirds  in  man,  i  10 

Thrones  on  earth  contended  for,  ii  410 

Tfading  of  friends  increafed,  people  feeing  their  honeft  dealing,  i  149 

TranfgreiTion  of  the  life  of  God,  what  it  leads  to,  i  367,   36S 

Travels  of  G.  F.  into 

1657  Wales,  i  305,   313 

Scotland,   i  335 
1669  Ireland,  ii  loi  to  106 

1 67 1  Barbadoes,  ii   130,    143 
Jamaica,  ii  144 

1672  Maryland,  ii  145 

Eaft  and  Weft  Jerfey,  ii    147,    148 
Long-Iiland,  in  New-England,  ii  148 
Rhode-lfland,  ii  149 
JeVfeys,  ii  154 
Maryland,  ii  156,   157 
Virginia,  ii  159 
Carolina,  ii  160,    161 
Virginia,   ii  162,    163 

1673  Maryland,  ii  163,   167 

Returning  thence  to  England,  he  went  over  to 
1677   Holland,  (Sec.  ii  225,  249 
1684  Holland  and  Friefland,  ii  326,   329 
Trembling  and  quaking  owned,  i  193,    197 
Trials  of  G.  F.  &c.     See  aifize. 

Two  Triers  fent  from  Wales,  both  were  convinced,  1151 
a  pretended  trier  of  fpirits  confounded,  i  184 
a  day  of  trial  is  coming  upon  all,   ii  51  ,342,  406 
Troubles   of  mind  fpokcn  to,  i    34,  367  ;  of  a  woman  in    Maryland,  for 
wliom  G.   F.  intreated   the  Lord,  ii    167;    troubles  upon  a 
trooper  concerning  G.   F.  i  ^^. 
Tnitli  is  honourable,  i   -^C^o  ;  is  peaceable,  ii  2S7  ;   in   unity,  ii  363;  the 

pearl,  ii  384  ;  a  narrative  of  the  fpreading  thereof,  ii  442 
Tumult  of  the  people  at  Brecknock,  i  306 
Turks  and  Turkiih  patroons  give  liberty  of  religion,  ii  417 


Vengeance  is  the  Lord's,  i  43(^) 

Victory  and  overcoming  of  temptations  known,  i  lo 


INDEX. 

Vifion  of  G.  F.  of  a  bear,  &c.  i  84;  of  a  defperate  creature,  i  333  ;  of 
New-England  fuiFerings  to  death,  i  432;  concerning  the 
Turk,  ii  61  ;  of  himfelf  to  be  taken  prifoner,  ii  175  ;  a  Tifion 
in  Ireland,  ii  102  ;  and  in  his  voyage  for  America,  ii  129; 
the  Chrirtians  at  Jerufalem  had  a  vifion  before  its  deftrudlion  ; 
ii  372 

Voice  coming  to  G.  F.  i  9.  See  openings  ;  the  voice  of  the  Lord  to  a 
trooper,  i  55 

Voyages  of  G.  F.  to  Ireland,  ii  101  ;  for  England,  ii  107  ;  to  Barba- 
does,  ii  128  ;  kc. 

W 

Waiting  upon  God,  i  386 

Wales;  the  governor  of  Tenby  mufl:  yield  to  truth,  i  316;  and  maglf- 
trates  in  other  places,  i  319  ;  the  moderation  of  a  town  in 
Wales,  i  320  ;  a  lady  and  her  preacher  fend  for  G.   F.  i  323 

Vfarrants  againft  G.  F.  i  145,  219,  333,  347,  385,  398,  401,  ii  79, 
100,   119;  for  tithes,  ii  288  ;  warrants  again  ft  all  Quakers, 

Wars  and  fightings  denied  by  G.  F.  i  4,  55,  §6,  59,  they  arife  from  the 
lufts  in  the  fall,  i  382  ;  none  to  go  down  to  Egypt  for  help, 
i  384  ;  it  is  not  our  principle,  i  421  ;  but  to  teihfy  againft  it, 
ii  49  ;  and  is  not  becoming  Chriftianity,  ii46i  ;  being  a  work 
of  darknefs,  i  169 

Watches  fet  up  in  the  ftreets  and  highways  in  Cornwall,  &c.  to  flop 
friends  from  travelling,  i  249,   250,  251,   258 

Weaknefs  of  G.  F's  body,  ii  80  ;  by  long  and  clofe  imprifonment,  ii  61, 
200,  379;  by  continual  travail,  ii  222  ;  and  fpent  at  meet- 
ings, &c.  ii  384;  his  health  being  much  impaired,  ii  406;  a 
great  exercife  came  upon  him,  ii  407 

Wicked  man  plagued,  ii  72,   73 

Worfhip,  the  world's,  i  29 

Will-worfhip,  i  264  ;  The  dragon's  and  the  beaft's,  1282;  the  worfliip  in 
the  Spirit,  i  437 

Wrong.     See  Rellitution. 


Yea  and  Nay,  i  2,   148  ;  is  more  binding  than  an  oath  to  many,  ii  57, 
195,  444 


Zeal  againft  unrighteoufrtefs,  many  will  God  provoke  unto,  i  412 


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